The second week started with scorching hot weather, but we were soon experiencing the joys of British summertime, mostly sunshine and showers.

However work is progressing well with all three major trenches under excavation. The ditches and small features in Trench 1600 had been recorded and drawn at the end of last week so excavation on these feature could be started. The ditch on the western side of the trapezoid enclosure is being sectioned on both sides of the trench to gain the maximum amount of information. The ditch had been cut by a post-medieval field drain, which can be seen in the picture below running from the bottom left hand corner of the photograph. The finds indicate that this was being filled in the late Iron Age.

A small circular feature seen just to the west of this ditch (outside the enclosure) was also partially excavated to reveal a possible late Bronze Age cremation burial. Unfortunately this has been badly damaged by later ploughing and only a few sherds of pottery and fragments of charred bone have been recovered (see below).

In trench 3000 work has continued on excavating the gullies that were found in the previous year. 

By the end of the week this area had been completed and the profile of the double drip gullies was very clear (below).

And the road that crossed the site and sealed these gullies could be clearly seen. This has a very obvious edge on the eastern side because it was partially laid over a previous ditch.

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