NHER 65177 (Monument record) - Roman, medieval or later and undated features

October 2015. Trial Trenching.
Evaluation of proposed development site.
The 11 trenches excavated revealed a number of linear and discrete features, the majority of which lay in the western and south-westernmost parts of the site. Finds were scarce and these remains were therefore mostly of uncertain date.
Three flint flakes and an Iron Age pottery sherd provided some evidence for prehistoric activity on the site, although these were all recovered from a north-to-south aligned ditch that also produced a small assemblage of Roman pottery. A single Roman pottery sherd was also recovered from one of several adjacent probable post-holes. A pit identified in the same trench had a charcoal-rich fill that also contained fragments of burnt clay and ceramic building material. A sample taken from this deposit produced a single hulled caryopsis of barley but little else in the way of charred plant macrofossils. Two sherds of probable Roman pottery were also recovered from a north-west to south-east aligned linear feature at the southern end of the site.
The other features included several east-to-west aligned ditches that all lay along the western margins of the site - one of which produced a fragment of glazed tile, along with several undiagnostic fragments of ceramic building material.
Information from report uploaded to OASIS. HER copy awaited.
P. Watkins (HES), 23 July 2021.