Surrey Archaeological Society

Excavation by D W Williams on the site of buildings shown on the 1634 map. One was located although nothing was found datable to before c1750; a shallow gully with Saxo-Norman pottery was also found. (213)

Excavation by D W Williams in the partly demolished 17th century barn adjacent to the parish church. In the northern half of the excavation was a deep feature over 5m wide, probably a former watercourse, with a fill of several layers: firstly 1m of silt with a few struck flakes, then the articulated but headless remains of an ox, then silt with 11th/12th century pottery and bone, then layers of debris including a 13th century roof tile dump. All were cut by a pit or ditch roughly revetted with flint, stone and tile and having roof tile in its fill.

Site watching by L Le Monde followed by excavation by R J Poulton for SCC and Esso Petroleum Ltd in advance of redevelopment. A Saxon cemetery was partially excavated, producing burials in two groups. The first was of 17 pagan Saxon inhumations of the 6tir--7th centuries with grave goods including two spearheads, a bone comb and a cowrie shell. The second group was a number of more careless burials with evidence suggesting a late Saxon execution site. (208)

Trial work in advance of development was continued by Vivien Ettlinger and J L Gower for SyAS and SRVSG. Only unstratified finds were made, of daub and a few RB and medieval sherds. (209)

Systematic fieldwalking of Mesolithic site by members of LTRG recovered some 12,000 pieces of material, mostly flint waste. There were 195 tools, of which 25 were microliths of mixed types. (219; see report in this volume)

Excavation by D .1 Field for LTRG of a further defence section. It again showed a feature like a ditch terminal; possibly the ditch is discontinuous. A sample of the initial fill was dated to the mid 1st century AID by A.1 Clark. (206)

Observation by Ann Watson of the laying of drainage pipes in the field to the north of the church; nothing of archaeological interest noted.

Testing of sub-floor levels by D G Bird for SCC and Guildford Group of SyAS in advance of reflooring. No archaeologically significant features were noted except for the possible remains of a wall along the line of the north aisle columns. The lower part of the north wall interior–made of reused material including window mouldings – was recorded by photography.

Excavation by Barbara Blatchford, G Hayes and Audrey Monk for Guildford Group of SyAS in advance of redevelopment of a site on the west bank of the Wey; small deep trenches suggested that the Park Street frontage had been in use since the 13th/14th century while there was no occupation closer to the river as the area was clearly subject to flooding. (217)

Following the discovery of tunnels in the chalk at Langton Priory (SIHG 17), similar features have been found in the locality at Weygate. (SIHG 28)