During the cutting of drainage trenches in early June 2009 by contractors a prehistoric cremation was found some 19m east of the north-eastern corner of the A1 area of excavation. The cremated remains were covered by an inverted, decorated, collared ...

Excavations in Field 8

A lattice like field system was located across much of area A2. This system established in the Iron Age underwent a series of alterations and seems to have continued in use into the early Roman period

This Monument appears on the Onsite Archaeology and University Reports Late Iron Age: comprising the square enclosure, containing at least one, and possibly two, roundhouses. The late Iron Age evidence therefore may indicate a resettlement of a...

Evidence for metalworking of Iron Age date was also present in Area A1. Group 149 comprised Sets 840-41 and was associated with the establishment of a possible metal-working industry. Furnaces with clay lining, iron slag crucibles, charcoa, a lead sh...

Management and alteration of the natural springs. Field 9: Concentration of waterholes in Trench 2- represented by several pits & pit features. Isolated waterholes within Field 8- represented by several pits & pit features. The level of water manag...

In Area A1: Group 68 was comprised of a cremation. The fill, a friable, mid orangey brown clayey-sand contained large amounts of charcoal and 426g of burnt bone together with fragments pottery

Summarises work by Onsite Archaeology and the University Department Roman: Field 8 • 2nd century & on: The large number of Romano-British ditches found in Field 8 almost all follow similar alignments, being either north-northwest to south-south...

North-Western portion of A1: A skull with preserved brain tissue was found to the south-east of this waterhole area.

North-Western portion of A1: Large pits, some with wicker revetments, which appear to have related to the accessing of water at springhead. Bronze Age to Roman. Activity around the A1 waterhole continued into the Early Iron Age. A series of north-so...