ENN106169 - Glapthorn Road, 2012 (Trial trench)

{1} Only a single ditch dated to the mid to late Iron Age was revealed during the investigation. An undated possible posthole base lay in close proximity to the ditch and is possibly associated with it. Quarrying of uncertain date may have taken place between trenches 1 and 2 at the southeastern end of the site. The evaluation identified a sequence of natural deposits overlain directly by topsoil at the west of the site and natural deposits overlain by a buried subsoil and topsoil at the eastern end of the site. Levelling deposits of redeposited natural clay overlay this buried soil profile. The trenching revealed that the site lay on a significantly steep hillside where the high ground to the west had been truncated and the lower ground to the east built up in order to form a level surface currently in use as a playing field.