Middle Iron Age or Early Anglo-Saxon features, New Poultry Unit opposite Bush Farm, Hall Road (EHER 81959)

Monitoring in 2010 identified several pits, a ditch terminus cut by stakeholes and a posthole. One pit yielded prehistoric pottery while the other pit and the ditch yielded Middle Iron Age or Early Saxon pottery thereby representing two phases of archaeological activity at the site. Prehistoric features associated with the cropmarks EHER 2499.

The phase 1 monitoring work along the outline of the new poultry unit has identified several probable archaeological features of indeterminate date that suggest prehistoric activity related to the cropmarks to the north and south of the site (EHER 2499). Phase 2 monitoring identified several pits, a ditch terminus cut by stakeholes and a posthole. One pit yielded prehistoric pottery while the other pit and the ditch yielded Middle Iron Age or Early Saxon pottery thereby representing two phases of archaeological activity at the site. Though limited, the evidence recovered indicates that the known cropmarks may be of Iron Age or Saxon date, as the ditch appears to have been aligned along the same axis as those present in the cropmark complex to the south. This also indicates that the cropmarks probably represent only a small proportion of the underlying archaeological remains. Such activity remains just below ploughsoil. <1> Later monitoring also revealed Iron Age features see EHER 47597