Post-medieval field boundaries and pond, and undated features at Power's Farm, Wheeler's Hill (EHER 80865)

Evaluation in 2022 recorded former field boundary ditches which relate to the agricultural use of the site in the late post-medieval period, and a large pit which represents the remains of a backfilled pond.

August 2023. Trial trenching. The majority of post-medieval features are former boundary ditches that are shown on historic mapping from the mid-19th century until the 1960s-1970s, when they were backfilled in order to amalgamate multiple smaller fields into larger ones. These ditches relate to the agricultural use of the site in the late post-medieval period. A large pit identified in Trench 180 represents the remains of a backfilled pond, present on historic maps up until the 1990s; it was likely used as a watering hole within the arable field. A low incidence of undated features was recorded across the site. These comprise pits, postholes, and linear features that could not be aligned with any other dated segments. Most of these features are likely to be associated with the Iron Age and Roman land use on site, particularly in Trenches 112–118, 148–149, and 153. The remaining undated features include two NNW ditches in Trenches 82A, 106 and 107, which may relate to the Early/Middle Iron Age settlement to the West, a broad E-W ditch to the SE (Trenches 195–197, 208), and scattered other linear and discrete features in Trenches 103, 110, 191, and 201.