South Farm, Lightwater

Sixth season of excavation by G H Cole for SHAHT. Two distinct areas were examined. In the first a rectangular well was found and dated to before AD 200; it was severely disturbed by a ditch whose fill was dated cAD 200-250 and by the construction of a cesspit of cAD 1780. The second area produced worked flint dated Mesolithic/Neolithic and a barbed and tanged arrowhead. Late Iron Age pottery was found and part of a late 1st or early 2nd century AD Romanised building indicated by beam slots and said to have sand or gravel floors. Parts of five rooms, one with a hearth, and a laid flint hardstanding were found. The evidence for the building was much damaged by later features. Various ditches and pits of 3rd to 4th century date were also found. A coin provisionally identified as of Addedomaros and the probable importance of ironworking on the site are also noted. (253; 256)
Year: 
1990
ID: 
1711
NGR: 
SU927626
Report location: 
SyAS
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