Surrey Archaeological Society

Dendrochronolgy of timbers from three buildings at this farm (the house, the South Barn and the East Barn) was carried out by M C Bridge, for the Ancient Monuments Laboratory. The trees for the primary base-cruck of the house were felled in AD 1351; oaks used in a second range were most likely felled in the period AD 1488-1507. These were contemporaneous with the East Barn (AD 1484-1491). New framing, incorporating a large entrance door, was added to the east side of the house from trees probably felled in AD 1574-1603; trees for a rear range were felled in AD 1639.

Watching brief carried out by R Poulton of SCAU, for the City of London Freemen’s School, revealed no features and finds of archaeological interest. This followed an evaluation conducted in 1997 which produced similarly negative results.

Evaluation by D Divers of PCA, for Laing Homes South Thames, in advance of residential development of a site on the projected route of the branch road from Stane Street to the Ashtead villa. The trench revealed modern deposits overlying the London Clay and no features or finds of archaeological interest.

Survey of the archaeological and historic landscape of the Downs by C Currie of CKC Archaeology, for SCC and SyAS, with reference to them being proposed as Areas of Historic Landscape. The work is ongoing and is being carried out as part of the Community Archaeological Programme. A number of archaeological features were discovered and recorded including a group of possible Bronze Age barrows in an area recently cleared of woodland cover, and a deserted medieval hamlet formerly known as Poneshurst.

Evaluation by J Robertson of SCAU, for Cala Homes (South) Ltd, in advance of residential development revealed no archaeological features or finds.

Evaluation by R Poulton of SCAU, for R Williams and Associates, of an area to be landscaped. No features or finds of archaeological interest were revealed despite the lack of previous disturbance.

Evaluation by R Poulton of SCAU, for Stonecot Homes Ltd, revealed no features or finds of archaeological interest.

Evaluation by S Hoad of MoLAS, for Palace Street Leatherhead Limited, in advance of residential development. The five trenches excavated revealed that the entire site had been truncated by modern excavation.

Evaluation by K Ritchie of Wessex, for Frogmore Developments Ltd, of fields to the east of the National Grid Research Laboratories, in advance of office development. No archaeological features or finds were recovered, but the site had clearly undergone extensive disturbance in the recent past, essentially destroying it in archaeological terms.

Evaluation by R Poulton of SCAU, for Countryside Residential (South Thames) Ltd. No features of archaeological interest were revealed, although a single sherd of 13th century pottery was recovered.