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The Surrey Excavations Index was compiled by one of the authors (ES) between January and June 1987. During this time she was based in the Conservation and Archaeology Section (now Countryside and Heritage Division) of the Planning Department, Surrey County Council; the post was funded by the National Archaeological Record of RCHME.
The Index was compiled initially from the Sites and Monuments Record (SMR) of the Planning Department. This SMR incorporates the old Ordnance Survey record cards. It also has its own computerised index which provided a basic list of excavations. This work was then supplemented by research in museums, especially Guildford; by bibliographic searches, particularly of the Surrey Archaeological Collections and Surrey Archaeological Society. Bulletins; by correspondence with excavators; and by consulting the antiquities records of the former Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division. In June 1987 the number of excavations listed in the Surrey Index stood at just over 500. This article is not concerned so much with details as the description and discussion of broader trends.