Guildford

St Catherine’s Lock, Artington

A watching brief was maintained by C Currie of CKC Archaeology on repair work to this lock on the Godalming Navigation, for the National Trust. Early, possibly original, brickwork was revealed around the gates of the lock. The southern cill was of brick with stone blocks on the outward edge, possibly to act as protection; the northern cill was of wood, covered by modern concrete. The lock chamber itself is now concrete, but was originally of timber. (330)

Artington Cold Store, Guildford

Survey carried out by SIHG at the request of Guildford Museum prior to demolition of the structure. The store was built at the beginning of World War II for emergency food storage. A freezer wind tunnel later installed at the site was used to simulate flight into supercooled liquid droplets and ice crystals, and aircraft tested in this way included the Airbus and Concorde.

Manor Farm, Guildford

Resistivity survey following on from fieldwalking in 1997 located several linear features, and two small trenches were excavated by H Davies and J English and the GfdAG to investigate their nature. The features proved to be three ditches, seemingly parallel, and a small extension to one of the trenches located a short length of probable wall footing of large flint nodules keyed together but not mortared and cut into the ditch siltings.

Eashing Mill, Lower Eashing

A watching brief maintained by R Poulton and S Hind of SCAU, for Richard Cook Ltd, on the redevelopment of this 19th century mill site for offices, revealed no evidence for earlier mills; the area was found to have been fairly extensively disturbed as a result of 19th and 20th century works. However, palaeo-environmental analysis of sediments in former channels of the Wey, uncovered by the works, revealed evidence for increasing human activity in the vicinity from the Bronze Age onwards, with a commensurate reduction in the amount of woodland in the area.

Hopeless Moor, Seale

Training excavation by S Dyer, for SyAS, on land where investigations in 1939 revealed two phases of medieval buildings and a kiln. The location of the earlier excavation as well as other features were suggested by topographical and geophysical surveys. A strong magnetic anomaly proved to be the location of the kiln recorded in 1939, and the recovery of significant quantities of brick and tile suggest that the kiln produced both these types of building material, probably in the early post-medieval period.

Ash Ranges

Rapid walkover survey directed by J English of SyAS as part of the SCC heathland project. Two areas were examined. In the northern area, close to Mytchett Gate, a series of small banks were identified, which may be the remains of a field system, potentially of some antiquity. Other identified features included possible tracks or tree lines, a number of banks and lynchetts, and two parish boundaries. The southern area at Wyke Common also contained a number of banks, together with an earthwork “fort” of modern date, and evidence for gravel quarrying.

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