Iron Age pit and pottery sherds at Langley Green (EHER 8749)

Observation of gas pipeline laying in 1973 revealed Iron Age pottery.

Observation of gas pipeline laying. About 10ft away from a Roman cooking pot (see EHER 8748) a shallow gully was found, containing dark soil with pottery. Among the pottery were a mid 1st century beaker and the rim of a larger early Iron Age vessel, and many body sherds were also found, all heavily gritted. The course of the gully was traced for about 20ft as an arc of a circle perhaps 25ft in diameter, although the excavation was not extensive enough to determine whether it was in fact part of a circle. Two small holes with a dark fill were found in the gully but were too shallow to identify as the bottom of post holes. 100ft south-west of the gully the trench section revealed a small pit about 3ft in diameter and 0.5ft deep. The dark humus infill contained more of the gritted pottery and also particles of bronze which were too fragmented to identify. <1> - <3>