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Balsdean

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Roman occupation of the neighbourhood has been recorded by two notable finds. In 1757 a Roman dagger was found in a tumulus at Balsdean. In 1798 a stoneware urn or jar was unearthed, containing upwards of a thousand Roman copper coins. Some were faintly plated, or washed, with silver, and they were
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so little damaged that their relief remained perfectly sharp. Therefore, they could not have been much, if at all, in circulation. They were of the time of Valerian, who reigned AD 225, Gallienus, Claudius, Quintilius, Posthumus, Victorinus, Marius, and Tetricus.
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There is a modern farm named after the original Balsdean Farm on the fringe of Rottingdean, and from there most of the ancient farmlands of Balsdean are still worked. Part of the original sheepdown is now protected by the
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in the early nineteenth century: by the twentieth century it had become uninhabited. Balsdean Manor house and two workers' cottages were inhabited until the
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chapel by then used as a barn, were never rebuilt and the people never returned. The only building still remaining is a derelict post-war barn complex.
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An Anglo-Saxon barrow cemetery consisting of 27 early Anglo-Saxon barrows have been recorded in the vicinity of the Bronze Age cemetery on The Bostle.
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The valley of Balsdean is the most reliable migration stopover in Sussex of the rare Arctic and high mountain breeding wader the
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Balsdean was a hamlet, which consisted of two farms, Norton and Sutton, more generally known as Norton and Balsdean.
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Newmarket Hill: Exploring the natural and local history of the South Downs between Brighton and Lewes
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cemetery consisting of a group of three large Bronze Barrows, with other barrows located nearby.
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Deeley, Frank (October 1926). "Balsdean: Its Past and Future".
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fields are thought to resemble its mountain breeding grounds.
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The nearby hill known as the Bostle is the site of a
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Index

50°49′12″N 0°02′46″W / 50.820°N 0.046°W / 50.820; -0.046

deserted hamlet
downland
Brighton
East Sussex
Rottingdean
Brighton and Hove
dotterel
flinty
Bronze Age
lunatic asylum
Second World War
Allied
artillery
medieval
Castle Hill
Site of Special Scientific Interest
Woodingdean


"Archaeological investigations at The Bostle, Bronze Age and Anglo-Saxon barrow cemeteries, Balsdean, East Sussex, 1997"
doi
10.5284/1085580


"Roedean and Rottingdean | Balsdean"
the original
Newmarket Hill: Exploring the natural and local history of the South Downs between Brighton and Lewes

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