Iron Age ditches, Burdon Lane

A series of ditches and gullies were excavated as part of a larger excavation. A boundary ditch aligned approximately northwest-southeast and continuing to the northwest was identified initially by geophysical survey and trial trenching. The palaeoenvironmental assemblage indicated a late prehistoric or Romano-British date and a fragment of birch charcoal gave a radiocarbon date of 390-200 cal BC. Another ditch intersected with it and there were a series of gullies to the northwest, one of which produced a piece of alder charcoal which gave a radiocarbon date of 540-390 cal BC. An oval
enclosure ditch in the northwestern part of the site was only partially excavated in a trial trench.
Excavation was undertaken in 2021 and post-excavation analysis was undertaken in 2023 (event 5467 report 2023/34).