Surrey Archaeological Society

Report on the loss of a Second World War pillbox by SyAS. The feature was demolished during construction work at the site.

Evaluation by R Lambert of SCAU prior to the construction of a series of new school buildings revealed a number of features, including a concentrated in-situ scatter of Bronze Age pottery and struck and burnt flint of considerable interest. The wider area of the site revealed further Bronze Age features such as ditches and a number of undated features of a possibly similar date. Roman activity was also recorded in the form of ditches and pits, although the concentration of features was not dense, suggesting outlying activity related to an as yet unspecified site elsewhere in the vicinity.

Examination of bones discovered during renovation works by E Brants and T Howe of SCC. The bones were found to be animal rather than human, probably originating from a post-medieval pit below the foundations of the structure that had been disturbed by the works.

Watching brief and photographic survey by N Shaikhley and G Pattison of SCAU during works to repair and consolidate the roof structure. Water ingress having proved to be problematic for some years, the decision was taken to almost completely remove the earth bank covering the fort and undertake comprehensive repairs, which gave access to the exterior of the fort structure for the first time since its initial construction

Watching brief by A Weale of TVAS during works on the construction of new sports pitches for the University of Surrey. A small number of postholes and pits containing pottery of a Middle–Late Bronze Age date were revealed, together with environmental evidence and charcoal fragments, which radiocarbon dating indicated was deposited around 1416–1292 BC. A medieval ditch was also recorded, running through the centre of the site. See TVAS monograph 11

Second season of excavation led by H Sheldon of BC and J Cotton of EEHAS, on an area of higher ground overlooking the Roman settlement of Ewell and Stane Street and where traces of Roman activity were located in the 1970s. Four trenches were opened in a line running north–south between those excavated in 2006.

Watching brief by M Sims of OA did not reveal any finds or features of archaeological interest, and no continuation of the deposits recorded during the 2003 excavation of the Glyn House site was observed

Evaluation by N Cowlard and F Pemberton of EEHAS recovered flints and Roman pottery.

Watching brief by N Cowlard of EEHAS during development where much of the groundworks proposed had already been completed did not reveal any finds or features of archaeological interest.

Watching brief by N Cowlard and F Pemberton of EEHAS revealed no evidence of Stane Street or any other finds or features of archaeological interest.