Examination of bones discovered during renovation works by E Brants and T Howe of SCC. The bones were found to be animal rather than human, probably originating from a post-medieval pit below the foundations of the structure that had been disturbed by the works.

Observation by G Jackson of SCC of excavated foundation trenches revealed no finds or features of archaeological interest

Archaeological assessment by N Bannister for the Woodlands Trust of secondary woodland on a former site of Knaphill Nursery, a late 19th century internationally renowned commercial nursery. The most common earthworks revealed were boundary banks, the structure and form of which suggest that they originated as field boundaries. Depressions occurring within the wood may be bomb craters.

Report on an archaeological assessment undertaken in 2003 by N Bannister for the Woodlands Trust. Because the wood was probably managed as a wood pasture common (where manorial tenants could graze stock beneath an open canopy of pollarded trees and where there was little need for wood banks dividing the property of different woodland owners), and because of levelling for and laying out of a munitions store located here during the Second World War, few features of antiquity exist.

Watching brief by A Clark of EH and D Williams of SCC during works to clear parts of the moat revealed only 19th and 20th century finds.

Observations during building work by T Howe of SCC. Removal of part of the ground floor revealed the remains of what appeared to be a brick-built 18th century cellar, extending from the street frontage where an entrance was noted. The remains were preserved in situ, sealed beneath a replacement floor surface.

Archaeological assessment by N Bannister for the Woodlands Trust revealed that wood banks are the predominant archaeological feature. These are likely to be at least medieval and probably date from when the woods were enclosed to prevent stock grazing. The woods were once much larger, and reduced earthworks on the western side suggests that subsequent fields or assarts were created by clearing areas of the woodland. Ditches of 19th century date, dug to aid drainage in the woods, and evidence of Second World War military activity in the form of slit trenches, were also discovered.

Report published by D Williams in SyAC 92, 259–62.

Archaeological assessment by N Bannister for the Woodlands Trust. Areas of both Glover’s Wood and Edolphs Copse were in use as fields at some time during the medieval and post-medieval periods before they were abandoned and the land reoccupied by trees. Wood banks and field boundaries were the predominant archaeological features revealed. While those in Glover’s Wood are visible, the department divisions in Edolphs Copse have been obscured by shallow stone quarrying. Ricketts Wood is a remnant of ancient woodland, and little of archaeological interest was recorded.

Excavation carried out in late 2003 by D Williams of SCC on and around the findspot of three bronze objects of mid–Late Bronze Age date found during metal detecting. The excavation involved one trench located on the findspot and a number of test pits which revealed that the hoard appears to have lain beneath a small cairn of tightly packed flint nodules. The cairn may have been created on the edge of a lynchet, suggesting a similar date for this feature. (378)