Medieval

1066-1600

Leatherhead Leisure Centre, Leatherhead

Soil stripping, mapping and sampling by D King of FA of a site close to the river Mole proposed for a new games area. The work revealed three linear features and a possible pit cut into the top of an alluvial layer present across the site. The dominating linear feature was up to 9m wide and possibly represented a trackway of medieval or post-medieval date. A stony layer running along its edge pre-dated the feature, and the Saxon pottery sherd contained within this layer may be either residual or date it to that period.

The Crossways, Abinger

A series of fieldwork projects by N Cowlard and members of the SyAS Roman Studies Group around Cocks Farm villa to investigate it within its rural context. A metal detector survey of the field to the north and east of the villa recovered one piece of curved and decorated copper alloy that may have been part of a Romano-British decorative furniture fitting, although none of a number of lead and iron finds recovered could be attributed to the Romano-British period. Romano-British pottery and worked flint was also recovered.

Newark Priory, Ripley

Geophysical survey by J English of SyAS, involving a magnetometry scan of the inner precinct area, did not provide any evidence for buried structures, although a number of anomalies that may represent kilns were recorded. An historic building recording survey of the gatehouse was also carried out, and a watching brief was undertaken during remedial works, with soil displaced by animal burrowing dry-sieved for material before the burrows were infilled. A small amount of predominantly Iron Age and medieval pottery was recovered. (419

Manor Park, Guildford

Watching brief by J McNicoll-Norbury of TVAS during stripping for a soil storage area. The truncated remains of a Bronze Age pottery vessel – possibly a placed deposit – were revealed, together with a small ditch that contained medieval pottery. See TVAS monograph 11

15 High Street, Ewell

Watching brief during 2007 and 2008 by D Brooks of Bourne Hall Museum during refurbishment of the presumed 16th century building. The building was recorded by the DBRG as it was stripped back and its 16th century origin confirmed. The excavation of a trench for new footings within the building revealed a layer of burnt timber containing pottery of late medieval date over a mortar/chalk floor or surface, suggestive of the presence of an earlier building on the site, which had been destroyed by fire.

61–71 Faraday Road, West Molesey

Evaluation by N Randall of SCAU revealed evidence of past disturbance associated with the former buildings that occupied the site from the late 19th to mid-20th centuries and the construction of the present houses on the site. No features of archaeological interest were revealed, but three medieval pottery sherds were recovered from the backfill of a modern drain.

Anne Boleyn Hotel, The Hythe, Staines

Evaluation by P Jones of SCAU prior to an extension to the hotel. Roman structural evidence had previously been recorded on the site during archaeological observations in 1982. No repetition of this evidence was noted, although a fluvial clay was recorded at the base of the sequence, which apparently corresponded to a layer previously observed. This was overlain by a pebbly soil of medieval date with post-medieval rubble layers above, suggesting that some horizontal truncation of parts of the site had occurred

Abbey walls, Chertsey

Evaluation by R Poulton of SCAU prior to building works located within the Scheduled area of the former Chertsey Abbey. Wall foundations probably relating to the Frater and Dorter ranges of the former abbey were revealed, although of principal note was the large extent of post-medieval disturbance revealed, indicating that significant damage to the medieval structures had taken place during the post-Dissolution period.

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