Archaeologia Aeliana Series 5

NU 237171. A somewhat disturbed enclosed cremation cemetery was found to consist of a stone ring infilled with earth and brash containing one double cremation (14C-dated to 15th century bc) accompanied by a Collared Urn, three possible additional cremations and scraps of inhumed skull. The mound's resemblance to a Wessex Culture disc barrow proved only superficial. Whoever disturbed it about 1807 had left an arrangement of three horseshoes and a penny.

NZ 104554. Limited rescue excavation in the SE corner produced evidence for four timber phases and three of stone, possibly representing barracks, stores or workshops; the final building sheltered bronze-working. Pottery indicated two occupation phases Flavian to early Hadrianic, followed by abandonment and reoccupation in the mid-Antonine period, when the first stone buildings wcre erected and the defences remodelled. Pottery continues to late 4th-century. Appended reports treat coins, metalwork, glass, samian and coarse wares, and animal bones. Au(adp)