More information : Possible Iron Age or Roman boundaries, an enclosure and a settlement were seen as cropmarks and mapped from good quality air photographs. Two sinuous double ditched boundaries, 740m and 700m long, follow a more or less parallel, north-south oriented path. They are centred at SK 8799 4847 and SK 8816 4837 respectively.
Attached to the north end of the westernmost boundary is a rectilinear enclosure, 20m by 15m, centred at SK 8812 4876.
The easternmost boundary is more complex. The northern part has complex branching and associated enclosures. At the southern end is a settlement. The settlement consists of three conjoined enclosures, attached to the boundary, centred at SK 8795 4809. A single ditched boundary links these to a series of overlapping rectilinear enclosures, covering an area 100m by 70m, centred at SK 8784 4809. More ditched boundaries attached to the main double ditched boundary appear to divide up the area adjacent to the settlement. The north end of the double ditched boundary ends in a T junction and double ditched branches extend, two to the east and one to the west, for 200m. The boundaries to the east possibly continue as single ditches for a further 350m. Around the T junction three rectilinear enclosures are visible. Two are 15m by 15m and are centred at SK 8828 4871. The third enclosure appears to be attached to the main double ditched boundary, measures 15m by 10m and is centred at SK 8826 4864. Another rectilinear enclosure sits at the bend of one of the eastern branches from the main boundary. It measures 40m by 30m and is centred at SK 8838 4864.
It is not clear what the relationship between the two double ditched boundaries and there possibly associated features is. (Morph No. LI.716.29.1-2, 30.1-6, 31.1, 32.1, 34.1-3)
This description is based on data from the RCHME MORPH2 database. (1)
Recent photography reveals that to the east of the T-junction the northern of the two boundaries comprises a pair of ditches, spaced 7m apart, which are continuous for 300m to SK 8903 4889. Fragments of a rectilinear field sysytem following a north-south/east-west orientation seem to be aligned on the trackway at this point. The form and orientation of the field system are similar to those of a system recorded in the area of Doddington Littlegate, to the south, SK 880 475. (2) |