| Description | Scattered deposits of miscellaneous artefacts found during fieldwalking/ excavation on land attached to Poplar Farm; exact area of archaeological work unclear from available evidence. Suggestive of manuring, either from Poplar Farm or from the now quarried out settlement of Delf Hill (see OS 1st edn.) Artefacts range from flints, including a Bronze Age thumb scraper, flint and chert flakes, a flint `spearhead', various pieces of waste flint, and shale disks, to three sherds of possible Roman pottery, but the bulk of the material appears to have been late Medieval to Post Medieval in date. Chiefly interesting for possible indications of pottery manufacture in the area, including kiln waste and glaze covered pebbles. Presence of several small streams and spring may have attracted prehistoric settlement. |