Late Iron Age to Anglo-Saxon ditch, Hall Road (EHER 48291)

Monitoring of the area of a new crop-store revealed a ditch containing Early Iron Age, Roman and Anglo-Saxon pottery. The remainder of the area had been disturbed in the late 20th century.

June 2013. Watching brief. This ditch was found to survive only within the southern corner of the site, where it contained a mixed assemblage of Early Iron Age, Romano-British and Anglo-Saxon pottery. The limited size and extended date-range of the recovered pottery makes it difficult to definitively date this ditch, but it is probable that it was first created in the Iron Age and continued to form a field boundary until at least the Anglo-Saxon period. A 20th-century ballast quarry, later reused as a rubbish pit, covered most of the site, removing the majority of the ditch and any trace of other archaeological deposits that may formerly have existed in this area. <1>