Danby Croft, Leatherhead Road, Great Bookham

Evaluation and excavation by W Weller of SCAU revealed the continuation of a shallow, V-shaped, curvilinear ditch, broadly dated to the Roman period and first recorded in the otherwise negative evaluation conducted in 2016. The quantity of Roman pottery recovered, all Alice Holt/Farnham greyware, suggests that the ditch probably formed part of a domestic type enclosure. The presence of a possible cut for the ditch within the subsoil and the distinct lack of finds from any other period, with the exception of a moderate-sized assemblage of residual Late Bronze Age flints from the top and subsoil, might indicate that the area had been subject to very little disturbance once it went out of use in the Roman period. A small number of undated, but possibly contemporary postholes, were recorded within the curve of the ditch, towards and beyond its southern terminus.