Evaluation of farm buildings at the west side of the farm complex have been identified by the surveyor/author as being of "a very early date". He suggests that these stone buildings are "certainly pre-twelfth century and no later than the fourteenth, but they may go back as far as the eighth century". A limited walkover survey around Merriams Farm, as part of historic survey, identified a number of possible Roman ceramics and pottery sherds as well as possible early Medieval pottery to the south of the farm buildings. The exact location of the finds is not known and the finds were left in situ.