EDO4231 - Trumpet Major I, Excavation Trench W.

To the west of The Trumpet Major, Alington Avenue, Wessex Archaeology cut three trenches within an overgrown coppice prior to development as two houses. The western Trench revealed a Romano-British ditch. The NE trench contained late Iron Age droveway ditches and a crouched burial. The southern trench contained a series of LIA/early RB settlement ditches and 2 crouched burials. Trench W (western trench) showed few ancient features cut into the chalk, though a shallow ditch running roughly N-S can perhaps be associated with with the Romano-British droveway and field system to the south.