Belgic pottery spread, Hundred Acre Field (EHER 3486)

When deep ploughed for the first time in 1960, around 10 acres of this field was densely covered with Belgic pottery.

When deep ploughed for the first time in 1960, around 10 acres of this field was densely covered with Belgic pottery, etc. <1> The pottery likely relates to a series of ditched rectangular enclosures which ere added in the first half of the 1st century to the now largely silted-up Bronze Age enclosure (detailed in EHER 3471). The amount of occupation debris in the ditches suggests these were house plots rather than stock enclosures, although ploughing had removed structural evidence. Mid 1st century timber palisade and accompanying ditch were erected - later dismantled. <9> Roman material was also discovered - described under EHER 3497. For Aerial Photograph references, see EHER 3502.