An Early Roman Site at Beech Hill Road, Spencers Wood, Berkshire

Excavation at this site at Beech Hill Road, Spencers Wood identified a sinuous ditch which bounded features, including a metalled surface, on its south side, and may have defined an enclosure. A large, well-preserved deposit of pottery was recovered from a section of this ditch, which was closely dated to the Early Roman period of the 1st century AD. These features may be peripheral to a more extensive area of Late Iron Age/Roman settlement located at Warren Croft, 200m to the north. Early Roman activity is attested elsewhere within the environs of this site; the Roman road from Fair Cross to Stanbury runs c. 250m to the west. The only confirmed post-Roman feature comprised a substantial post-medieval drainage ditch.