Medieval and post-medieval features, on the route of the Fossetts Farm overhead line (EHER 48147)

A watching brief in 2008 recorded a small cluster of early medieval pits and post-holes, two late medieval deposits and two post-medieval boundary ditches at the north end of the route. At the south end of the route were the possible structural remains of a timber building and evidence to suggest a post-medieval enclosure.

January-February 2008. Watching brief. In the north of the route was a small cluster of early medieval pits and post-holes, two late medieval deposits perhaps infilling a pond or hollow and two post-medieval boundary ditches that formerly separated the northernmost field from Shopland Road. Further significant deposits of late medieval date were recorded in the south of the route close to Sutton Road. Possible structural remains in the form of rubble limestone footings for a timber building lay alongside pebble and shell surfaces. Worked stone, presumably reused from a high status building elsewhere, was also present. In the early post-medieval period the same area may have been enclosed within a rectangular enclosure. Finds from the enclosure ditches and a near-by pit were of a range and quantity to imply domestic occupation in the near vicinity. <1>