Birling Gap/ Belle Tout well shaft
Ian Blair
21 August 2015
The recent launch of CITiZAN, the Coastal and Intertidal Zone Archaeological Network, brought to mind a very vivid illustration of a single feature exposed by coastal erosion, which I had seen whilst working on sites around Sussex prior to joining the DUA.
Unfortunately, the feature is not dated but it has been suggested that it is possibly Roman or post Roman based on its ‘construction’ features but possibly Iron Age or earlier based on the fact that nothing later than the Iron Age has been found in the area.
I am grateful to my friend David Freke for providing the photos of the shaft which have also been passed across to the CITiZAN team for inclusion in their ever expanding database.
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