Current Projects
Stapleton, Martock
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Over the past five years SSARG have been investigating this site to discover more about a Roman building discovered in 2013. A series of test pits in 2014 targeted anomalies detected by geophysics, one of which uncovered a Roman grain dryer which was later excavated in 2017. In 2016 we uncovered a Roman midden and collapsed building. We hope to return to the site next year to continue our geophysical survey work.
Excavated Roman grain dryer dating to the late 2nd/early 3rd century.
Penselwood
SSARG along with the Penselwood Local History Group have recently carried out geophysics followed by test pitting in a field that includes some of the the mysterious "Pen Pits". These are a series of collapsed pits (possibly quern quarries) covering an area of nearly 300 hectares. The test pits were located on geophysical linear anomalies and uncovered Iron Age and Roman ditches.
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Section through Middle Iron Age ditch.
Wincanton
SSARG have recently carried out a gradiometer survey over an artefact scatter in a field near Wincanton. The results suggest a significant multi-phase site. Test pitting last Summer revealed a series of Roman and Iron Age ditches.
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