Flixton Quarry (vol. 2)

The excavations at Flixton revealed an extensive multi-period landscape with significant monuments dating to the Neolithic (long barrow) and Early Bronze Age (ring ditches). There was a small group of Middle Bronze Age cremation burials and an extensive rectilinear field system. Settlement evidence from the Late Bronze Age comprised circular timber buildings, and four- or six-post square and rectangular structures that continued to be built into the Early Iron Age. Significant Iron Age/Roman remains included three post-built structures probably representing large granaries, two pottery kilns, and a multiple burial dating to the 1st century AD. Metalwork finds hint at military contact at this time. Also revealed was an Early Anglo-Saxon settlement with timber halls and sunken-featured buildings, perhaps contemporary with the cemeteries reported in Volume I. medieval activity comprised a rectangular enclosure within which was a small square enclosure and a central pit. There were also Post-medieval ditched field boundaries, many of which could be related to old maps and to the farmland and the park surrounding Flixton Hall. World War I training trenches and latrine pits were also found.