In T19, excavation revealed linear features with pottery indicating activity firmly based in the late Iron Age/early Roman period.<1>
In the southern part of the trench, the upper fills of features F45, F53, F55 and F56 were identical and seemed to form an acute junction between two ditches. Finds suggest that F45 and F55 belonged to the same late Iron Age/early Roman phase of activity as nearby linear groups, and by association this is probably true of F53/F56. Three metres to the south, ditch F42 shards the same orientation as F45 and is assumed to be contemporary, although no datable finds were obtained from it. The outlines of F46, F47 and F58 were barely perceptible: early Iron Age/Roman pottery was recovered from F47 and F58 and they were revealed to be linear depressions set on a similar orientation to F42 and F45/F55. In the northern part of T19, an E to W linear group composed of intercutting features F48, F49 and F54 contained fragments of Roman ceramic building materials, including roof-tile. An E to W feature at the northern extremity of the trench (F59) appeared to be a flat-bottomed gully, probably of Roman date.