Monument record MDO630 - Iron Age/Romano-British settlement, Bedmill Copse, Castleton

Roman occupation evidence recovered from the site during excavatioin of trial holes includes pottery from the later Iron age to late Roman period. Coins from the site span the period from around AD 222 to 383.

Much evidence of a Romano-British settlement occurs at ST 61001470, on both sides of the railway where it cuts through Bedmill Copse. Trial holes have revealed Iron Age C pottery, traces of walls, wattle and daub, native Romano-British pottery and Samian. Coins range from 222 to 383 AD. Ploughing has produced several shallow burials at ST 60501463, non sufficiently intact to give any dating evidence although one skeleton appeared to have an iron spiral toe ring. A few flint scrapers and arrow-heads have been found to the south of the site. <1> Bedmill Copse and surrounding fields are on level, low-lying formerly marshy ground, which has now been drained. Nothing of interest was noted during a perambulation of the area and no finds were made from the black earth. Mr Loxton of Wyke farm, and tenant farmers at Silverlake farm, who jointly farm the land, knew nothing of the discoveries noted by Bean, and had made no finds themselves. <2>

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