Excavation by M Russell, for the BSAG, continued on the site of Bletchingley Place. A series of substantial greensand and brick foundations, robber trenches and deep post holes associated with the west range of the house built sometime before 1521 by Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham, was identified; the features could not be securely dated, but a late 15th century date seems likely. In the early 16th century additions and alterations were made, entirely in brick, including the blocking of a large entrance in order to build a small room with a chimney. By the mid-16th century a small rectangular garderobe tower was added and a greensand wall constructed to enclose a courtyard. Finds from the garderobe chamber, including window glass and masses of building rubble, suggest that this part of the range had fallen out of use, or been demolished, by 1650. Evidence from the robber trenches indicates that most of the inner court, the main domestic ranges, was demolished between 1670 and 1680 (substantial parts of the outer court survived into the 19th century). To the north east of the house a structure 6.5m wide and 2.2m deep, with well made greensand walls, was sectioned by machine. The structure can be broadly dated by the fact it cut deposits containing 13th century pottery and was infilled by kitchen refuse, including large quantities of deer bones, of late 15th - early 16th century date. It may have formed part of a cellared structure or be part of a moat or fishpond. By the mid 16th century a brick drain had been constructed through the infill and between 1670 and 1680 the structure was sealed by almost 2m of clay, as the area was levelled up. On slightly higher ground to the west a trench revealed 13th-14th century deposits, associated with a high status building of that date identified during previous years’ excavations. Also revealed was a scatter of Late Bronze Age or Early Iron Age flints and pottery; finds included a virtually complete jar containing calcined flints.