4.80m wide by c.7m long. This area had unfortunately been very badly disturbed by later activity including the laying of drains and other below-ground services.
   This ditch system may suggest that a structure had originally occupied this area, although no definite evidence in the form of post-holes or other structural elements for this was forthcoming. Very little cultural material was recovered from the ditch fills with three sherds of flint-tempered Late Iron-Age pottery retrieved from fill [263] of the northern E-W aligned ditch and a number of post-conquest sherds from the basal fill [311] of the N-S aligned ditch.
   Seven sub-circular post-holes with diameters of between 0.30-0.60m and depths of between 0.25 and 0.45m can also be included in this phase. Four of these [F11], [F13], [F59] and [F60], were located to the north of E-W ditch F101, may represent an irregular timber post structure, further elements of which may have been removed with the cutting of F101. Fragments of Roman brick together with small fragments of calcined flint were recovered from deposits [127] and [131], the fills of F11 and F13 respectively. F48 located on the western edge of the excavation, [F70] on the eastern side and [F39] toward the southern limit of the site represent single posts with no definite function. Immediately to the south of F48 four stake-holes were identified [F46, F47, F50 and F51]. No meaningful arrangement or structure was definable, although further elements may lie to the west, beyond the limits of the excavation. A further stake-hole [F61] located some 9m south of the main cluster, was also identified although this appeared to be an isolated feature.
   Twelve features of varying shape and dimensions were investigated to the north of ditch F101 and included shallow, sub-circular pits, rectilinear ‘troughs’ or gullies and a possible square-sectioned ditch or drain. Two of these features [F45 and F49] which lay on the periphery of the group, were discrete in nature, while the remaining eight possessed relationships with other features. F49 was located on the eastern side of the excavation and consisted of an irregular elongated cut 1.49m long, 0.90m wide and a maximum depth at the eastern limit of the excavation of 0.40m. F45 was located on the western side of the site and consisted of a sub-circular cut 1.20m long, 0.94m wide and 0.39m deep, the fill of which [202], produced a sherd of flint-tempered pottery and a small fragment of Roman tile.
   The earliest of the eight features representing a sequence of pits and gullies in the north-eastern corner of the site [F62] was a small pit roughly circular in shape with a diameter of 0.86m and a depth of .75m. This feature contained a single stoney fill [250] which produced no cultural material. F62 was cut on its eastern side by a similar although slightly wider pit [F57] which possessed a concave profiled cut with a diameter of c.1m and a depth of 0.58m, and contained a single fill [242] again devoid