Mole Valley

Ashtead Common villa and tileworks, Ashtead

Evaluation and excavation by D Bird for the Roman Studies Group of SyAS, as part of a wider programme of work designed to gather together and reassess all available information of the villa site excavated by Lowther in the 1920s, and accompanying clay pits and tileworks surveyed and excavated by J Hampton in the 1960s. The work located the site of the villa, and a trench close to its frontage located the approach road to the villa. Two spoil heaps near the villa, and a spoil heap for the detached bath-house, together with the general location of this building, were also found.

St Giles’ church, Ashtead

Evaluation by G Hayman of SCAU to provide information to inform management decisions regarding the Scheduled earthworks in the church graveyard, specifically in relation to a proposal to extend the graveyard. The evaluation involved the excavation of a trench in the area immediately to the north of a substantial, partially infilled ditch. This was in use during the medieval period but follows, at least in part, the course of a smaller ditch of Roman or earlier origin which lies immediately to the north of the site of a Roman building.

Denbies Wine Estate, Dorking

Excavation by A Hall of SyAS of a number of trenches and test pits on and near the alignment of Stane Street proposed by I D Margary. One of the trenches was located on an anomaly identified during a resistivity survey by A and D Graham of SyAS. No evidence of the road was revealed, but a post-medieval surface possibly associated with an old tollgate at ‘Gyles Green’ was exposed. (395)

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