Monument record 0784700000 - Fields towards the north of Aylesbury Woodlands development - Site B

A network of linear anomalies covering roughly 1ha identified by geophysical survey. These represent a palimpsest of square and rectangular ditched enclosures typical of an Iron Age to Roman rural settlement extending across the northern parts of fields 13 and 14. The principle feature in Field 13 comprises an enclosure 35m x 25m with possible entrances on the south-eastern and south-western edges (B1).
Site B comprised rectangular enclsoures and identified many of the more substantial features indicated by the geophysical survey. The main phase of occupation started in the Late Iron Age and early Roman period, with 12 sherds of Late Broze Age/Early Iron Age pottery indicating earlier occupation. The presence of early Roman quern stones suggest this area may have been used for grain processing. 2 distinct enclosures with clearly defined internal sub-divisions. The core activity was centred on these enclosures with the bulk of artefactual evidence coming from these features. Finds became fewer in features further away. The principal phase of occupation starting in the late Iron Age through to the 2nd century AD. A tightly crounched inhumation burial of a child had been placed in an oval pit cut into the top of a ditch at the western end of Trench 14. apart from the skull the skelleton was complete. The square enclosure was defined by a ditch upto 1.50m wide and 0.50m deep. A fragment of rotary quern, possibly deliberately split, was recovered from the topsoil. A possible trackway lay to the south of the enclosures. Further ditches, on varied alignments, were locatred further south of the trackway. One ditch containing a posthole in the base is possible evidence for a pallisade (B2).