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OA South carried out an extensive evaluation at Berryfields in December 2001, but it was not until 2008 that a full excavation (also by OA) took place. There was another phase of fieldwork in 2010.
Slowly a landscape of late prehistoric, Roman and medieval fields has emerged, with trackways and clusters of low-level activity.
Recently we have been working close to Roman Akeman Street which cuts across the south east corner of the site on its journey between Verulamium and Corinium Dobunnorum, and we have recovered two large timber piles from a possible bridge where the road crossed the River Thame.
Just to the south of the road we have come across our most spectacular discoveries, all from what at first appeared a rather unlikely spread of dark clay soil. The spread turned into a pit which turned into a waterlogged pit that contained a range of organic finds, including a basket and 2000-year-old eggs.
