There is an interim report from 2001 online here:
http://athens.arch.ox.ac.uk/~glock/fieldwork/ridgeway/mf01.htm
I took a party of Young Archaeologist Club members on a site visit two
years ago and it was very exciting to see the circular feature; 6 foot
high masonry walls with bare bedrock and standing water at the bottom.
It seemed clear to me that the circular sunken feature was built in a
slight depression tht ran down to the river, and that it was a watery
thing of some sort - certainly a pool or some such thing. I also
noticed what seemed to me two similar circular depressions in the
fields a few hundred yards towards the road, a similar distance from
the river, but the excavators did not seem to have paid any atention to
them at that point - maybe one was keeping their hands full enough!
I think the site is open to visitors as part of National Archaeology
Week on 24 July.
Simon Chadwick
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