Training and community excavation led by H Sheldon of BC and J Cotton of EEHAS/Museum of London, on an area of higher ground overlooking the Roman settlement of Ewell and Stane Street and where traces of Roman activity were located in the 1970s. The evaluation revealed natural features of geological interest and a substantial number of features and finds of Roman date, together with traces of later agricultural and horticultural activity. The Roman evidence included shallow intercutting pits or quarries, one of which contained a small oven or drier with a rectangular flue, at least three substantial chalk-cut shafts, and enough ceramic building material to suggest the existence of a building in the vicinity. The evidence indicates two main phases of activity dating to the 2nd–3rd and late 3rd–4th centuries. (395, 397)