Monument record HTC 062 - Medieval activity, Syers Farm, The Causeway

2006: There was limited evidence for prehistoric activity on the site. Two small fragments of un-diagnostic pottery (possibly of Iron Age date) and a worked flint fragment were found in a small, truncated pit. Three other worked flints of probable prehistoric date occurred residually in later features.

There were no features of Roman date, and the only conclusive evidence for activity on or near the site during that period were a tegula fragment and an iron spearhead, both occurring residually in later features.

There was considerable evidence for medieval activity, concentrated in the south-western part of the site and dating mainly to the 12–14th centuries. Some small ditches/gullies were probably for localised drainage. Several pits were found close to, and in some cases cutting, the ditches. Some of these were large enough to have been small clay extraction pits and others were posthole-sized features, although there was no conclusive evidence for buildings or other structures within the excavated areas.There was sufficient artefactual evidence (domestic pottery, some fired clay of uncertain origin and small amounts of animal bone) to suggest that there was occupation in the immediate vicinity during the medieval period, although the focus of settlement was presumably outside the excavated areas (S1).