At the eastern limit of excavation, a very large pit (F12) with a fill containing numerous inclusions and finds, cut the edge of the gravel layers. The bottom of the pit was not excavated as it was below the contractor's formation level. During the reduction of F12 within the excavation area, numerous finds including pot, tile, animal bone, glass, iron objects and a bone pin were recovered. The pottery from the pit was predominantly late Roman as were the small finds. However, fragments of late medieval/early post-medieval pot have been identified in the assemblage. This suggests that either the pit is late Roman in date with a later medieval/post-medieval feature cut into it that was not discernable due a similarity of the fills, or that it was a medieval/post-medieval pit that cut a late Roman feature subsuming the finds from this feature.
A similar pattern was identified in the finds of another large, if relatively shallow, pit (F10). This pit was cut into the gravels and had been subsequently cut by F12. Finds included copper-alloy objects, pot counters, worked stone, a marble mosaic cube and a substantial quantity of late Roman pottery. However, two pieces of medieval pot and fragments of peg tile were also recovered. Due to the large area and shallow depth of F10, it is also possible that it may have been an erosion hollow in the gravel surface that filled with dark earth.<1>

Seven small pits or post-holes cut into the gravel surface (F7a, F8, F13, F16, F17, F18 & F28) were interpreted as post-Roman based on artefacts recovered from some of the features and the similarity of the dark fills in the features to the overlying dark earth (L11).

It was not possible to discern archaeological features cut into the dark earth (MCC3080) although it is likely many of these features were cut whilst the darth earth layer was accumulating.