Initial trial trenching in advance of redevelopment by Vivien Etlinger and J L Gower for SyAS and SRVSG revealed nothing of interest.

Excavation by Vivien Ettlinger, J L Gower and L Green for SyAS and SRVSG examined a section of Stane Street, and established the correctnes of the OS line. The road had a raised central area, about 10.2m wide, of clay metalled with flit and some ironstone. It was flanked on the west and probably also on the east side by a wide Ievel area about 3.3m wide, cut into the natural and filled with flint and ironstone, interpreted as probably for drainage needed on this Weald Clay site. (195)

Trial excavation by Ann Watson in advance of possible tree planting produced burnt flint and LBA pottery.

Excavation by D W Williams on the site of buildings shown on the 1634 map. One was located although nothing was found datable to before c1750; a shallow gully with Saxo-Norman pottery was also found. (213)

Excavation by D W Williams in the partly demolished 17th century barn adjacent to the parish church. In the northern half of the excavation was a deep feature over 5m wide, probably a former watercourse, with a fill of several layers: firstly 1m of silt with a few struck flakes, then the articulated but headless remains of an ox, then silt with 11th/12th century pottery and bone, then layers of debris including a 13th century roof tile dump. All were cut by a pit or ditch roughly revetted with flint, stone and tile and having roof tile in its fill.

Site watching by L Le Monde followed by excavation by R J Poulton for SCC and Esso Petroleum Ltd in advance of redevelopment. A Saxon cemetery was partially excavated, producing burials in two groups. The first was of 17 pagan Saxon inhumations of the 6tir--7th centuries with grave goods including two spearheads, a bone comb and a cowrie shell. The second group was a number of more careless burials with evidence suggesting a late Saxon execution site. (208)

Trial work in advance of development was continued by Vivien Ettlinger and J L Gower for SyAS and SRVSG. Only unstratified finds were made, of daub and a few RB and medieval sherds. (209)

Systematic fieldwalking of Mesolithic site by members of LTRG recovered some 12,000 pieces of material, mostly flint waste. There were 195 tools, of which 25 were microliths of mixed types. (219; see report in this volume)

Eight prehistoric pot sherds, probably late Neolithic or BA, found in random field walking in one field by K Winser. (220) centered ref.

Probably three human burials found by workmen in lowering the floor levels of this 17th century building and recorded by D W Williams (but not seen by him in situ). Two seem to have been recognised more or less in position and both were apparently already disturbed when found, one seemingly under an external wall of the house. The burials were apparently only shallow. The house is adjacent to the churchyard and these are therefore presumed to be medieval burials either outside consecrated ground or within a subsequently contracted graveyard. (234)