Possible Iron Age site, Sanford Mill (EHER 83024)

Iron Age site allegedly found in the 1930's. No evidence now exists

Information from NRHE A raised platform by the side of the water at Sanford Mill was a British Camp. A long rectangular stretch of ground is too steep for cultivation at this present time and several Iron Age burial urns have been dug up in the gravel pits nearby. <1> Field survey, 1976 No trace of alleged Iron Age Camp found. Berridge probably refers to the strong river terrace centred at TL 739058 which has been quarried for gravel. <2> Field survey, 1988 The siting of the alleged camp is probably as suggested by auth 2, and is beneath the present Manor Farm situated on a raised river terrace cut into by the present course of the river which has resulted in a steep cliff around 6m high immediately N of the farm. A farmhand of 20 years service knew of no prehistoric finds made at the farm in that time. The suggestion of a settlement here must have come solely from the mind of Berridge <1> because of the juxta-position of the prehistoric finds from the area (the authority and siting of which is unclear) and the naturally advantageous position on the river terrace. <3>