Neatham Manor Farm, Alton, Hampshire - Post-excavation Assessment

Wessex Archaeology

Wessex Archaeology was commissioned to undertake archaeological mitigation works comprising a strip, map and sample excavation centred on NGR 474200 140534, at Neatham Manor Farm, Alton, Hampshire, GU34 4NP.

The earliest evidence of activity on site was provided by a small quantity of worked flint, including a fragment of an Early Neolithic polished axe, retrieved from subsoil or found residually in later features. Two parallel ditches, aligned north-east to south-west and approximately 30 m apart, provide limited evidence for Romano-British settlement. An adjacent quarry pit, for gravel, could have been contemporary with the trackway/branch road, or it may have been a later, medieval feature. Features broadly dated to the medieval period contained pottery assemblages spanning the 11th– 15th-centuries.