Winscombe/Banwell Parish boundary.
This boundary ditch partly follows the course of an ancient stream. Most of the features noted above lie in the fields immediately to its north, below Banwell Wood. The ditch was re-cut in 1999 and the opportunity was taken at the time to draw the entire face of the ditch below the settlement. Many features including foundations, ditches, the cross section of a road and a series of large pits were recorded. The remains of a primitive bridge across the ditch (date undetermined) were recorded before being destroyed.
Series of pits and postholes.
These were identified when the parish boundary ditch was re-cut. Four were evident following a curve in the line of the boundary ditch. One of these was investigated and proved to be a circular pit, with a posthole about 20cm in diameter cut into the fill. There was no dating evidence except a very abraded piece of black burnished ware on the top surface. The cut of the ditch has destroyed most of the pit, but it is probable that a Romano-British occupation layer overlies the feature. A resistivity survey has indicated the possibility that the line of pits follows the inside of a curved feature about 3m wide continuing from the ditch and into the field for over 100m.
Finds
Pottery from the late Iron Age to the 4th Century. Quern stones. Bone and antler. Three coins. Flint and stone tools.
