During a watching brief, a large area of black soil and charcoal, the fill of two joining ditches, was recorded. A further backfilled ditch, continuing the alignment of an existing water-filled ditch, was also observed. The ditch appeared to have been deliberately partially backfilled, as its primary fill contained limestone rubble. Two artefact scatters were recorded, one of red fired clay with wattle impressions, the second a scatter of mostly medieval (with some post-medieval) pottery sherds. The sherds were interpreted as domestic waste spread onto the field.{1}{2} A subsequent excavation was carried out in two distinct areas. Area A - Further finds of fired clay were recorded in this area. These were mainly recovered from the fill of a well and from several natural depressions. Several further sherds of pottery were also recorded. The well was approximately 2m north-west/south-east, with steep, irregular sides and a flat base. The fill of fired clay was interpreted as a rubbish deposit tipped into the abandoned feature, or possibly used to consolidate the ground around the edge of the well. The primary fill of the well contained burnt cereals grains, fired clay fragments, a piece of wood (possibly part of a plank), beans, and small roundwood charcoal. The fill of a tree bole and of several natural depressions also contained burnt material and fired clay. A furrow, aligned east-west, at the northern end of Area A contained three sherds of 14th-16th century pottery in its fill.{1}{2} Area B - Two joining ditches, at a 90 degree angle, forming a 'T'-shape, were found to be contemporary. The ditch forming the shaft of the 'T' was aligned west-south-west/east-north-east, while the ditch forming the bar of the 'T' was aligned north-north-west/south-south-east. The fills of these ditches highlight three main events which occurred while the ditches were still open. Immediately after the digging of the ditches, part of the waste from a period of burning of mainly straw or chaff was spread into the bases of both ditches and one side of one ditch. This was followed by deliberate backfilling with dumped clay containing burnt material, and further deliberate backfilling with demolition deposits containing fired clay, wattling and corner pieces, suggestive of a walled structure with corners. A curvilinear ditch, two later medieval furrows, and two postholes from which the posts had been removed and one deliberately backfilled with demolition deposits, were also recorded. All of these features, except the later furrows, appear to relate to a single phase of activity dating to either the 9th and 10th or 11th and 12th centuries, characterised by the digging of several features, a large amount of burning, and the deposition of a large amount of fired clay with straw or grass impressions.{1}{2} The fired clay from both excavation areas is postulated to be from a single structure, of wattle and daub construction, although no evidence of the structure itself was present within the excavation area. The structure (or structures) probably had an agricultural function, and may have been a barn. A catastrophic burning event appears to have taken place, concentrated within the structure, destroying both the structure itself, and an unprocessed cereal harvest.{1}{2}