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SURREY ARCHAEOLOGICAL COLLECTIONS
Excavation of multi-period sites at Lodge Lane, Addington, Geoffrey Harris House and Lloyd Park, South Croydon
The Oxford Archaeological Unit was commissioned to undertake a programme of archaeological excavations on sites at Lodge Lane, Geoffrey Harris House and Lloyd Park and in connection with the construction of the New Addington branch line of the Croydon Tramlink. The aim of these excavations was to investigate further archaeological remains discovered in these three areas during a trial trench evaluation along the proposed Tramlink route in 1997.
The excavation at Lodge Lane revealed pits and postholes associated with Saxo-Norman occupation and earthworks connected with later medieval cultivation. In addition a series of ditches, perhaps forming part of a field system, and several pits were discovered containing Late Bronze Age/Early Iron Age pottery and worked flints.
The trench excavated in the grounds of the 18th century Geoffrey Harris House revealed a series of flint and brick wall foundations of a 16th--18th century building. A small trench located in the adjacent Lloyd Park uncovered several ditches associated with Roman settlement and a cremation burial.
Combined, the excavations provide an interrupted sequence of evidence from the Late Bronze Age to the present. Although small-scale, the prehistoric and Roman remains at Lodge Lane and Lloyd Park represent significant discoveries in an area where very few remains of this date have previously been found in situ. The unexpected discovery of deposits relating to Saxon-Norman occupation at Lodge Lane also provides evidence, in part contemporaneous with Domesday Book, relating to the origin of the village of Addington.
