NHER 65434 (Monument record) - ?Roman pit and early medieval and undated ditches

August-September 2015. Trial Trenching.
Evaluation of part of large proposed development area (Trenches 13-16).
The four trenches excavated at this location revealed a single pit and a number of ditches.
The pit was a small feature with a rounded profile that contained a single sherd of probable Roman pottery. A sample from its fill produced charcoal but little else in the way of charred plant macrofossils.
The orientations of the ditches were similar to those of surviving and former field boundaries depicted in the vicinity on 19th-century maps. The dating evidence recovered does though suggest that at least some of these reasonably substantial features might have been associated with a much earlier phase of activity, with three producing small quantities of early medieval pottery and no later material recovered. Small quantities of animal bone were also recovered.
Unstratified finds were limited to a single additional sherd of early medieval pottery.
Information from report uploaded to OASIS. HER copy awaited.
P. Watkins (HES), 1 March 2022.