Throughout the excavation of Eccles Roman Villa, medieval pottery was found in the backfilling of various robber trenches. When mechanical trenches were cut to the south east of the villa's perimeter wall in 1973, the medieval site was discovered. The site consisted of a cobbled area, insubstantial foundations, three ditches, a shallow circular pit (1.275m in diameter) and 4 rectangular cesspits. Medieval pottery dating suggests the site was in use in the middle of the 13th century. It is possible that the building was a temporary structure connected with the stone-robbing of the site. In 1975 an excavation of a ditch seemed to indicate that it was built to drain one of the cesspits. Medieval occupation of the site has been disturbed by later ponds and the marshy make up of the area. In 1996 a geophysical survey found no evidence of the site extending to the north of the Eccles Villa.