Corunna Barracks, Ludgershall, Wiltshire - Post-excavation Assessment

Wessex Archaeology

The excavation revealed widespread horizontal truncation and occasional areas of intense modern disturbance. Despite this, a limited range and number of archaeological features were identified, excavated and recorded.

Such features related to two distinct phases of activity. The earliest of these phases was evidenced in the form of a substantial late prehistoric ditch. The date and function of the ditch could not be conclusively determined, although it is most likely to represent part of an Early–Middle Iron Age enclosure, which may have surrounded a settlement.

The second phase of activity was represented by a group of 14 graves containing inhumation burials. These formed a small cemetery of probable mid-late Romano-British date (AD 120-410), which presumably contained the remains of the inhabitants of a nearby, rural settlement.

No other features contemporary with either phase of activity were present on the site, although a small quantity of residual artefactual material, including worked flint and late prehistoric and Romano-British pottery was recovered from later depositional contexts.