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SURREY ARCHAEOLOGICAL COLLECTIONS
Trial trenching on a probable moated site at Downside Farm, Cobham
DAVID GRAHAM, AUDREY GRAHAM and DAVID TAYLOR
Downside Farm is probably the site of the manor of Downe, referred to in medieval documents. Trial trenching in advance of gardening and building works produced pottery dating from the 11th/12th centuries onwards. No intact medieval features were found, but an excavation within the dining room of the existing 18th century farmhouse revealed an underlying flint floor, a wall and an apparently external cobbled surface belonging to a building of late 15th-17th century date. The existing curving water-filled linear feature, mainly to the north of the farmhouse, was found to have originally extended along its east side as well and these cuts probably represent two arms of what may have originally been a three-sided moat.
