More information : SE 631 025 to SE 638 024 (Locality only): An examination of air photographs (1a) reveals a trackway visible as cropmarks. Boundaries lie perpendicular to the trackway.
(1)
The trackway described above has more extensive boundaries associated with it , both perpendicular and parallel to it, suggesting a more extensive field system. The date of these features is possibly Iron Age or Roman. To the west, near to this location is a Roman road and Roman pottery kilns and finds (see RR281 & SE 60 SW 26).
(2)
Iron Age /Roman field system, field boundaries, ditches, possible rectilinear ditched enclosures, and a double ditched trackway are visible on air photographs over an area of approximately 27ha (centred at SE 6357 0251).
A sinuous trackway runs on a west north-west east south-east alignment.
A fragmentary system of co-axial field boundaries is aligned along the trackway. Also visible boundaries flanking the trackway. Some form long rectangular fields with an average width of 150m.
To the south a narrow ditch runs on a slightly different alignment than the field system. It is possible that this feature may represent later land division and/or drainage.
At SE 6394 0245 is a potential rectilinear enclosure with an incomplete circuit and associated field boundaries.
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