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In a television programme on Channel 4 entitled 'Sussex Ups and Downs' which was shown on 19th March 2006, the 'Time Team' archaeologists along with Tony Robinson excavated a site at Blackpatch Hill, west of Finedon, near Worthing, Sussex in their search for Neolithic homes,
The site
was first identified as potentially important between 1920 and 1950 by amateur
archaeologist and geologist John Henry Pull. A huge collection of his
finds including flint axes are now in the Worthing Museum. Tragically John
Pull came to an untimely death, at the age of 61 when he was shot by
an armed robber while working as a security guard at LLoyds Bank, Durrington
Worthing in 1960. John Henry Pull was the uncle of local resident Don
Pull; Don's cousins Beryl Heryet (John's daughter) appears in the programme.
Further Information
'Time-Team Web Site'
Finedon Village Web site
Further reading:
Rough Quarries, Rocks and Hills - John Pull and the Neolithic Flint Mines of Sussex. by Miles Russell
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