Current Work Programme - Summer 2006

1. Chapel Site - to continue excavation of graves in west area of graveyard and
   within the chancel.
   
   This is to further the research aim of proving the hypothesis that the chapel is
   in fact sitting on a much earlier ritual/burial site, dating back to the middle-late
   Bronze Age (1500-800BC).
   
   The graveyard has begun to produce increasing quantities of Bronze Age pottery
   (1100-900 BC) as well as human cremated bone.
   
   Geophysics of the surrounding area has revealed several circular and sub-circular
   features that may prove to be satellite features of the known ring-ditches to the north.

2. To further the idea, through excavation of the south wall of the 1^st phase
   chapel, that the site is of Anglo-Saxon origin i.e.pre-conquest (1066).

3. Building to the north of Chapel - large rubble spread to be investigated to
   determine function and age of structure (which appears on 1650 Estate
   Map). The area has already produced large quantities of Medieval pottery and
   tile, as well as some large fragments of rather graphic decorated Roman
   Samian Ware. To the east of the structure is the continuation of the line of the
   extensive Roman ditch that bisected the Bronze Age Ring-Ditch to the north
   and which underlay the chancel of the chapel to the south.
   

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