History & Archaeology
The Sompting Estate is a fascinating historic landscape. The Scheduled Ancient Monument area on Park Brow was the place where, in the 1920s, archaeologists first came to recognize how the now quiet landscape of the South Downs was densely populated and farmed in prehistoric down to Romano-British times. The land reveals evidence of medieval and post-medieval farming with equally fascinating changes through to modern times.
As this site is developed you will find here articles on Fossils and Prehistory of Sompting and the South Down; Sompting through the ages; the ancient hills - Park Brow, Cissbury, Chanctonbury; old field and place names; Sompting Village; the Sompting Estate; flint Walls and Buildings; Sompting in old photographs.
In the meantime the following links are offered as examples where information can be found:
National Monuments Record - search eg for sites in Sompting, Sussex or Hampshire
Lancing & Sompting Pastfinders
Worthing Archaeological Society Field Unit