Surrey Archaeological Society

Watching brief by P Harp of Plateau on the excavation of a gas pipeline. No features were noted, but a number of fragments of Roman pottery and painted wall plaster were observed, both within excavated spoil and in situ within parts of the trench.

Watching brief by R Lambert of SCAU during the installation of a pipeline. Much of the area of impact was found to be previously disturbed ground. One area did demonstrate an intact stratigraphic soil profile, and a small number of Neolithic/Bronze Age flints were encountered residually in the subsoil. However, no features were observed.

Evaluation by A Boucher of AI prior to residential development. Quarrying was found to have removed most of the archaeology-bearing horizons across most of the site, although in isolated areas the remains of the former 19th century brickworks were encountered, as well as a series of geological palaeochannels.

Watching brief by S Stevens of ASE during the mechanical removal of recently deposited building debris. No finds or features of archaeological interest were revealed.

Evaluation by R Lambert of SCAU recovered a single medieval pottery sherd, but no features of archaeological significance were observed.

Watching brief by C Mayo of PCA revealed a single undated posthole, and layers of 20th century demolition rubble, but little of archaeological significance.

Building recording survey and watching brief by G Pattison of SCAU prior to and during the demolition of an air-raid shelter. A RCHME level 2 survey was conducted, with the archive subsequently augmented by the record of its demolition.

Watching brief by A Clark of EH and D Williams of SCC during works to clear parts of the moat revealed only 19th and 20th century finds.

Watching brief by J Robertson of SCAU during the construction of a pipeline from the High Street at Reigate Methodist church into Priory Park. A number of features probably relating to the 18th century geometric kitchen gardens were revealed within the park, as well as the remains of a possible former trackway. Elsewhere, an apparent buried medieval soil layer produced 13th and 14th century pottery, and the area around the Methodist church and towards the High Street revealed evidence from probable boundary walls and a cellar of post-medieval date.

Ongoing research excavation by P Harp of Plateau continued to recover later prehistoric material.