Reigate & Banstead

Tattenham Way Allotments, Banstead

Continuing excavation and fieldwalking by Plateau recovered further finds of worked flint of Lower Palaeolithic, Mesolithic, Neolithic and Bronze Age date, while pottery dating to the Bronze Age, Iron Age, Romano-British, Saxon, medieval and post-medieval periods was also found. A large Neolithic or Bronze Age leaf-shaped arrowhead and a probable Bronze Age pendant were among the finds. Features on the site included a probable late Roman farmstead enclosure, and a Mesolithic tree-throw pit shelter with rubbish pit.

Nork Park, Banstead

Excavation by Plateau to investigate the site of a building shown on the 1819 estate plan, which may have been the medieval church of Burgh. A small trench revealed a chalk floor resting above a pebble floor, of either medieval or post-medieval date.

Banstead Heath landscape survey

Survey undertaken under the direction of C Currie of CKCA, as part of the Community Archaeology Project for SCC and SyAS, to assess whether the study area was suitable for designation as an ASHLV. Both documentary research and fieldwork added greatly to existing knowledge of the area, and highlighted the presence of a range of archaeological remains dating from the Palaeolithic through to the Second World War.

Banstead Heath

Evaluation by T Howe for SyAS on a number of features identified during research by the Plateau Group. The location of an L-shaped enclosure ditch was confirmed by excavation. The ditch was found to have originated as a roughly V-shaped feature, approximately 1.8m wide on the surface and about 0.7m deep. In one trench, it was found to have been recut on at least one occasion; following silting up of the ditch the boundary was apparently perpetuated with a fence line evidence for which was represented by two postholes.

Walton Heath

Watching brief by P Harp of Plateau recorded three dumps of Romano-British material recently redeposited from Walton Heath villa, comprising approximately 300 tesserae, several sherds of terra sigillata, Pompeian redware, Alice Holt-type pottery and numerous tile fragments, some of which were relief patterned.

Clifton’s Lane, Reigate

A sketch survey, fieldwalking and a programme of metal detecting carried out and overseen by D Williams of a medieval site excavated, but not written up, in 1972. Apart from two Bronze Age sherds, the material recovered mostly dates from the medieval period onwards. The site appears to consist of one building, at least partly of stone construction under a tiled roof, and it is possible that it may be connected in some way with a possible stone quarry that lies c 400m to the north. (356)

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