Series: Meon Valley Project unpublished report series

Liss Archaeological Group were asked by The Friends of Corhampton Saxon Church and the Meon Valley Saxons Project to carry out a geophysical survey using both magnetometry and resistivity at Storey's Meadow, West Meon, Hampshire. The survey was carried out immediately north of a known Anglo-Saxon cemetery sited around a Bronze Age ring ditch. The cemetery and corresponding ring ditch had been excavated by Thames Valley Archaeological Services (TVAS) in 2011 prior to a housing development by Drew Smith Ltd over the lower (southerly) end of the field. A total of 49 Anglo-Saxon graves were excavated. In 2012 the site was designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument (SAM 1409204). The purpose of the survey was to try to identify if any archaeological features survived within the boundary of the Schedule so a decision could be made whether it should remain in place. A number of anomalies were identified by the resistivity survey: three small objects, possible graves, just outside the limit of the 2011 excavation and a faint linear feature, possibly an early boundary, running across the upper half of the field from south-east to north-west. The magnetometry result shows the same large square feature that appears within the TVAS magnetometry survey of the area in 2011.

A detailed gradiometer and earth resistance survey was conducted over land at Shavards Farm, near Exton and Meonstoke, Hampshire, with the aim of establishing the presence, or otherwise, and nature of detectable archaeological features. A metal detecting survey was also conducted. The site comprises an arable field to the east of the A32 and west of Shavards Farm, east of Exton. The site occupies relatively flat land, sloping gently upwards to the southeast. The geophysical survey has demonstrated the presence of anomalies of archaeological interest within the survey area, along with regions of increased magnetic response and numerous other responses.