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Tables 3 to 5

Figures 3, 19-27, 30, 37, 38, 42 and tables 5 to 11

In September 2015, trenches were excavated over the site of a late 3rd/early 4th-century tile kiln close to the county boundary with Hampshire and about 1km east of the Roman pottery sites in the Alice Holt Forest. this is the first record of a tile kiln operating in or near the Alice Holt Roman pottery industry.

Recent excavations in Ewell revealed a palimpsest of archaeological remains that date from the Mesolithic to the Middle Saxon period. The first archaeologically identifiable evidence of activity within the confines of the site consists of scattered struck flint of Mesolithic and Neolithic date with more substantial activity occurring in the Late Bronze Age to Early Iron Age as evidenced by settlement activities associated with a well-organised field system. During the early Roman period, Ewell became the site of a large quarrying industry. That activity, and the landscape in which it took place, were of undoubted significance to the ancient inhabitants of the area, as demonstrated by the presence of a wealth of structured deposits in quarries and ditches that included a large quantity of human remains. The Romano-British people that were responsible for these depositions may have viewed the exercise as a practical undertaking integral to the quarrying process. Knowledge of the importance of this landscape and the earlier features within it appears to have survived into the post-Roman period when the top of one of the quarries was apparently used as a receptacle for a ‘deviant’ burial of Middle Saxon date. The results of this excavation therefore add to current understanding of the development of Ewell and its environs from the Late Bronze Age onwards and contribute to bodies of knowledge on several wider topics, including the nature of Late Bronze Age to Early Iron Age pastoralism and settlement on the North Downs, late prehistoric flint tool production, Roman quarrying in south-east Britain, mortuary rites in this region during the Late Iron Age and Roman periods, the potential importance of landscape context and the concept of liminality within prehistoric and Romano-British cosmologies and the appropriation of the landscape by a new culture during the Anglo-Saxon period.

Archaeological excavation of a large site in Southwark, just downstream from London Bridge and to the north of Tooley Street, produced an important assemblage of Tudor finds, the majority of which date to the turn of the 15th and 16th centuries, c 1480--1510. This article reports on the early Tudor artefacts, which included a number of household fixtures, kitchen and table wares, clothing, shoes, evidence of metalworking and other trades, as well as several weapons and fragments of armour. The article also gives a chronological narrative of the site, beginning with some prehistoric features and Roman discoveries (a dated 3rd century AD waterfront), and continuing with medieval features (such as a number of fishponds) and the remains of numerous early modern brick and timber buildings.

A sketch survey of earthworks on Gravelly Hill, Caterham, and Bletchingley, undertaken by Gwyneth Fookes and the late Peter Gray, showed evidence of multi-period activity; when Caterham School purchased the area they requested a full survey to assist in their land management. These surveys have indicated the presence of at least two phases of field systems, one of which pre-dates emparkment; the generally well-preserved pale of part of the medieval North Park; two lines of military defence works; and both large- and small-scale gravel extraction.

After the death of George Inwood an archive of finds, mainly from informal fieldwalking, was recovered from his house and curated by John and Susan Janaway who kindly made it available for study, and, where appropriate, publication.