Resistivity survey following on from fieldwalking in 1997 located several linear features, and two small trenches were excavated by H Davies and J English and the GfdAG to investigate their nature. The features proved to be three ditches, seemingly parallel, and a small extension to one of the trenches located a short length of probable wall footing of large flint nodules keyed together but not mortared and cut into the ditch siltings. Small quantities of Bronze Age pottery were recovered, but most pottery proved to be Roman, the considerable quantity and unabraded nature of which indicates evidence of settlement at, or close to the trenches. Further excavation the following year revealed similar evidence of Romano-British settlement; and a considerable amount of calcined flint and grog-tempered pottery, probably of Late Bronze Age date, found in most contexts also points to prehistoric occupation in the area. (326, 330, 331, 332)