Late Bronze Age farmstead, late Neolithic and Bronze Age pits and ditches, Court Road (EHER 6142)

This site was first recorded as a cropmark complex including trackways, a ring ditch and enclosure. An excavation in 1991-2 revealed a Late Bronze Age enclosure containing a single hut circle with associated fence lines and pits belonging to a small farmstead. Occupation is thought to have been short-lived. Two Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age pits and an Early to Middle Bronze Age ditch pre-dated the enclosure.

Cropmarks of a trackway and ring ditch with a subrectangular enclosure in a field to the south, with an entrance in its eastern side. <1> On aerial photographs and cropmark plot a second trackway is shown, linear features also, also curvilinear features, possibly part of a circular enclosure. <2> <3> <4> See aerial photographs <5> <6>. 1991-1992. Excavation. Excavation in advance of a housing development revealed a sub-rectangular enclosure of Late Bronze Age date. The excavation of the interior revealed a single hut circle with associated fence lines and pits belonging to a small farmstead for which a mixed agrarian economy is suggested. Occupation is thought to have been short-lived. Two Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age pits and an Early-mid Bronze Age linear cut pre-dated the enclosure. <7>