A39/B3116 Road Improvements (Two Headed Man Junction), Marksbury, Somerset

Five evaluation trenches were targeted upon several geophysical anomalies
identified at the site of a proposed road junction development. The ditches
of two enclosures were exposed in the northern half of the site. One of these
remains undated, while the other is tentatively dated to the late Iron
Age/early Roman period. Two sections of a ring ditch were exposed in the
southern half of the site and appear to relate to a ploughed-out round
barrow. In the centre of the site, the course of the scheduled West Wansdyke
earthwork was exposed but not further excavated. Rubble representing the
core of the bank was consistent with evidence found during other local
excavations, and possibly suggests that the earthwork here had a stone
revetment. All the features excavated at the site appear to have suffered
from later truncation.