NHER 28700 (Monument record) - Site of Roman settlement, medieval enclosures and multi-period finds

1991. Fieldwalking finds. 'Field W21'.
Roman, Late Saxon, medieval, post medieval sherds.
Roman tile. Roman finds form concentration.
See full details in file.
E. Rose (NLA) 6 January 1992.

1992. Metal detecting survey.
Lead weight, conical with pierced central lobe ?date.
Medieval copper alloy vessel rim fragment.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 6 April 1993.

November/December 1996. Metal detecting finds.
Medieval and post medieval buckles.
Roman and undated sherds.
See list in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 3 January 1997.

Up to November 1996. Metal detecting finds.
Roman brooch and coin.
Medieval/Post medieval coin weight.
Medieval and post medieval metal finds.
See lists in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 12 December 1996.

January/February 1997. Metal detecting finds.
2 worked flints.
See file (one possibly an oblique arrowhead). Identified by H. Geake (A&E).
Bent rectangular copper alloy sheet, now in 2 halves, 3 holes in a row at one end, the central one with copper alloy rivet. Opposite end may be broken. Decorated with 2 longitudinal grooves. Uncertain function, but perhaps a reinforcing or binding strip, from a ?box. Medieval.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 3 March 1997.

26 June 1996. NLA air photography.
Cropmarks of a clearly defined set of broad ditched rectilinear enclosures (see Notes).
The enclosure has several internal sub divisions and a large pit like feature. A sub-recatangular enclosure sits within the main area. The ditch is extremely wide and may have a moated element to its design. The ditches around the exterior join up with existing boundaries and hedgelines on the ground.
It seems likely that these enclosures date from the medieval period, possibly continuing into the post medieval.
S. Massey (NLA), 30 August 2001.

The concentration of Roman pottery recovered from this site suggests that is the site of a Roman settlement.
See (S1).
S. Spooner (NLA) 15 November 2005