Hawks Hill House, Guildford Road, Leatherhead

Evaluation by J Stevenson of ASE in advance of residential redevelopment involved the excavation of eight trenches. One revealed an undated tree bole; a second, two pits/postholes and a gully all of probable prehistoric date, and a grave of probable Anglo-Saxon date excavated in the 19th or early 20th century; a third, four small pits, three of prehistoric date, and one of Early/mid-Iron Age date, and two very large pits of later Iron Age date thought to be used for grain storage. The nature of the Iron Age features suggest that they may be related to a settlement site, likely to be associated with the example excavated in the early 1960s by F A Hastings at Sussex Cottage a short distance to the west. Further work is planned.
Year: 
2003
ID: 
156
NGR: 
TQ157555
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