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Pits, post-holes and ditches of post-medieval date, and field boundary and drainage ditches of possible medieval date, recorded during monitoring and excavation by Headland Archaeology in 2021 (NO43SE0117) during topsoil stripping for a compound and HDD area associated with onshore transmission works. In the compound area these included 28 square cut post-holes aligned in a L-plan, suggesting a fence line rather than structural feature. The holes were generally 0.36 m square and 0.25 m deep. The southern end likely continued beyond the extent of the excavation. Some 2 m to the west was a parallel north-south shallow intermittent ditch, 0.6 m wide and 0.15 m deep, thought most likely to have been a plough furrow. Further west were two pits either side of a post-hole. A single sherd of medieval glazed pottery was recovered from one of the pits. A larger pit further west contained no artefacts and may be tree bole. Another pit close to the southwestern corned of the investigated area measured 1.4 m by 0.5 m, with maximum depth 0.25 m, and yielded a single poorly preserved animal bone. During monitoring of the topsoil a possible crucible, a pivot stone and a concentration of medieval pottery (from a relatively small area) were recovered. Topsoil stripping of the HDD area to the east uncovered several linear features, those in the eastern part pf this area thought to comprise plough furrows, and at least some of those in the western part of the HDD area interpreted as medieval enclosure ditches (similar to earlier investigations recorded to the west, see NO53SW0062).
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