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Geophysical survey (Licence no. 08R117) and test excavation (Licence no. 09E0478) underaken as part of the proposed Metro North development revealed a sub-rectangular enclosure (56m E-W x 45m N-S). It consisted of an enclosure ditch (1.9–3.5 m wide) on three sides, branching into a double ditch on the remaining W side, with metalled surfaces, pits, and shallower, narrower ditches surviving in its interior. Some 29.5m to the E was a shallow, metalled NNE-SSW hollow way (c. 4.2m wide and 0.15m–0.53m deep). The monument may date from the early medieval era, based on the absence of (later) medieval pottery and on the recovery of a fragment of concave ‘furnace bottom’ iron slag from a lower fill of the enclosure ditch (Frazer 2009, 23).
Compiled by: Christine Baker
Date of upload: 6 February 2015
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