The excavation of Site 32 encountered dispersed settlement remains in the form of pits, postholes, and a small oval-shaped ring ditch/gully - possibly an eaves-drip gully - containing prehistoric pottery the vast majority of which dates broadly to the late Bronze Age/early Iron Age. Small quantities of what may be early Bronze Age, as well as mid/late Iron Age pottery, were also recovered suggesting a considerable date range of episodic prehistoric occupation/activity at Site 32. Four linear ditches contained sufficient assemblages of late Bronze Age/early Iron Age pottery to be assigned this same broad phase with a degree of confidence. A north-south oriented ditch extending into Site 32 from the northern limit of excavation, and two east-west oriented ditches 90m apart, appear to be continuations of an expansive system of ditches and double-ditched trackway visible as cropmarks to the north (MRM 025) and investigated at EA1 Sites 29C, 30, and 32. Additionally at Site 32 there is an obtusely angled ditch which contained two sherds of late Bronze Age/early Iron Age pottery, and appears to form the northwest corner of an enclosure or field. This ditch intersects with one of the two east-west late Bronze Age/early Iron Age ditches, but the stratigraphic relationship is ill-defined. The eastern side of this possible enclosure/field corner, is parallel to a series equidistant NW-SE oriented ditches provisionally assigned to the Romano-British period. It is therefore possible that the obtusely angle enclosure/field corner ditch is also Romano-British in date.
Monahan et al. (Tue,) studied this question.