Surrey Archaeological Society

Osteological analysis of human remains removed during excavation works, by L Sibun of ASE. The material was found to be in a poor state of preservation and highly fragmented. The minimum number of individuals represented was calculated as nine. No pathological lesions were noted, although only one skeleton was anything approached completeness. All the remains were estimated to date from the 19th--20th centuries.

Evaluation by G Potter of CA recovered a single sherd of unstratified and abraded Roman pottery, but no features of archaeological interest were revealed.

Historic building recording on a Type DFW3/28 variant pillbox, carried out by K Bower of PCA prior to partial demolition. A number of original fixtures and fittings were recorded

Excavation and watching brief by R Lambert of SCAU during mineral extraction works. The initial watching brief during site-stripping revealed more extensive activity than expected, including field boundaries, enclosure ditches, roundhouse ring gullies, and numerous pits, postholes and waterholes, apparently belonging to the later Iron Age and early Roman periods. The main phase of excavation divided the site into three areas -- B, C and X. Area B showed Late Iron Age--early Roman period settlement activity in the form of ditches, pits, postholes, and waterholes.

Evaluation by L Hayes of SLR revealed no archaeological finds or features, despite repeated but unproven assertions that a major Roman road crosses this site.

Evaluation by R Fitzpatrick of WA revealed a pit and a shallow ditch terminus/pit containing medieval pottery, together with a further pit dating to the post-medieval period, and a residual prehistoric flint scraper. A subsequent watching brief by J Millward of WA noted a similar depositional sequence to that recorded in the evaluation and excavation phases of work, but only the remains of a 19th century outbuilding added to the archaeological information recovered previously.

Watching brief by D and A Graham of SyAS revealed a late 19th century drainage access chamber, but no finds or features of an earlier date were discovered. This correlates with cartographic sources that suggest the area was undeveloped until the establishment of a nursery on the site in the mid--late 19th century.

Final phase of the watching brief by R Lambert of SCAU, which commenced in 2007. No features of archaeological significance were recorded, but a number of worked flints of probable Bronze Age date, together with pottery and clay pipe stems of late 17th--early 18th century origin, were recovered

Evaluation by I Hogg of AOC revealed a pit containing early medieval (Norman) pottery and two others containing probable residual 15th century material. Further excavation on the site revealed two additional shallow pits, neither of which contained any finds.