Monument record 0733300000 - NW of Water Stratford Lodge

Evaluation and subsequent excavation was carried out by Oxford Archaeology East in June and July 2009 during construction of a replacement water main. The excavation of a penannular ditch and earlier gullies revealed a sequence of early to middle Iron Age occupation with up to three phases of activity, which took the form of small enclosures and included a ring gully associated with a possible roundhouse. The inference that the ring gully marked the site of a dwelling is supported by the presence of fairly evenly distributed concentrations of stone within the latest phase of the ring ditch, especially within its eastern segment, as these may have represented packing for posts that formed part of the superstructure for a roundhouse. See report for detail (B1).