Big Community Dig 2022 at Norton Disney

"From 5th September 2022 until 16th September 2022 our group was excavating a site adjacent to the Norton Disney Roman Villa on Folly Lane, Norton Disney. We were working with our partners, Allen Archaeology, a well known commercial archaeology company to follow up on last year’s successful trial trenching on the site. The 20m x 20m trench over the Iron Age enclosure feature revealed a double ditch on the perimeter which terminated to an eastern gateway. Within this enclosure we found cooking pits, with associated fired cracked stones, pottery, flints, smelting slag and a couple of pieces of bone. The star finds were a “patch” or repair for a furnace made from fired clay and on the last day a base for a kiln or an oven or possibly a furnace.

Our volunteers worked hard to reveal so much and we are very grateful for all their hard work."

For much more information please visit the website 2022 Community Dig - Norton Disney History and Archaeology Group (nortondisneyhag.org)