Surrey Archaeological Society

Watching brief by N Shaikhley of SCAU during the excavation of five geotechnical test pits. No finds or features of archaeological interest were revealed.

Evaluation by J Perry of SutAS revealed a ditch of unknown but probably modern date

Evaluation by E Sayer of PCA in advance of residential redevelopment revealed the impacts of 19th and early 20th century development, but no older deposits were found relating to the farm complex present on the site since the early 17th century.

Evaluation by R Lambert of SCAU in advance of school development revealed three 19th century pits and a single struck flint.

Evaluation and monitoring of ground reduction by S Maher of PCA revealed no finds or features of archaeological interest.

Archaeological assessment by N Bannister for the Woodlands Trust of secondary woodland on a former site of Knaphill Nursery, a late 19th century internationally renowned commercial nursery. The most common earthworks revealed were boundary banks, the structure and form of which suggest that they originated as field boundaries. Depressions occurring within the wood may be bomb craters.

Evaluation by G Hayman of SCAU in advance of the construction of a new school revealed residual stray flints of possible Neolithic date and a sherd of Late Roman pottery, but no features of archaeological interest.

Report on an archaeological assessment undertaken in 2003 by N Bannister for the Woodlands Trust. Because the wood was probably managed as a wood pasture common (where manorial tenants could graze stock beneath an open canopy of pollarded trees and where there was little need for wood banks dividing the property of different woodland owners), and because of levelling for and laying out of a munitions store located here during the Second World War, few features of antiquity exist.

Evaluation by S Hoad of MoLAS in advance of the construction of a new community hall on the site of the graveyard in use between 1868 and the late 1920s revealed two grave cuts (which were not excavated) dating to the late 19th century.

Watching brief by J Robertson of SCAU during redevelopment revealed an in-situ layer producing a domestic pottery assemblage of late 13th/early 14th century, fragments of tile, charcoal and animal bone, and a struck flint flake, beneath a 19th century topsoil containing late 19th century domestic debris.