NHER 68183 (Monument) - Post-medieval and undated remains

February-June 2023. Trial Trenching.
Evaluation of part of large proposed development area (Trenches 164-176 and 186-193).
The 21 trenches excavated at this location revealed various scattered ditches and a small number of discrete features. The majority of the ditches recorded were aligned east-north-east to west-south-west. Although one of these features produced three sherds of Late Bronze Age/Early Iron Age pottery, this was potentially residual as a post-medieval brick fragment was found in an adjacent parallel ditch; the remainder were undated. The one convincingly-dated ditch was a north-to-south aligned feature that contained a number of post-medieval finds, including brick fragments, a button and a buckle, along with residual Roman pottery sherds and an iron nail.
The discrete features included a large pit in the south-west part of the site that contained a post-medieval roof tile fragment and a fragment of animal bone. The small number of other pits recorded were widely dispersed and all undated.
See report (S1) for further details.
P. Watkins (HES), 14 October 2025.