Late Iron Age to Roman features including pits, ditches, slots, post-holes and 2 hearths. Small finds included pottery, daub, animal bone ceramic building material and flint. Scatter of pottery sherd in a colluvial depsoit. A dense area of occupational featues were recorde in the centre of the site consisting of pits two hearths and structural elements such as slots, post holes and ditches. Undated features such as a hearth with associated working surface and serveral successive boundary ditches possibly also date to this period.

Pottery is a mixture of shell-, grog-, glaudconite-, sand- and patchgrove grog- tempered fabrics as well a Samian ware. Ceramic building material included Roman roof tiles (tegula). (1, 2)

Additional bibliography. (3-5)

<1> Museum of London Archaeology Service, 1997, West of Northumberland Bottom: An Archaeological Evaluation (Unpublished document). SKE15668.

<2> Museum of London Archaeology Service, 1997, West of Northumberland Bottom: An Archaeological Evaluation - Interim Report (Unpublished document). SKE15669.

<3> Oxford Wessex Archaeology Joint Venture, 2005, The Late Iron Age and Roman Pottery from Excavations Along Section 1 of the CTRL (Unpublished document). SKE16488.

<4> Oxford Wessex Archaeology Joint Venture, 2005, The Post-Roman Pottery from Excavations Along Section 1 of the CTRL (Unpublished document). SKE16487.

<5> Oxford Wessex Archaeology Joint Venture, 2006, Radiocarbon dates from Section 1 of the Channel Tunnel Rail Link, Kent (Unpublished document). SKE16490.