Record Search

A fieldwalking and metal detector survey located a low density of pre-modern finds.

Monitoring of groundworks revealed pits and ditches which contained finds of a medieval or late medieval date possibly associated with medieval roadside occupation in the vicinity.

Late Bronze Age settlement remains comprised pits and post holes and included a pit which yielded a regionally significant assemblage of c.500 sherds of Post Deverel Rimbury pottery together with large amounts of burnt stone/flint .

Evaluation and excavation identified Iron Age occupation, scattered features of prehistoric, Roman and post-medieval date and peat deposits that started to form in the Mesolithic period.

Monitoring of ground works for a detached outbuilding on the northern edge of The Common recorded two large late medieval/early Post medieval pits.

Excavation identified a Middle Iron Age enclosure ditch within which were the remains of two roundhouses and a number of probable storage pits as well as clusters of postholes and small pits.

Monitoring identified an unstratified Iron Age pottery assemblage and a group of undated postholes forming a possible structure .

Post-medieval and modern features and finds.

Evaluation revealed medieval ditches, pottery and a single sherd of prehistoric pottery. Excavation revealed Roman ditches, medieval ditches and a beam slot of a possible structure.

Excavation identified a further three possible phases of archaeological activity late prehistoric period, Saxon and post-medieval.