More information : [Area cent. TF 090066] A series of cropmarks probably indicating
settlements, visible on air photographs, include a cursus, 500 ft.
long with straight sides and squared end (TF 083066 - 084067)
surrounded by ten circles, one of which near the east end resembles a
small 'henge'. A complex of pit-alignments (TF 095065) can be seen
to join ditches and to form perhaps large enclosure. There is also a
winding track with more than ten irregular rounded enclosures,
ditches, and possible fields, south of the railway, and a smaller
group of circles near Barnack. See A.Ps. F.21/58 RAF 3174/0026-29. (1)
[TF08550670] Several characteristic button scrapers of E.B.A. type
were picked up on the Southern slopes of a slight knoll, and
elsewhere in the fields were found Flint cores, flakes and scrapers.
(2)
There is no evidence of these features at ground level. (3)
Extensive perambulation in oblique sun revealed no surface evidence
of occupation. Present location of finds of authority 2 unknown.
(4)
Cropmarks visible on St Joseph and NMR air photographs. (5)
TF 0825 0665. Survey and excavations took place between November 1980
and May 1981 in advance of pipeline construction. Following
discussions with the farmer the route of the pipeline was altered so
as to avoid any major archaeological monuments. Preliminary
fieldwalking revealed a Bronze age flint scatter. The South Field, on
excavation, produced a series of Iron-Age/Romano-British ditches. The
North Field revealed later Iron-Age/early Roman ditches, possibly
enclosure boundaries. A later middle Iron-Age date is probable for
the initial use of the ditches. Some evidence was found for Roman
farmyard buildings, and a medieval plough headland was excavated. (6)
The Neolithic cursus refered to by authority 1 has been mapped from
good quality air photographs and was visible as a cropmark of a
rectangular ditched enclosure 115m by 20m, centred at TF 0836 0672. A
band of geology visible as a sinuous linear feature runs through the
cursus.
Three features were visible aligned with the ends of the cursus,
and are presumably associated with the cursus, although not
necessarily contemporary i.e. more likely to be Bronze Age. These
features were a hengiform monument, centred at TF 0830 0668, defined
by 1 ditch with an entrance to the west; 2 round barrows, diameter
25m and 10m, and each defined by 1 ditch. The barrow centred at TF
0840 0678 has a central pit. The barrow centred at TF 0832 0674 has
a, possibly unrelated, off-centre pit. (Morph No. LI.777.40.1-5)
Other hengiform monuments and barrows were visible in the vicinity of
the cursus. These do not appear to have a direct relationship with
the cursus but the features in this area do seem to form a group of
Late Neolithic/Early Bronze age funerary and 'ritual' monuments.
(see TF 00 NE 195-199)
The other features refered to by authority 1, e.g settlements, pit
alignments etc appear to be of a different nature to the cursus, and
associated monuments, and have therefore been recorded in detail
elsewhere.
The 'great aisled building' refered to by authority 6-7 forms part of
a complex of cropmarks of a Roman villa which has been described in
detail in TF 00 NE 21.
This description is based on data from the RCHME MORPH2 database.
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