Middle Bronze Age and Roman field systems: Excavations at Monks Farm (Phase 2), Grove, Oxfordshire (OASIS ID: oxfordar1-411020)

A second phase of excavation at Monks Farm, Grove, has revealed continuations of the middle Bronze Age field system partially exposed in the earlier excavation, and parts of a Roman field system. The middle Bronze Age features include a continuation of the trackway revealed in Phase 1 and a related series of rectilinear field boundaries. A penannular gully appears to have been a focus of middle Bronze Age occupation. The Roman field system contains an unusual field containing a series of closely set parallel gullies. Whilst this arrangement can be compared to 'lazybeds' perhaps used elsewhere for irrigation related to horticulture, it is suggested that here they may have been used for drainage. The prehistoric and Roman features were overlain by the truncated remains of ridge and furrow and more recent land drains