31 trench evaluation. Trenches measured 50m by 1.8m. Two trenches enlarged at the request of the LPA Archaeologist The trench evaluation revealed a small number of features across the site, with a higher concentration to the north. Some of these features were clearly modern in date, however at least five of the features could be dated to the Bronze to early Iron Ages by the small quantity of pottery recovered from them. They may have been associated with the settlement that was found approximately 300m to the north-east of the site dating from the late Bronze Age to early Iron Age. A large deep pit was identified in trench 17 and subsequently fully revealed for complete excavation. The pottery recovered from the pit showed that it was a large and deep isolated Bronze Age pit, which likely existed within a Bronze Age manage agricultural landscape. The pit showed to have once contained timber, which did not survive but left an imprint of where it had rotted as a dark orange material near the base of the pit. Two samples from the pit produced a moderate quantity of charcoal.
Finlay Wood (Wed,) studied this question.