Small enclosure complex, hut circle inside. (1) (2)
W of Wild Goose Cottage, cropmarks of a cluster of 3 subrectangular enclosures, probably of Ro date, 0.4Ha in area overall. The largest, c 0.22 Ha in area, has 2 concentric circles, probably round houses, 15.0 and 7.0m in diameter. (2)
Morph: 145.14.1 enclosure, 145.14.2 hut circle, 145.14.3 paddock. Ro farmstead (3)
[Resistivity survey] showed the same features as on the aerial photographs; no new ones were recognised. [From fieldwalking] grey wares were the predominant type with a calcite gritted sherd, probably of C1 BC / C1 AD, and a colour coated sherd which could date from late C2 onwards. The metal detector survey produced two fragments of head stud brooches of C2 / C3 and a coin, possibly C1 / C2. The artefacts were found concentrated within the W part of the cropmark enclosures. On excavation, the uppermost fills of the ditches of the W enclosure appear to contain more RB artefacts; the W enclosure could be later and/or had been filled from domestic rubbish deposits. It is tempting to suggest that the calcite gritted sherds from enclosure ditch 0010 came from the earlier tradition [C1 BC to AD] and were replaced in function by grey wares just as the large enclosure ditch was replaced in function by a series of slots. (4)
See M6219 for Ro well, L5025 - cropmarks to NE. See SMR map.

All trace of the enclosure and associated features was effectively destroyed in the gravel extraction process, where over two metres of ‘overburden’, consisting of the more clayey sand and gravel component, were cleared from the site before mining (5)

Data Held: Aerial Photograph (Aerial photograph). SNT2645.

DNR 1554/9

Data Held: Aerial Photograph (Aerial photograph). SNT2645.

DNR 1013/15

Data Held: Aerial Photograph (Aerial photograph). SNT2645.

DNR 1076/16

Archaeol Anthropol Sci, 2018, Caught in a trap: landscape and climate implications of the insect fauna from a Roman well in Sherwood Forest (Published document). SNT5332.

<1> Riley DN, Air photos (Aerial photograph). SNT1194.

Other Refs: 1013/15,16, 1554/9, 1076/16 (NLAP SK 7087/9,10,18,27)

<2> Riley DN, 1980, Early Landscapes from the Air, pp 49,54,117 (Published document). SNT1197.

<3> RCHME, National Mapping Programme, Notts - Morph Data (Unknown). SNT1470.

<4> TPAT, 07/1990, An Assessment of the Archaeological Potential of Cropmark Sites around Wild Goose Cottage, Lound, pp 7, 8, 10, 14, 15 (Unpublished document). SNT2068.

<5> Data Held: Aerial Photograph, p. 126 (Aerial photograph). SNT2645.

DNR 1013/16