Monument record 0771500000 - Field south of Eaton Leys Farm

The site in Field 11 is L-shaped and bounded on its southern and western edges by a bend in the floodplain of the River Ouzel. A pair of linear ditches pass north to south along its central axis, perhaps indicating the line of a trackway. To the east of this there is a very regular group of ditches defining small rectangular and square plots of land, and to the west there is a more loosely defined block of larger rectangular plots. A few of the detected features do not conform to this general arrangement, and may derive from earlier or later phases of activity on the site (B1).
Trench 20: Ditches located in this trench coresponded with anomalies identified by the geophysics survey. One ditch to the south of the trench contained Romano-British pottery sherds. The northern anomaly was represented by the intercutting pits, the later of these also containing Romano-British pottery. Trench 21: two ditches identified relate to anomalies identified by the geophysical survey. The western ditch, 1.06m wide and 0.51m deep, contained 3rd-4th century Roman pottery. The easrtern ditch also contained 3rd-4th century Roman pottery. Trench 22: Two ditches identified coresponding to the geophysics anomalies. Both contained sherds of 3rd to 4th-century Roman pottery (B2).