A fieldwalking survey on 14.5ha of land scheduled for mineral extraction, recovered Roman tile and brick in sufficient quantity to suggest the presence of one or more buildings in the vicinity. The finds included one small piece of 2nd-to 3rd-century combed box tile, from the northern end of the field. Although lacking in strong surface concentrations, the distribution pattern displayed an emphasis toward the north-western corner of the survey area. Elsewhere, there was an increased incidence of the material in parts of the central area, but too slight establish any firm association with cropmark features which occur in that part of the field. Only one sherd of Roman pottery was recovered; a small and heavily eroded fragment of a Samian base.
Other finds included a light scatter of flint tools, cores and flakes mainly representative of later Neolithic to early (or possibly middle) Bronze Age activity. The flints were found in a broad scatter over the northern and central parts of the field, but were absent from the southern area. <1>