Evaluation trenching set out to cover an 7% sample of the 136,473 m� area. When archaeology was uncovered a box was opened up around the archaeology. An area totalling 10,816 m� was opened making the area covered 7.9% of the area available for trenching. The evaluation trenches were excavated utilising two 20-tonne excavator equipped with a 2m flat bladed ditching bucket. All trenching was monitored by an archaeologist. The archaeologist directed digging by a mechanical excavator fitted with a straight-edged bucket in order to establish the presence or absence of archaeological remains within the development area. All features of archaeological significance were excavated by hand in order to establish the date, nature, extent and state of preservation of the deposits. Archaeological features and deposits were drawn at a scale of 1:20 and section drawings were drawn at a scale of 1:10. All significant archaeological features were sampled. The locations of all archaeological findspots and features and the area covered by the evaluation were plotted using a Trimble R2 Rover capable of centimetre accuracy. The archaeological monitoring was recorded using high resolution digital photography in order to record the process as well as any archaeological features or finds of interest. Within six of the trenches archaeological features were identified and four of them had areas open around them to understand the archaeology. In three trenches at the east of site a paleochannel was identified. The archaeology uncovered included an animal burial, a Z shaped animal enclosure, charcoal rich pits, refuse pits and ditches. Two of the ditches identified form a sub-rectangular enclosure, with 2/3 of the ditch uncovered. Due to the constraints of the evaluation the area that the ditches enclose were not stripped therefore it was not possible to determine the function of the enclosure, but it has similarities to a possible barrow.
Leonie Teufel (Sun,) studied this question.