Woking Palace

Report received from S Dyer on various work carried out at the palace, for Woking Borough Council, between 1995 and 1998. A detailed topographic survey of the palace site was conducted and a number of building platforms revealed. Resistivity survey produced a number of anomalies, the most prominent and numerous of which represent buried wall footings, or robber trenches. These are located on the eastern half on the site, the western half having been given over to gardens. Auger testing of the former moat suggest that it was regularly cleaned out when the palace was occupied, although not to the full depth of the feature. Limited excavation was carried out within the King’s Hall as part of a programme of repairs; later deposits associated with the building’s use as a barn were found to seal building and demolition layers dating from the occupation of the palace; outside the building a paved courtyard surface of brick and tile was revealed. The report also reports that divers in the River Wey, which runs past the site, have identified a series of upright timbers running parallel to the river bank; these are thought likely to have formed part of a jetty or wharf structure.
Year: 
1997-99
ID: 
1143
NGR: 
TQ029570
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