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SURREY ARCHAEOLOGICAL COLLECTIONS
Excavations at Willmer House, West Street, Farnham
DAVID and AUDREY GRAHAM
Rescue excavations during building work and subsequent controlled trenching produced evidence for extensive occupation of the site, starting in the 13th century with the construction of a small kiln and continuing in the 14th century, when the slope was terraced and built on at both levels. The terracing work seems to indicate a surprising shortage of suitable building sites at this period and may also indicate that ribbon development to the west of the medieval town was much earlier and more intensive than had previously been thought. The fact that the terracing also passes under at least one of the existing property boundaries indicates that these are likely to be post-medieval in origin. The split in levels continued in use through subsequent centuries, with evidence for further industrial activity, until the property was levelled and converted into the existing garden and town house in the Georgian period.
