Goldsworth playing fields, Parley Brook, Woking

Fieldwork carried out by W Mills with volunteer assistance under the overall direction of R Savage of SyAS to investigate any surviving contexts related to the discovery during fieldwalking in the 1920s and 30s of the Late Upper Palaeolithic flint blades now held in the British Museum as the Lawson Collection. Two transects of auger holes indicated the survival in parts of the site of late Ice Age soil horizons, but not close to the site of the flint discoveries. Two 1m2 test pits excavated closer to the original find spot indicated that ploughing had disturbed any prehistoric levels, but confirmed the presence of worked flint, including a core and broken blade of either late glacial or Mesolithic date together with undiagnostic debitage, in the plough-soil.
Year: 
2011-12
ID: 
2698
NGR: 
SU982595
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