Late Iron Age to Roman settlement at Buildings Farm (EHER 8995)

Excavations at Buildings Farm in 1993 uncovered a Romano-British settlement of the 1st-4th centuries were excavated.

Original HER entry merged with NRHE data import: Excavation in 1993 located the edge of a unsuspected Middle Iron Age settlement. Two places of circular structures were revealed in the form of parts of penannular gullies, with internal post holes in the later phase, surrounded by a deep (1.2m below top of subsoil) enclosure ditch, probably belonging to the later phase. This was succeeded by a series of Romano-British field systems ranging from 1st to 4th century AD. Whilst no actual complex of Roman farm buildings was found, evidence for two possible circular structures within the field system was recovered. Roman pottery and metalwork were abundant. A second field system, identified by aerial photography, half a km to the south of the excavations, are thought to be at least partly Roman. <1> <2> See also: <3>