Surrey Archaeological Society

Evaluation by trial trenching carried out by S P Dyer for SCAU and Epsom & Ewell Borough Council failed to locate anything of archaeological interest, although a Hundred boundary was thought to run across the area. (279)

Observation by G R Pattison and P M G Jones for SCAU of trench cutting for cable TV revealed part of an Anglo-Saxon inhumation with possible grave goods including an iron spearhead and fragments of a pot with rosette stamps. Other finds from the general area included one probably IA sherd, various fragments of RB pottery, mostly 4th century, and some further fragments of Anglo-Saxon pottery.

Monitoring of road improvement scheme by S P Dyer for SCAU revealed nothing of archaeological interest. (278)

Correction to report in SyAC 80 (for 1988-89): E Crossland points out that in the even the did not carry out site watching at this site. It was however subsequently evaluated by trial trenching by S P Dyer for SCAU and Elmbridge Borough Council, but nothing of archaeological interest was found except one indeterminate struck flint scraper. (279)

Evaluation by trial trenching by S P Dyer for SCAU and SCC revealed no archaeological features and only one prehistoric struck flint flake. (278)

Evaluation by trial trenching prior to redevelopment, by P M G Jones of SCAU for Croudace Homes, revealed no archaeological features.

Observation of trenches dug to prevent occupation of the site and of foundation work by S P Dyer for SCAU and Homebase Ltd produced five struck flints of Mesolithic or early Neolithic type; no features were located but the flints are thought to indicate a nearby site (279)

Site watching on construction of a new house, by Rob Poulton of SCAU for Fromson Construction Co Canada, did not locate anything of archaeological interest in an area immediately adjacent to the hillfort.

Evaluation by trial trenching carried out by S P Dyer for SCAU and Barratt Homes failed to locate anything of archaeological interest. There was no surviving evidence for the historic landscape known from map evidence. (279)