Bronze Age ring ditches and pits, Cobbs Farm (EHER 83528)

Trial trenching in 2010 recorded Bronze Age ring ditches and pits.

February-March 2010. Trial trenching. The evaluation revealed three ring ditches (in Trench 7, 27 and 35), 38 ditches or gullies, 36 pits and postholes and an irregular depression. Finds were generally sparse and few features were dated. Bronze Age features comprise Ring Ditch F1036 (Tr.7), and Pits F1075 and F1085 (Tr.28). Pit F1032 (also in Tr.7) contained burnt flint, and the feature may be prehistoric. The remaining sherds were small in number (1) and obtained from open features (ditches), and are insufficient to date the features (Ditch F1051 (Tr.15) and Ditch F1131 (Tr.35) each contained a Bronze Age sherd. Ditch F1055 (Tr.15) and Ditch F1057 Tr.22) each contained a Roman sherd). A late Saxon / early medieval sherd, and a Roman sherd were found in the topsoil (Trs. 14 & 17 respectively). Two concentrations of features were identified. Firstly with Trenches 1, 3, 4, 5 & 7, and secondly Trenches 22, 28, 32 & 33. The features principally comprised gullies, pits and post holes. Isolated, or sparsely distributed, features comprising gullies, pits and post holes were recorded in the eastern half of the site (Trs. 26 - 27, 34 - 37, 44, 47, 50 & 55). Trench 15 on the western side of the site contained three pits. Linear ditches traversed the site and were recorded in several trenches. <1>