More information : Area TF 070 522 Crop marks seen from the air by J.T. Hayes. (1) The farmer knows of no finds having been made and there are no surface traces of the marks in the areas which occur in level fields, now under crop and not perambulated. The farmer reports no finds (c). The enclosures are almost certainly Romano-British in origin being outliers of the very extensive settlement pattern of this period to the east and south. OS air photographs refer (b). (2) No change since report of 5.1.65 (3)
The cropmarks recorded by Authorities 1-3 area those of a probable Iron Age or Roman field system which was mapped from good quality air photographs. The following features were identified:-
A series of ditch-defined boundaries arranged perpendicular to an E-W boundary, 330m in length, probably forms part of a system of conjoined enclosures with an average breadth of 50m, centred at TF 0696 5207. A N-S boundary, 150m in length, lies at right angles to the first and has two conjoined rectilinear enclosures, 20-15m by 15-10m against its west side; a third enclosure, 10m by 12m, lies at the southern end of the boundary, centred at TF 0704 5208. (Morph No. LI.851.45.1-3)
This description is based on data from the RCHME MORPH2 database.
Further cropmarks of probable Iron Age or Roman settlements, of slightly different character, are recorded immediately to the south of this location as TF 05 SE 79 and 80. (4) |