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Saxon Bonners Lane and Oxford Street
An early-middle Anglo-Saxon sunken featured building (SFB) measuring 5.54m by at least 3.5m was excavated at Bonners Lane in 1993. Eight substantial post holes were cut into the base of the sunken feature. Fifteen stakeholes, were also identified at irregular intervals around the edge of the sunken feature, between these post holes. 12 sherds of early-middle Anglo-Saxon pottery were recovered from the feature, along with a near complete double-sided composite bone comb and a bone beating pin.
Just 30 metres to the east of the Bonners Lane site, on the east side of Oxford Street, fieldwork in 1997 identified another SFB. The surviving vertical edges indicated a feature measuring about 3m by 2.25m, 0.10m in depth. Three post holes truncated the feature, although it is uncertain if they were associated. Two sherds of Saxon pottery were recovered.
These two buildings presumably may form part of the same settlement, though little more is known of the character and extent of this at present. Other similar interventions in the area have also produced residual Saxon material.
