Data from an Archaeological Trial Trench Evaluation at Fleet Marston Cottages, Bicester Road East, Buckinghamshire, 2017-2018 (HS2 Phase One)

This collection comprises the reports, site drawings, animal bone recording data, and photographic archive from an archaeological trial trench evaluation at Fleet Marston Cottages (Bicester Road East) Buckinghamshire, undertaken by COPA between 17th December 2017 and 25th January 2018. The documentary and finds archives will be deposited with Discover Bucks Museum. The results of the evaluation confirmed the presence of late Bronze Age to Iron Age activity on the Site. The archaeological remains from Trenches 17 and 25 indicate the presence of two possible late Bronze Age to Iron Age enclosures. In 2009 these enclosure ditches were found to contain late Iron Age and Roman pottery so may have gone out of use by this date. The 2009 and 2017 evaluation also encountered a number of other external boundary ditches and smaller linear ditches which may be related to this later prehistoric (most likely Iron Age) settlement.