Bor'mer, laid open what is deemed evidently to have been a Roman cemetery, from the objects found there, such as various urns and other fictile vessels, a few coins, a fibula, &c. The ground exhibited no exterior indications of interments having taken place here.
49. Burpham.—See the Note on Bargham. In (A.D. 1291) the church of this place occurs under one head, and the vicar under another totally different.
50. Burton.—Called "Bodeghtone" in (A.D. 1291); and in (Val. Eccl.) "Bodington alias Bodicton cum Cootes, R."—The church was partly rebuilt in the seventeenth century by injunction from the Archbishop of Canterbury, but no service has been performed for a long period." There are several altar-tombs of Sussex marble, inlaid with brasses, and numerous inscriptions, to the memory of individuals of the knightly family of Goring; and under a niche, with quatrefoils and plain escutcheons, is a small female figure, recumbent, carved in Caen stone, but no inscription remains." (Horsfield's Suss. II, 172.)
51. Burwash.—Spelled "Burgherss" in (A.D. 1291), in the (Nonæ Roll) "Burgherssh." An iron grave-slab in Burwash church, of the fourteenth century, is figured and described (Suss. Arch. Coll. II, 178). Not far from the village southwards is a respectable old house, called Bateman's, now a farm-house. It is stated to have been erected about A.D. 1620. (Horsfield's Suss. I, 578.)
52. Buxted.—Here is a large sandstone church, comprising chancel, nave with north and south aisles; the former having a chapel at the east end, and the latter extending partly up the chancel, though the eastern end is now separated from the remainder; north and south porches; the first Perp., the latter modern; and western tower with shingled spire. The building is generally E.E. with Dec. and Perp. windows inserted, that in the east end being Dec. The chancel contains a rich, but mutilated, piscina with a crocketed canopy, and near it is a similarly ornamented arch, apparently for a tomb, though none is now visible beneath. The north chancel has a piscina. The font is square, resting on five columns, of the same style as the church. Brass, in the chancel, Britellus Avenel, rector, a small figure in the upper part of a cross fleury, dating about 1375. (Monum. Brasses, 115.) Over the entrance of the north porch is a very small figure carved in sandstone of a woman holding a large churn, supposed to be intended for a pun upon the name of
