15 16th Century extensive mine workings and the last commercial tin mine operating in Cornwall before closure in 1998. Research studies to re-open the mine are currently ongoing.

12 Ancient stannary town in Devon. Also, the birth town of Sir Francis Drake.

13 Hoard of high-status Roman silver tableware found in Suffolk in 1942.

14 Large neolithic henge monument that also contains part of this Wiltshire village.

9 Castle in Cornwall with a circular keep, overlooking the river Fowey.

10 Roman town where modern day Exeter now exists.

11 Seaside town in Essex, close to where a section of ww2 Mulberry Harbour,(used for the D-Day landings), lays abandoned in the sea.

5 ‘Ship of the Fens’.

6 Castle in Yorkshire. Best-preserved example of an early Norman castle in England.

7 Castle in Dorset. Famously taken by the Parliamentarians in the English civil war after the Bankes family (Royalists), were betrayed.

8 Birth town of Oliver Cromwell.

3 17th Century fort guarding the River Thames close to the site where Elizabeth 1 gave a rallying speech to the army before the expected invasion by the Spanish Armada.

4 Norfolk village at the northern end of Peddars Way. Also the site of Seahenge.

1 Body of water on the south coast where testing was carried out for the bouncing bomb in ww2.

2 Medieval castle in Sussex. Seat of the Duke of Norfolk.

Example answers: Staffordshire hoard (letter S only). Walton on the naze (letter W only).

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From the 1840s, railways brought cheap fish down from the north and just 100 years later, war closed the beach entirely to the fishing trade. Now, no more than a little fishing goes on from the Marina.

Then came Dr Russell, the Prince Regent and fashionable folk . Pressure on housing forced the fishing families to move further inland and to seek work in the more profitable building and service trades. And so the decline went on.

As the town grew, despite some tension between landsmen (market gardeners, agricultural labourers) and fishermen, fishing flourished in the late 16th century. The storms of the early 18th century destroyed the beach and pushed the resident population up into poor housing in the town itself.

Brian took us through the ups and downs of 1,000 years of fishing in Brighton. At the time of the Domesday Book, when the local seas were teeming with fish, the 4,000 herring which the fishermen had to give to the lord of the manor may not have been too tall an order.

Two of the 8 papers directly involve Sussex. One, by Diccon Hart, is about Plumpton Place, the other by Nathalie Cohen (NT) is on 'Moated Sites at National Trust Properties in Kent and Sussex'.

...which combines new research and insights on moated sites in the south-east of England, while considering themes and approaches which can be applied to older excavations.

Overview: Moated sites in South-East England: 21st-century research and insights. The Surrey Archaeological Society Medieval Studies Forum and CBA-SE are pleased to come together for this joint conference...

...and surviving Anglo-Saxon charters, Anglo-Saxon Sussex, Anglo-Saxon dynasties and etymological echoes from the Beowulf story left behind in the landscape of Beddingham, Hamsey, Ringmer, and beyond.

This talk offers a brief outline of the Beowulf story, including the source of the original manuscript and the current academic consensus on it. It will then address some clear errors in interpretation and some fascinating links between the Beowulf Manuscript...

Excavations began in 2017 and finds indicate the main occupation is in the Medieval/Post Medieval period. This talk reviews the excavation findings and how research can shed light on the ownership and use of the site. The question we have been asking is “where’s the pub?”

In his rather febrile existence, Belloc found comfort and repose in his Sussex home, which found its deepest expression in his celebrated Sussex novel The Four Men: A Farrago 1911, a book that describes a 90-mile-long journey on foot across the English county of Sussex.