Sources and Bibliography

The history on this site is drawn from published primary and secondary sources. Key references are listed below.

Primary Sources

Domesday Book (1086). The original manuscript is held at The National Archives, Kew. The Old Fishbourne entry can be consulted in modern translation through the Open Domesday project.
RIB 91: The Chichester Inscription. The dedicatory inscription of Cogidubnus, set into the wall of Chichester Council House. Published in The Roman Inscriptions of Britain. Available online via romaninscriptionsofbritain.org.
Tacitus, Agricola (c. 98 AD). Chapter 14 contains the reference to Cogidubnus as Rome's "most faithful ally."

A History of the County of Sussex, Volume 4 (1953), ed. L.F. Salzman. Pages 154-156 cover the manor of Old Fishbourne. Available online via British History Online.
A History of the County of Sussex, Volume 4 (1953), ed. L.F. Salzman. Pages 181-188 cover the Hundred of Bosham. Available online via British History Online.

Barry Cunliffe, Excavations at Fishbourne 1961-1969, Vols. I-II, Reports of the Research Committee of the Society of Antiquaries of London, Nos. XXVI-XXVII (1971). The definitive excavation report for Fishbourne Roman Palace.
Barry Cunliffe, Fishbourne Roman Palace (Tempus, 1998). A revised and updated popular account of the palace and its excavation.
John Manley and David Rudkin, Facing the Palace: Excavations in front of the Roman Palace at Fishbourne (Sussex, UK) 1995-99, Sussex Archaeological Collections, Vol. 141 (2003). Report on the later excavation campaigns.
J.E. Bogaers, "King Cogidubnus in Chichester: Another Reading of RIB 91," Britannia 10 (1979). The reinterpretation of the Chichester inscription as "great king of Britain."

William Hudson (ed.), The Three Earliest Subsidies for the County of Sussex 1296, 1327, 1332, Sussex Record Society, Vol. 10 (1910). Records Old Fishbourne within the Hundred of Bosham.