From 5th September 2022 until 16th September 2022 our group was excavating a site adjacent to the Norton Disney Roman Villa on Folly Lane, Norton Disney. We were working with our partners, Allen Archaeology, a well known commercial archaeology company to follow up on last year’s successful trial trenching on the site. The 20m x 20m trench over the Iron Age enclosure feature revealed a double ditch on the perimeter which terminated to an eastern gateway. Within this enclosure we found  cooking pits, with associated fired cracked stones, pottery, flints, smelting slag and a couple of pieces of bone. The star finds were a “patch” or repair for a furnace made from fired clay and on the last day a base for a kiln or an oven or possibly a furnace.

Our volunteers worked hard to reveal so much and we are very grateful for all their hard work.

We also hoped the public enjoyed the open day on 10th September. In the space of just four hours 56 people came to see the site and find out about our discoveries. The event was part of the National Heritage Open Days which allows members of the public to see local heritage that would not normally be open to them. In our case an Iron Age enclosure.

We are currently awaiting a report being written and finds being evaluated so it may be a few weeks yet before the final results are known.

Once the final report is available we will be publishing it online.- Watch this space for updates!

Over the coming weeks more finds will be appearing on the “Finds 22” page. Click here to see them 

If you would like to experience a fly through of the “dig site” then you can watch a video click here