Bronze Age sickle or reed hook at Shinewater Park, Eastbourne, UK
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Bronze sickle or reed hook as found beneath a Late Bronze Age wetland platform at Shinewater Park, Eastbourne, UK. The sickle was conserved by a Belgian conservation student at the UCL Institute of Archaeology and is now in the British Museum.
The platform site, which was scheduled in 2012, was exposed during landscaping work conducted by Eastbourne Borough Council for flood alleviation. Personal pleas to Geofrey Wainwright of English Heritage for money for its excavation by the late senior Sussex archaeologist, Peter Drewett were rejected on the grounds that it was a PPG16 "cock up" (Peter Drewett pers. comm.) (PPG16 was a planning and policy guidance note issued by the UK Government to advise
local planning authorities in England and Wales on the treatment of
archaeology within the planning process), and the site was never excavated. At the time of its discovery it was the best preserved British Bronze Age site known, but\u2014its anaerobic environment having been breached\u2014it is now probably in decay, dispite (2008) claims by a spokesperson for East Sussex County Council that the site is "secure", and references in the 2012 scheduling note that "the survival of timbers and artefacts within the wet conditions of the Shinewater Park is very good."
local planning authorities in England and Wales on the treatment of
archaeology within the planning process), and the site was never excavated. At the time of its discovery it was the best preserved British Bronze Age site known, but\u2014its anaerobic environment having been breached\u2014it is now probably in decay, dispite (2008) claims by a spokesperson for East Sussex County Council that the site is "secure", and references in the 2012 scheduling note that "the survival of timbers and artefacts within the wet conditions of the Shinewater Park is very good."
Mike Seager Thomas worked as archaeolgical supervisor on the archaeological evaluation of the site in 1995.
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