Waverley

Student Village, Falkner Road, Farnham

Evaluation of the site for the new student village for the West Surrey College of Art and Design was carried out by D Graham and volunteers from the Farnham & District Museum Society. One pit of unknown date was recorded as was chalk and clunch masonry possibly dumped from works at the castle. A silver denarius and a piece of Roman roof tile were recovered and presumed to derive from upslope (later survey work confirmed a concentration of such tile at SU 834 472). A metal detector survey of the site recovered a 17th century trader’s token (John Smallpeece of Guildford).

31 Lower Church Lane, Farnham

Building works within the standing building, which dates to the late 16th century, revealed a number of features subsequently recorded by D Graham. A small mortar-lined conical pit containing solidified lead was identified, presumably the remains of a furnace associated with lead working. No dating evidence was recovered, but the furnace must pre-date the standing building and appeared to be later than a stone floor, apparently of 13th century date, which was also recorded. From evidence elsewhere in the town, it is thought likely that the furnace dates to the early 16th century (292)

Hyde Farm, Churt

A watching brief by A and D Graham on works within the standing Tudor building recorded a Bargate Stone lined well, dating to at least 1700, and a thin ashy layer containing 13th century coarse and white wares as well as fragments of ashlar masonry. These remains presumably relate to a medieval precursor to the existing building, known from documentary evidence. (294)

Farnham Park

Additional work was carried out by N Riall on the site of a tile kiln from the early-mid 14th century, to recover additional examples of a shaped peg-tile for which no parallels are currently known. (292; see report in SyAC 84, 143-168)

Hankley Common

Excavation by M Reynier of Nottingham University, for the British Museum, of an area adjacent to the 1977/8 excavation by Dr R M Jacobi (site 103, Kettlebury). A large collection of flints was recovered, including two hollow-based points which are characteristic of Early Mesolithic Horsham assemblages. Another characteristic of Horsham assemblages, the chamfered flake or blade, was not recovered, but two characteristic chamfer spalls were.

A3 Hindhead

Evaluation by S Dyer of SCAU (with volunteers from the SyAS) for Chris Blandford Associates, along the line of proposed improvements to the A3. North and east of Bramshott Common (centred SU 874 341) a geophysical survey was carried out by the Bartlett-Clark Consultancy and a number of pit-like anomalies, which could be archaeologically significant, were identified. To the north and east of Hazel Grove (centred SU 881 349) a number of approximately parallel linear depressions were plotted and identified as remnant hollow ways from traffic before the modern A3 was constructed.

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