Banstead Heath

Evaluation by T Howe for SyAS on a number of features identified during research by the Plateau Group. The location of an L-shaped enclosure ditch was confirmed by excavation. The ditch was found to have originated as a roughly V-shaped feature, approximately 1.8m wide on the surface and about 0.7m deep. In one trench, it was found to have been recut on at least one occasion; following silting up of the ditch the boundary was apparently perpetuated with a fence line evidence for which was represented by two postholes. The supposed site of a series of circular enclosures was also examined but the area was found to be heavily plough damaged, leaving only indeterminate scatters of flint rubble. No evidence was seen for the bloomeries postulated by previous research. (353)
Year: 
2001
ID: 
808
NGR: 
TQ235535