ENN109517 - Monksmoor Farm, 2013-5 (Excavation Area 6)

Archived under ENN107879. {1} Excavation on land within the Monksmoor Farm housing development recorded a Bronze Age boundary ditch, a late Iron Age settlement and a series of Romano-British field boundary ditches dating to the 1 st-2nd century AD. The Iron Age settlement comprised seven roundhouses with associated enclosures, pits and postholes and a separate, large rectangular enclosure with an internal roundhouse. Pottery, animal bone, burnt stone and slag were recovered from many of the features. {2} Two separate phases of excavation were undertaken: the south-west part of the development, Area 6, was excavated between July 2013 and September 2013 and then, after a short hiatus, between March 2014 and April 2014. In February 2015 Area 6 was extended to pursue two linear features which extended outside the excavation area. The development area was formerly arable farmland with the recently demolished Monksmoor Farm at its centre. The southern area was largely flat. The underlying geology comprises glaciofluvial or alluvium deposits.