Excavations at Rossington Grange Farm, South Yorkshire

Abstract

Archaeological investigations to the south of Rossington Grange Farm saw the excavation of two Early Bronze Age ring barrows, one containing two cremations, each within a collared urn. A different area, of limited earlier prehistoric activity, became the site of a later Iron Age and Roman enclosure complex, which developed in an incremental way around a large primary enclosure. The development of the enclosure complex was to some extent dictated by the creation of a surrounding field system, established in the late first and early second centuries AD. By the late Roman period, activity within the enclosure complex was focused on a series of small sub-enclosures, seemingly associated with small-scale pottery production and crop processing.