SNN110930 - Late Iron Age to early Roman settlement and medieval settlement at Harley Way, Benefield

An area of late Iron Age and Roman settlement, dated 1st-2nd century AD, comprised three large ditched enclosures constructed in two phases, as well as other features including at least one T-shaped corn-drying oven. There was also some activity in the 4th century AD> A second area contained parts of four plots that would have lain at the eastern end of the deserted medieval hamlet of Churchfield. Initial boundary ditches were constructed in the later 12th century. Two plots contained partially surviving building ranges in limestone, dated to the 13th to mid-14th centuries. A further plot inserted between the two in the second half of the 14th century contained a single building. The settlement had been abandoned by the end of the 14th century