Spring Talk: Simon Stevens – Fall In, Ghosts – Archaeological Investigations at the Training Camp at Cooden, East Sussex
7.30pm
Online via Zoom
Spring Talk: Simon Stevens
Fall In, Ghosts – Archaeological Investigations at the Training Camp at Cooden, East Sussex
Join us for an online evening talk to hear about the excavations of the Military Camp at Cooden, East Sussex. Simon Stevens will tell the moving story of how the last days of training of soldiers destined for the front in the First World War were pieced together by modern field archaeology.
Opened in September 1914, Cooden Camp was used throughout the First World War. It trained the Sussex soldiers who were involved in The Battle of the Boar’s Head at Richebourg-I’Avoué in France on 30 June 1916, when the three battalions would suffer some 1,100 casualties.
Prior to a housing development on part of the former camp, full-scale archaeological excavation between September 2024 and January 2025 revealed a variety of archaeological deposits and artefacts relating to day-to-day life at Cooden Camp.
More about the speaker
Simon Stevens is a Senior Archaeologist at Archaeology South-East and is the Vice Chair of the Wealden Iron Research Group. Sussex born-and-bred, he has been digging holes in the county and beyond for over 30 years.
More about the event
Date: Tuesday 3 February
Time: 7.30pm
Location: Online via Zoom
Tickets: Free for Members of The Sussex Archaeological Society or £5 for non-members.
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