NHER 19495 (Monument record) - Site of Iron Age and Roman settlement and multi-period finds

1983. Hales survey site 87.
Very thin cereal cover. Well weathered good conditions.
Central concentration.
9 worked flints, 7 flakes/blades, 1 core, 1 scraper on thermal (J. Wymer (NAU) 1985).
16 flint gritted sherds. All probably Iron Age (A. Gregory (NAU) 1986).
332 Roman greyware.
1 neck of Roman storage jar.
1 samian.
6 oxidised Roman.
8 glazed red earthenware.
6 16th century glazed.
2 medieval unglazed?
1 early medieval (?) ginger jar rim.
5 small brick/tile fragments including one Roman ?
1 slag.
1 copper alloy disc Georgian half penny?
Identified by A. Rogerson (NAU) September 1983.

See (S1) in file.

(S2) records this as Site 87.
Most of the evidence for this settlement dates from the 2nd and 3rd centuries, although the presence of Iron Age pottery hints at earlier occupation.
See (S2) for more details.
S. Spooner (NLA), 25 January 2006.