Blickmead Mesolithic site
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Professor David Jacques will be speaking about the important Mesolithic site at Blickmead and its place in the Stonehenge landscape.
All welcome: £3
Prehistoric
Wrap a Mummy
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Spend time learning about the art of ancient Egypt and have fun wrapping mummies and carving hieroglyphs.
Two sessions: 10.30 - 12.00 and 13.00 - 14.30
£8 per child with £1 sibling discount.
Spaces limited so booking is essential.
Contact:dbrooks@epsom-ewell.gov.uk
Analytic survey of prehistoric barrows
Mounds on Reigate Heath scheduled as prehistoric burial mounds, and one other potential barrow, have been subjected to analytical survey and their landscape context examined.
The attached pdf is the full report of this work of which a paper is published in the Surrey Archaeological Society Collections.
Heritage Open Day at Abinger
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The Abinger Research Centre and Library, situated in the former Abinger Hammer Village School, will be open to all for a special Heritage Open Day event.
Members of the Society will be set-up with displays featuring work and artefact displays from all periods, with opportunities to observe or take part in various activities, including environmental processing. The Library will be open and available for browsing or for research queries, and the new County Finds Liaison Officer will also be set-up and eager to meet with visitors.
43 Waverley Lane, Farnham
Evaluation by R Lambert of SCAU revealed a post- medieval boundary ditch that was also visible on historic maps of the area, and a small quantity of worked flint of mixed Mesolithic-Bronze Age dates.
Junction of A25 and Oxted Road, Godstone
Programme of work comprising a soil stripping, mapping and sampling exercise, watching brief, and trial pit excavation, by A Simmonds of OAS. The initial approach for the stripping, mapping and sampling across the entire site was modified during the course of the work to one designed to preserve deposits in situ across much of it. This followed the discovery that a significant depth of colluvial deposits overlay the archaeological horizons.
North Park Farm Quarry, Bletchingley
Three further phases of excavation by P Jones and R Lambert of SCAU adjacent to areas previously investigated. The first phase undertaken in the summer of 2011 was to the immediate west of the area investigated in 2009. The range and character of the archaeological features present were closely similar to those identified in 2009. The features included three Mesolithic pits (which were 100% sampled and sieved for flintwork), an early medieval pit oddly sited out on the Gault clay, and a continuation of the late medieval/ early post-medieval roadway identified during the work in 2005.
Oaklands Hospital, Chaldon Road, Caterham
Evaluation by S Stevens of ASE recovered a single flint flake from the topsoil of one of the trenches.
Hawthorns School, Pendell Court, Bletchingley
Completion of watching brief begun in 2010 by N Randall of SCAU that revealed a series of broad ditches that may represent land boundaries pre-dating the construction of Pendell Court on the site in c1624, and finds of Mesolithic, Neolithic or Bronze Age, Iron Age, Roman, medieval and post-medieval date.
Mercers Farm South, Nutfield Marsh Road, near Nutfield
Geophysical survey by J Adcock of GSB Prospection Ltd and two phases of evaluation by V Hughes and S Leech of OAS of an area proposed for mineral extraction. The geophysics revealed a series of linear anomalies that may be small enclosures; strong responses that suggest the presence of fired materials or ferrous-rich deposits, and numerous linear trends thought to be of agricultural origin.
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