Monument record KIR 064 - Palaeochannel and medieval agricultural activity at East Anglia One Area 38

2017: Following the results of an archaeological evaluation, an excavation was undertaken. The excavation identified evidence of a possible palaeochannel and agricultural activity spanning the later 13th to the 20th centuries and confirms that the site was agricultural land for much of this time. Features of the high medieval period included a possible livestock enclosure, four other largely unrelated ditches and a dump layer. The post-Roman (Anglo-Saxon to post-medieval) pottery assemblage is the largest such group to have been excavated in Kirton to date. Late medieval activity is completely absent from the site, and the post-medieval period is only sparsely represented, comprising two small features, conforming to historic mapping that shows the site lying within a field since at least 1830. Evidence for prehistoric and Roman activity on the site is negligible and most likely brought to the site from elsewhere. S1