Identifier: surreyarchaeol43surr (find matches)
Title: Surrey archaeological collections
Year: 1858 (1850s)
Authors: Surrey Archaeological Society
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Publisher: Guildford (etc.)
Contributing Library: Surrey Archaeological Society
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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at Section No. 1. The metal, again unbrokenflint, with gravel, exists over a width of 10 feet, and is 6-7 inchesthick in the centre. The surface is much broken up, rough anduneven. Over it there is 6-7 inches of soil, containing many un-broken flints similar in all respects to those in the solid roadbed.These may have been detached from the surface by the action ofwater or tree roots. There are several large yew trees growingactually on the road, and their roots have spread over the metalwithout penetrating it to any great extent. * They would, however,tend to break up the surface. Along the upper (north) edge of the flint bed there is a small ditchor gutter, cut in the solid chalk, no doubt to carry off storm water. James Graham. Stane Street in Redlands Wood, the Holmwood.—PreliminaryNote.—From May 27 to June 15 three weeks work in locating andreconditioning a stretch of Stane Street in Redlands Wood has beendone by Mr. S. E. Winbolt and Mr. A. W. G. Lowther with funds PLATE XIV
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On (facing page 117 NOTES. 117 raised by the Societys appeal. Three men were employed for twoweeks, and two men for a further week. Stane Street here wascarried as a terrace along the lower part of the eastern slope ofthe hill. It was almost unrecognizable, because overgrown withbrambles and small trees, and the hauling of tree trunks along ithad scored it with a deep and broad rut (in some places with morethan one) not aligned with the road. The clearance of a width of50 ft. along the line has revealed the terrace, and two cuts across itshowed what was left of the metal, generally 4-6 in. deep. A lengthof 35 yd., 23 ft. wide, has been turfed, as the best method of preserv-ing the terrace, and 130 yd. in all has been cleared, so that aview of the line of the road can be had either way from the turfedportion. It was found that on the West side, owing to the steepslope of the hill, the road had been covered in places for a half oreven two-thirds of its width, by soil which had silted do

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