Farleigh Court Golf Course, near Warlingham

Excavation by G Hayman of SCAU for Kajima UK Engineering Ltd, followed on from an evaluation programme involving fieldwalking, geophysics and trial trenching of an area to be developed as a golf course. The evaluation revealed a variety of features of Late Iron Age to Early Roman date. The excavation confirmed these findings, producing evidence for an irregular enclosure containing gullies, pits and postholes as well as two possible hearths. The majority of these features appear to be of 1st to 2nd century date, with some dating to the 3rd to 4th centuries. A small square structure of unknown purpose, constructed of chalk, flint and greensand, cut the enclosure ditch, clearly representing a later, though still Roman, phase of activity. An adjacent area revealed twelve to fifteen cremations, mostly contained within vessels, some with grave goods. The cemetery appears to have been used between the 1st century BC and the 2nd century AD. (299)
Year: 
1994-5
ID: 
1500
NGR: 
TQ370606
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