Surrey Archaeological Society

Evaluation by N Shurety of BA revealed no finds or features of archaeological interest

Evaluation on land to the rear of the property by J Lewis of TVAS revealed two pits and a posthole, all containing post-medieval material. A number of earlier but unstratified finds from the site included Neolithic/Bronze Age flints, a single sherd of Roman pottery, and a small assemblage of medieval pottery. These could represent some earlier activity in the area, but might equally have been imported to the site through the agricultural manuring process.

Evaluation by N Garland of ASE revealed two ditches of probable agricultural function, one of which contained two beads of either Roman or early Saxon date.

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.