BATH ROAD COMPLEX


Description:  A cropmark complex near Ufton Nervet. Excavations uncovered a late Iron Age enclosure containing pits and an early Roman enclosure containing buildings; other enclosures were added during the Roman period and the site was occupied up to the 3rd century AD. A villa was supposedly seen on aerial photographs though nothing was found during excavations. A 5th-6th century Anglo-Saxon grubenhaus was also uncovered. A mound suggested to represent the remains of a Bronze Age bell barrow was the only earthwork extant by the 1960s. Cropmarks allegedly representing a causewayed enclosures were noted on aerial photographs. However, it is not clear which features were being referred to and nothing of Neolithic date appears to have been found during excavations. It had been claimed that a quantity of Neolithic flints had been found in the vicinity, but the bulk of the lithic finds appears to have been of Mesolithic date.

Country:  ENGLAND

County:  BERKSHIRE

District:  WEST BERKSHIRE

Parish:  UFTON NERVET

Grid Reference:   SU617690

Map Reference:  [EPSG:27700] 461700, 169000

Period:  BRONZE AGE, EARLY MEDIEVAL, MESOLITHIC, NEOLITHIC, UNCERTAIN, ROMAN, LATE IRON AGE

Subject:  BELL BARROW, BUILDING, CAUSEWAYED ENCLOSURE, CROPMARK, EARTHWORK, ENCLOSURE, FIND, FINDSPOT, GRUBENHAUS, LITHIC IMPLEMENT, MICROBURIN, RECTILINEAR ENCLOSURE, RING DITCH, SUB SURFACE DEPOSIT, TRANCHET AXEHEAD, TRANSVERSE ARROWHEAD, VESSEL, VILLA

Identifiers: 
[ADS] Depositor Id: SU 66 NW 7
[ADS] Import RCN: NMR_NATINV-240931

People Involved: 
[Publisher] Historic England