ENN104044 - West Haddon Bypass, 2005 (Excavation)

{1} An area of c 0.9 hectares was initially subjected to full archaeological excavation prior to construction commencing with a further c 0.15 hectares being excavated as a result of the watching brief. The earliest evidence of occupation was a large ring ditch subsequently truncated by a sinuous gully which appears to define a large enclosure of probable Iron Age date. These features were overlain by the Romano-British settlement which comprised of a series of sub-rectangular enclosures set out either side of a trackway. Evidence for a small rectangular timber building, possible roundhouses, stock pens and a flue feeding a corn-drier or similar feature was found. The track-side settlement dates from the late 1st century, reached its zenith in the late 2nd and had been abandoned by the mid 4th century.