Surrey Archaeological Society

Excavation by M.G. O'Connell for SyAS and DOE located an Early/Middle BA ditch, a LBA ditch containing a 78 piece bronze hoard (including a variety of weapons, tools, vessels, and ornamental attachments, and much pottery in the levels above), two parallel RB ditches (one a palisade trench?) probably of the later first century and part of a RB roadside ditch containing a coin of Constantine, part of a medieval ditch containing 12th century pottery and bone, and several later features. (138) Excavation was also continued on one part of the site by D.M.

Trial excavation by D.M. Longley for SyAS and DOE revealed only one sherd of RB pottery and no features.

Aerial photographs and ground survey by R.L. Ellaby revealed two dark soil marks with occupation debris, probably a 13th/14th century farm complex. (143)

Trial excavation (1977) by D.W. Williams for Holmesdale Archaeological Group, Reigate and Banstead Archaeological Co-ordination Committee and SyAS revealed features of 12th century date, and later medieval and more modern features. Further excavation by D.W. Williams and by D.G. Bird for SyAS and DOE revealed a large part of the plan of the medieval and later vicarage. (140 and 151)

Excavation by D.W. Williams for Holmesdale Archaeological Group and SyAS (second season, 1975-6) located part of a 13th century building probably demolished in the 16th century, cut by a well or soakaway filled in in the 17th century, and an 18th century pit. South of this building was a revetted ditch filled in probably in the early 14th century, and traces of a possible outbuilding demolished in the 16th century. Other late finds were made. (128)

Excavation by D.W. Williams for Holmesdale Archaeological Group and Reigate and Banstead Archaeological Co-ordination Committee located a possible stream or ditch, probably the boundary between town and Priory. It was backfilled in one operation c1590. (133) (See also above, pp 175-90)

Excavation by M.G. O'Connell for SyAS and DOE (reported Jan 1976) located only modern disturbance over the natural subsoil. (123)

Excavation by R.L. Ellaby for Holmesdale Archaeological Group and SyAS (reported Feb 1976) revealed a large mass of Mesolithic flints in soil redeposited over a 13th century site containing two firepits. (124)

Excavation by Rosamond Hanworth for SyAS and DOE located the course of Stane Street as a terrace cut into the chalk, possibly by the use of a plough (check SyAC 94).

Excavation (in 1953/4) by J.A. Alexander on the supposed line of Stane Street revealed no trace of road metalling. (124)