Monument record 0790500000 - Land north of Tingewick Road

All geophysical anomalies were identified in the trenches. In the western field significant archaeology appears to be limited to a ditch relating to a small Roman enclosure, upto 2m wide and 0.40m deep the fill contained 2nd-century pottery, identified in Trench 4. Trenches in the eastern field targeted 2 enclsoures identified by the geophysics survey. A significant number of features not identified by the geophysics survey were also identified during the evaluation: walls, stone surfaces, and additional ditches. The inverted L-shaped feature comprises a stone wall footing, aligned north-south, and an east-west aligned ditch. The length of the wall would suggest that it that it represents a large enclsoure or land division, rather than the footing for a structure. The wall is located immediately east of a possible cobbled Roman trackway. In T21 the surface appeared to be slightly cambered with larger, less worn stones along the centre line with flanking ditches. Intrepreted as a trackway or possibly a minor road (B1)

Late Iron Age to early Roman remains comprising enclosure and boundary ditches, pits, and occasional post-holes. Re-cuts within several of the ditches indicate that the features were maintained throughout their use. The presence of 3rd–4th-century artefactual evidence recovered during the trial trench evaluation in the eastern field and the absence of finds later than the mid-2nd century from the open-area excavation may suggest the settlement developed moving eastwards. Animal bone and plant remains are typical of an IA-RB rural farmstead (B2)