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Summary: Marked clay pipe fragments - 5 bowls, 2 stems, 2 stem & bowl fragments: \n 4 x IEF/FRY.H/VNT (c1650-1670) \n 2 x RICH/GREEN/LAND (1688-1736) \n 1 x ?/CHARD/? LINE? \n 1 x Thomas Hunt (c1640-1696) \n 1 unreadable. From fieldwork undertaken by the WANHS Archaeology Field Group at Godwin's Meadow, Rodbourne, Malmesbury, Wiltshire, 2006 and 2009. A site of multiple occupation, stretching from the 10th to the 18th century, but the most intensive periods of activity extended from the latter years of the Saxon-Norman period and continued through to the end of the High Medieval period (10th-14th centuries). A complex area of earthworks which indicated that structures, enclosures, banks and ditches once existed in this area.