Late Iron Age to Roman features and pottery sherds, New Access Road, Elm Park, Station Road (EHER 17435)

Watching brief and subsequent excavation on a new access road reveals features and finds dating from the early Roman periods. These included several intercutting ditches, post holes, pits and finds of pottery.

Watching brief, and excavation, 1996 A Watching on the stripping of a new access road revealed multiperiod remains which were subsequently excavated. Features recorded included a series of early Roman field boundary ditches; a scattering of post holes (in no apparent pattern) and a few pits. Late Iron Age and early Roman pottery were recovered from ditches. One ditch was filled with a considerable quantity of potsherds which must have been placed within it after the ditch went out of use. The nearby area may have been used as a refuse dumping area. A sherd of pottery was recovered in a post hole and was initially identified as Saxon, it was later re-dated as Iron Age. Additional features excavated Some features are prehistoric (See EHER 17436) and Post Medieval (See EHER 17437) For description of the cropmarks in the area see EHER 3502 <1>- <2>.