Monument record WLD 001 - All Saints Churchyard (Rom)

TM 2827 4423 Belgic pottery (double-cordon bowls, butt beaker and storage vessels) found in digging graves on S edge of new extension to churchyard (formerly arable land) - graves of H C Leech 1978 and A E Edgar 1984 to 1985. The latter grave also produced about 30 fragments of clay moulds representing 2 or 3 terrets of Westhall type and possibly a strap-union plate, all mid C1. Pottery is also being eroded out of the S edge of the new churchyard where it abuts an old sand pit (S1). Rom storage jar sherds are also said to have been found (S2). The urn base, said to be BA (S2), is probably a Belgic storage vessel base.
TM 2825 4422 Two trial trenches were dug in October 1985 adjacent to the findspot of the late IA clay mould fragments. These revealed that there had been a 0.9m build up of soil since C1 - the presence of peg tile fragments in the build up suggests a Med or later date for the accumulation. Sherds of Rom pottery were found in one trench, whilst in the other, closest to the original findspot, the edge of a pit was discovered, which contained a few small fragments of flint gritted IA pottery and some possible mould fragments. It seems likely that all the mould fragments were originally in this pit, now unfortunately largely destroyed by a grave (S5). See also IA, Sax, Med.
Seemingly identical to record sf728? (Clare McLannahan, 17/06/05)