Following accidental discovery in 1876, six rooms of a Roman villa were excavated. The exact location was then lost until the great storm of 1987 exposed walls and wall plaster. A Surrey Archaeological Society’s training dig (1995-7) led to the scheduling of the site. In 2009 the present project began, partly to answer questions about the villa building, but also to examine its surrounding landscape and locate any ancillary buildings, and to see what came before and after it. The wealth of archaeology found means that this is still ongoing, with evidence for every period of history and prehistory apart from the Palaeolithic. This talk is a whistle-stop tour through over 3,500 square metres of trench and 5,500 years of activity.