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SURREY ARCHAEOLOGICAL COLLECTIONS
Excavations during 1979-1985 of a multi-period site at Stanwell
MARTIN O'CONNELL
Excavation of crop-mark features visible on aerial photographs of the site indicated multi-period occupation. The earliest and most significant of these features were two parallel ditches marking the line of a Neolithic cursus. No evidence of further activity occurred until the Late Bronze Age which was to witness the most complex and dense spread of settlement, notably a field system with a network of ditches and trackways, succeeded by scattered habitation in the form of structures and pits. No Iron Age material was discovered and only a relatively small amount of Romano-British. The Anglo-Saxon features formed a rather nebulous picture of small scale, scattered settlement. There was nothing to suggest that the area was other than arable land during the medieval period, while the greatest change that took place in the post-medieval period was the landscaping of the western half of the site to form part of the park attached to Stanwell Place. The post-medieval trackway bordered by two parallel ditches which was found in the northern part of the site may have been medieval in origin. Changes in field boundaries, indicated from documentary evidence, were confirmed by the archaeological record.
