In February 1999 Time Team broadcast a programme from Beauport Park in Sussex. In the 1960’s An amateur archaeologist – Gerald Brodribb had excavated here after finding a reference on an old map of a ‘site of Roman Bloomery’. After three years of finding pottery and road surfaces he found masonry close to the surface using divining rods. This turned out to be a rare example of a Roman Bath house with its walls still standing and was fully excavated in the early 1970’s. This site is now fully scheduled as an Ancient Monument and lies on private land . |