Finds from the ditch included pottery, one copper-alloy coin and one silver coin. The pottery was all Roman, and dated from the 1st to 3rd century AD. The two coins date from the late 2nd century to the early 3rd century. Other material recovered from the feature included iron nails, animal bone and Roman ceramic building material. The finds indicate that the feature is of Roman origin, probably a ditch. However, there was much disturbance and mixing of the fill of the feature with natural subsoil by what appeared to be animal burrows and plant-root activity. As a result, it is possible that the finds may have been brought into the feature by animal or plant-root activity (although it is more likely that the feature represents the remains of a Roman ditch). <1>