Neolithic Pits and Middle Iron Age Settlement at Salisbury Road, Marlborough

Excavation by Oxford Archaeology on the southern outskirts of Marlborough uncovered a probable
early Neolithic pit, a late Neolithic pit that contained a deposit of worked flint and Grooved Ware
pottery, and part of a middle Iron Age settlement. The settlement evidence comprised eight substantial
storage pits, two of which had possible deliberately-placed deposits at the base. A pair of parallel
ditches were not well dated but may have enclosed the settlement or, perhaps more likely, defined a
trackway leading to a Roman villa that has been identified from cropmark evidence in the field to the
south. A Roman coin was recovered from the topsoil and some undated human remains were found
nearby by a member of the public