Excavation and watching brief by P Thrale of MoLAS following evaluation work in 2003. Natural chalk solution hollows and a single irregular pit were recorded during the excavation, sealed by a layer of possible agricultural soil, which contained prehistoric flintwork and medieval and post-medieval pottery. No finds or features were observed during the subsequent watching brief.

Evaluation by J Stevenson of ASE prior to the submission of a planning application for residential development. Evidence for Iron Age utilisation of the landscape was revealed, including some limited settlement evidence in the form of a ring gully, although it seemed that the main focus of occupation was likely to be off-site. One area contained an extensive series of pits, postholes and ditches of Late Iron Age to Early Roman and 3rd–4th century dates. A buried former water channel was also recorded, as was evidence for 13th century activity on the site.

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.

Evaluation and watching brief by Helen Moore of TVAS in advance of residential redevelopment revealed several ditches and one pit. The only dating evidence consisted of pieces of abraded medieval tile from one ditch; the tile may, however, have been very old when deposited.

Metal detector survey under the direction of D Williams of SCC recovered only three objects pre-dating the 17th century. These were a buckle plate of medieval or Tudor date, a brooch dating to the 1st century AD, and an Early Iron Age, c 600–450BC, bow brooch.

Magnetic susceptibility, detailed magnetometry, and resistivity survey by D Sabin of Stratascan and a programme of fieldwalking by N Hall of ASE along sections of the proposed route of the A24 between Capel and Horsham. Within the Surrey section of the route, a number of anomalies and flint scatters were located. A watching brief carried out by K Sayer of PCA during the excavation of geotechnical trial pits along the proposed route revealed three possible features, one of which contained a fragment of burnt flint and a sherd of medieval pottery.

Evaluation and watching brief by N Shaikhley and J Robertson of SCAU revealed a large number of features, the majority of which appeared to be inhumations of medieval date, although dating evidence was scarce. The inhumations were probably originally within the boundary of the adjacent churchyard, which map evidence suggests may have contracted to its present size in the mid–late 18th century.

Fieldwalking by J English of SyAS in a field attached to the farm recovered 72 struck flints of possible Bronze Age date, three sherds of 13th century-type pottery and a thin scatter of post-medieval pottery and tile fragments. (376)

Evaluation by G Hayman of SCAU prior to the construction of a house. No features of archaeological significance were revealed on the site, although a small quantity of medieval pottery and tile fragments, recovered from the subsoil, were suggestive of 13th–14th century occupation in the area.

Evaluation by R Oram of TVAS prior to commercial redevelopment revealed a number of medieval pits, probably dating to the 12th–13th centuries, at a relatively shallow depth. Early post-medieval material was also recovered, although no evidence for structures having been present on the site was noted