Monument record COY 022 - Anomolies identified in Geophysical survey

2017: Magnetometry survey was conducted over cropmarks identified by 2018 aerial imagery and Google Earth. The site of a likely building was accurately located and may be further investigated.
Later evaluation did not reveal a building however a double ditch was seen, one cut almost exactly over the first. The fill produced a large quantity of animal bone and Thetford ware (S1).

Excavation continued, following on from the excavation carried out in 2017 and following the results of the magnetometry survey. The area excavated was a trench 9x5m over what appeared to be ditch lines, some set quite close together running north to south, there being five all together. The pottery dated the ditches from the 7th to the 9th centuries, with a piece of Ipswich ware and c. forty pieces of Thetford ware. Other sherds dated to the 14th century making a total of 70 collected overall; this did include very abraded pieces of prehistoric pottery from the cleaning surface. The function of these small narrow ditches is yet to be ascertained (S2).