Monument record 4219 - Romano British Farmstead in Great Budworth

<1> Earthworks Archaeological Services, 1998, Nether Tabley to Winnington, Cheshire. Construction of a New Gas Pipeline. A Programme of Archaeological Investigations. (Client Report). SCH4322.

An archaeological excavation was carried out on this area prior to the construction of a new gas pipeline. The trenches were targeted over cropmarks and anomalies reavealed by geophysical survey. The remains clearly formed only a small part of the settlement area and included part of a probable enclosure ditch and a pit, most likely constituent parts of a Romano-British farmstead. The finds recovered included pottery fragments, several coins, lead weights/spindle-whorls and an enamelled brooch. The dating of the pottery is imprecise but suggests that the main period of activity on the site occurred during the second and third centuries AD.