Roman buildings & pit

1 Mahany Birch Abbey Site A. Boundary ditch, rubbish pits etc. Site no 29.
2 A timber leather-working factory and a large pit containing leather offcuts, to the S of the town ditch. Between the tannery and the ditch were gullies, possibly for storm water. One waterlogged pit produced well-preserved beetle remains.
3 ‘Industrial area’ – evidence for buildings, also the so-called ‘leather pit’, which was a pit with a muddy matrix and many fragments of leather. This was provisionally dated to the Antonine period. Also from this pit – a rich insect fauna. Insects indicate that this was originally a refuse pit and that later sweepings were thrown in from a leather goods factory.