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Fig. 15: Medieval Field Systems and Post medieval Features 
Medieval Activity (Figure 15) 
Ridge and furrow was found over the entire site, 
running both north-east/south-west and north- 
west/south-east. Two irregular ditches approxi- 
mately 60 m apart lay to the south of the middle 
Bronze Age enclosure. These both ran NE-SW 
and the space which they enclosed may have 
formed some kind of stock enclosure. These may 
be related to further linear ditches, possibly 
defining enclosures to the west of the ridge and 
furrow. 
Post-Medieval Activity (Figure 15) 
A rectangular enclosure measuring approximately 
120 m by 60 m overlay the more irregular medieval 
field boundaries. To the west of this feature, 
defining the western limit of the ridge and furrow, 
was a series of north-west/south-east orientated 
ditches, that in places appeared to define a trackway 
running along the edge of the medieval field 
system. Despite this, its fills produced more Post- 
medieval than medieval pottery. A substantial stone 
lined drainage culvert orientated north-west/south- 
east lay to the west of these ditches. 
THE FINDS 
The Pottery 
by Fane Timby 
Introduction 
An assemblage of some 1158 sherds of pottery 
weighing 10.1 kg was recovered. Whilst the bulk of 
the assemblage, some 963 sherds, 83% by count, 
dates to the middle Bronze Age, sherds of Iron Age, 
medieval and Post-medieval date are also present. 
The pottery is of variable condition; substantial 
parts of vessels were present alongside isolated 
sherds but the nature of the fabrics has led to 
considerable fragmentation. Certain contexts 
produced just small crumbs. 
Methodology 
The assemblage was sorted into fabrics on the basis 
of macroscopically visible inclusions present in the 
