Surrey Archaeological Society

Survey by Plateau of a 19th century soft water collection, filtration and reservoir complex, originally built to serve Nork House.

Excavation by Plateau to investigate the site of a building shown on the 1819 estate plan, which may have been the medieval church of Burgh. A small trench revealed a chalk floor resting above a pebble floor, of either medieval or post-medieval date.

Survey undertaken under the direction of C Currie of CKCA, as part of the Community Archaeology Project for SCC and SyAS, to assess whether the study area was suitable for designation as an ASHLV. Both documentary research and fieldwork added greatly to existing knowledge of the area, and highlighted the presence of a range of archaeological remains dating from the Palaeolithic through to the Second World War.

Evaluation by T Howe for SyAS on a number of features identified during research by the Plateau Group. The location of an L-shaped enclosure ditch was confirmed by excavation. The ditch was found to have originated as a roughly V-shaped feature, approximately 1.8m wide on the surface and about 0.7m deep. In one trench, it was found to have been recut on at least one occasion; following silting up of the ditch the boundary was apparently perpetuated with a fence line evidence for which was represented by two postholes.

Watching brief by P Harp of Plateau recorded three dumps of Romano-British material recently redeposited from Walton Heath villa, comprising approximately 300 tesserae, several sherds of terra sigillata, Pompeian redware, Alice Holt-type pottery and numerous tile fragments, some of which were relief patterned.

Survey by Plateau of Karstic features, recorded 65 solution hollows. Those on Banstead Heath were mostly infilled during the 20th century, while many of those on Walton Heath have been incorporated into the golf course.

A sketch survey, fieldwalking and a programme of metal detecting carried out and overseen by D Williams of a medieval site excavated, but not written up, in 1972. Apart from two Bronze Age sherds, the material recovered mostly dates from the medieval period onwards. The site appears to consist of one building, at least partly of stone construction under a tiled roof, and it is possible that it may be connected in some way with a possible stone quarry that lies c 400m to the north. (356)

Evaluation by B Sharma of GAP prior to residential and commercial redevelopment. No evidence of activity dating to earlier than the latter part of the 19th century was observed.

Watching brief by P Sowan of SIHG during the emptying of the contents of two flare kilns and one Dietzsch kiln chamber. (SIHG 123)