DITCHED ENCLOSURE SITE AT CORBETS TEY 125
Structures A, B, C and D are completely enclosed by the ditch
and the superimposition of B on D along with a form similarity
between A and B, and between C and D suggests at least two
periods of occupation whilst the ditch was functional. It seems
reasonable to relate A and B to the earliest ditch, Period 1; the
sub-rectangular structures C and D would then equate with the
second ditch, Period 2, and probably with the later recutting.
The likely dates for these associations are early 1st century, pre-
Roman for Period 1 and middle or late 1st century to early 2nd
century for Period 2. Then a period of disuse may be interposed.
Level 6 in the ditch represents such a period of misuse or lack of
maintenance and is followed by the Period 3 infilling and the con-
struction of structure E in the 3rd century.
2. The Burials—Fig. 7
As already noted a small cremation cemetery was discovered
in the vicinity of the house ditch. The burial groups numbered
four and were found in Squares 77/73 and 77/74.
Group 1. Comprised three items.
a. Butt beaker, hard, sandy, grey paste. Four zones of
decoration, separated by incised lines. Upper zone
burnished, two central zones with vertical combing,
lower coated with thin white slip. cf. Camulodunum
type 119 B and C ........................ Claudian / Neronic
b. Cup—soft, sandy grey paste. Made from a larger
vessel by removal of upper part.
c. Bowl, wide mouthed with formed neck, dark burnished
finish, vestigial foot ring. cf. Camulodunum type
221 B ....................................... Claudian/Neronic
Group 2. Reported as containing only the broken base of a pot,
not seen.
Group 3. One item only.
Flagon. Soft orange paste with a thin cream slip. A
Roman type of vessel, cf. Camulodunum type 140 D
and 141 A ..................... Claudian/Neronic-Flavian
Group 4. Three items.
a. Narrow mouthed jar, hard sandy light grey paste, wheel
made and tooled, cf. Camulodunum type 231 A and
234 B ....................................... Claudian/Neronic
b. Bowl, soft brownish paste, polished black surface. cf.
Camulodunum type 221 B and 222 ... Claudian/Neronic
c. Cup, copy of Drag. form 27. Grey paste, polished black
surface. cf. Richborough I form 45, Richborough III
form 226 and 227 also Springhead Site B, fig. 8, 4 ......
Neronic-Flavian