South East England Culture History and Archaeology

Culture history, archaeological sites, and other information related to the past of South East England, including the counties of Kent, East Sussex, West Sussex, Surrey, Berkshire, Hampshire, Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and greater London.

Museum of London - Home
The Museum of London have conducted several fascinating studies within London's limits (and elsewhere).

Belle Tout (Sussex)
Bournemouth University, continues nearly 200 years study of this Neolithic and Bronze age site in Sussex.

Bignor Village
Roman villa in the South Downs of Sussex; site description, images of the mosaics, and visitor's data from Pyrrha.

Boxgrove (West Sussex)
The Boxgrove site is a Middle Stone Age site located in a stone quarry in West Sussex England.

Boxgrove
One of the earliest human sites in Western Europe is Boxgrove in Sussex; this private site is maintained by Matthew Pope, one of the directors of the University College London project.

Canterbury Cathedral (Kent)
The Canterbury Cathedral is probably among the most famous church edifices in the world, partly because of its famous archbishops including St. Augustine, Thomas Cranmer, and Thomas Becket

Council for Kentish Archaeology
Provides a wealth of data about archaeological sites, events, and archaeologists in Kent.

Fishbourne Palace
Roman palace built during the 1st century AD, in Sussex. A page from SussexPast.

Map of South East England
From Pictures of England.com, a map for southeastern England, and some information about historic places there.

Nomads, Settlers and Invaders
From the Dartfort Town Archive, a brief history and prehistory of the Dartford Area.

Rollright Stones
Archaeology, mythology, aliens of these megalithic stone circle near Oxford; this web site covers all the bases; from the Friends of the Rollright Stones.

Sussex Past
The website of the Sussex Archaeological Society, called Sussex Past, has loads of regional information about archaeology in Sussex.

The Yarnton Project
Archaeological investigations in Yarnton were conducted by Oxford University for a decade or so, and the website has lots of information about the Saxon, medieval, Iron Age, Roman, Neolithic, and Bronze Age occupations.

Trust for Thanet Archaeology
A Charitable Trust that provides commercial archaeological services in the Thanet area as well as maintaining a Thanet Sites and Monuments Register.

Wessex Archaeology
Wessex Archaeology is a commercial archaeology firm that conducts work in the region, and has a substantial public outreach program.

Wolstonbury
Bournemouth University, Neolithic and Bronze Age enclosures of the Sussex chalklands

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