Continuing excavation by G Hayman of SCAU south of those areas excavated in previous years revealed further features of Bronze Age, Iron Age and Roman date. The Bronze Age features consisted mostly of ditches belonging to a co-axial field system that developed during the Late Bronze Age, but also included one large pit and a small pit or posthole. The field system has been traced across all areas of the quarry that have been examined since work began in 1999 and extends for an unknown distance beyond it. The Iron Age features consisted of complete and partial ring gullies, various ditches, pits and postholes, and a large water-hole. Some of the ring gullies are assumed to indicate the position of roundhouses, although no internal features relating to these survived, but others were too small for this and may have enclosed some other form of structure (such as a grain store) or been of funerary significance. The ring gullies were not enclosed by any of the ditches found and appear to have belonged to an open settlement area. The finds mostly belonged to the Late Iron Age, though a small number of contexts may have been of earlier origin. Occupation appears to have continued into the Roman period with no break in continuity, the transitional period being represented by features and a large assemblage of pottery. The Roman period is represented by a large number of ditches, various pits and postholes, and seventeen excavated water-holes. Many of the ditches discovered were in use during the late 1st century AD, some of these probably having origins in the Late Iron Age, and belong to a system of fields and enclosures that developed across a substantial area throughout the Roman period. Ten of the postholes discovered (some of these in 2002) belonged to a rectangular building measuring approximately 12 x 6m that dates to the 2nd century AD. The very substantial depth of these postholes suggested that the building they supported may have had more than one storey, though it was not clear whether this was a dwelling or another structure such as a barn or granary.