Surrey Archaeological Society

Evaluation by J Stevenson of ASE in advance of residential redevelopment involved the excavation of eight trenches. One revealed an undated tree bole; a second, two pits/postholes and a gully all of probable prehistoric date, and a grave of probable Anglo-Saxon date excavated in the 19th or early 20th century; a third, four small pits, three of prehistoric date, and one of Early/mid-Iron Age date, and two very large pits of later Iron Age date thought to be used for grain storage.

Metal detector survey under the direction of D Williams of SCC and A and D Graham of SyAS recovered metal objects of Roman, medieval and later date, and a single pottery sherd of possible Iron Age date. The survey shed no light on the interpretation of a circular enclosure identified on aerial photographs of the site. (Bulletin 369)

Evaluation by P Jones of SCAU in advance of the creation of a lake involved the excavation of eighteen trenches. The evaluation revealed no archaeological finds or features, but on-site observation and a map appraisal suggest the presence of a post-medieval building complex just outside the proposed lake area.

Evaluation by P Jones of SCAU on a site postulated to contain a section of Stane Street revealed no features, and only a small flint hammerstone was recovered from the subsoil

Excavation by A Hall of SyAS of a small section of the assumed line of Stane Street revealed its eastern edge. Report in SyAC 91, 276–9

Excavation of a test pit by B Fairs as part of the Time Team `Big Dig’ revealed finds presumably associated with the now demolished Milton Court Mill buildings that once existed on the site

Recovery by G Rapson of SyAS of 26 pieces of Mesolithic flintwork from an area of disturbed land surface close to the Scheduled bowl barrow.

Fieldwalking by G Rapson of SyAS following ploughing of the field revealed Mesolithic, Neolithic and Bronze Age flint, and prehistoric, Roman and post-medieval pottery.

Metal detector survey and excavation of a trench by D Williams of SCC in an area adjoining the Scheduled villa where a dispersed Roman coin hoard had been reported in the 1970s. No coins were found, but various Roman finds and a feature, interpreted as a robber trench of a building demolished in the Roman period, was revealed. (368)

Historic Landscape Survey commissioned by SCC and SyAS and undertaken by N Bannister researching the development of the landscape of the eastern area of Hurtwood in an area triangulated between Peaslake, and the Holmbury Camp and Felday hillforts