ARCHAEOLOGY

Friend? Roman? Countryman?

field in North Bersted, West Sussex, was crisscrossed with a multitude of trenches, but when Chichester District Council archaeologist James Kenny arrived, excavators led him directly to the corner of a large area where they were at work uncovering a burial that dated to some 2,000 years ago. “This was the first burial of an Iron Age

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