DITCHED ENCLOSURE SITE AT CORBETS TEY 131
Two fragments of a loom weight. Made of a now much
eroded calcareous sandstone probably derived from the Greensand
series.
Group 17.
39.
40.
41.
42.
43.
Group 19.
44-54
(excluding
46).
46.
Square 80/76.
Sandy grey clay, interior surface red, exterior black.
Sandy grey clay with shell temper, internal surface
red, exterior black.
Coarse shell tempered brown clay, interior surface
red, exterior black.
Dark grey clay, wheel made with burnished band on
shoulder.
Buff clay with incised decoration.
Rubbish Spread A.
These are all wheel made vessels in a hard sandy
grey clay with or without a slight burnished slip on
the surface, which is of a pale grey.
Wheel made vessel of hard grey clay with a black
burnished slip.
Group 20. Unstratified. Fig. 6.
Large Jar
Dark grey paste, hand made. Base pierced by small
holes made after firing. Reconstructed.
Small Jar (thumb pot)
Dark grey paste, hand made. Recovered intact from
working face of gravel pit.
BROOCH. Fig. 5.
Bronze bow brooch, length 60 mm. Weakly curved bow, cross
moulding above and below the side wings. Side wings snowed
traces of niello inlay.
SUMMARY
The removal of topsoil during gravel digging operations
revealed a considerable area of ditched enclosures. By means of
selective excavation of the ditches and careful clearing of the main
enclosed area, the site was identified as a Romano British farm-
stead of simple huts, occupied throughout the 1st century and
during the 3rd century.