Most notable of the fragments were those subsequently refitted to a sword in the Museum of Somerset, which had been found in the 19th century 25 miles north of Sigwells. Cereal grains found in the scoop have been dated to the 12th century BC—the Middle Bronze Age—the earliest date for that tradition, Though Bronze objects have been found that are around a millennium older, the building is the earliest metalworking site in Britain. Other finds from the site are in the Eton College museum. By the Middle Iron Age an extensive patchwork of small, ditch-bounded paddocks and larger fields on the east of the Sigwells plateau were served by a substantial double-ditched track and branches from it. They were separated by two possible roundhouses in an open area from a sequence of enclosure, re-cuts and extensions and several hundred pits to the north west. It is one of three large pit groups on high ground overlooking Cadbury Castle. Within the enclosure whole and partial animal and human burials and Iron Age metalwork deposits were found immediately to the east of a rectangular structure that was interpreted as a shrine comparable with successive structures on the hill fort. recent carbon dating (unpublished) suggests that the activity dates from the 2nd century BC to the first years of the 1st century AD. The dating is of special importance to later Iron Age ceramic studies because it shows that Dorset Black-burnished ware (BB1) was circulating well beyond its area of production by around 100BC. Some researchers had assumed that it did not reach Somerset until after the Roman conquest of Britain, leading to problems in dating a violent episode on Cadbury Castle. The pits and enclosures had been abandoned before the conquest, although an enclosure 200m to the south may have replaced them during the Late Iron Age. This enclosure may also have been abandoned before or during the conquest but it was in use again by the 2nd century AD. During the later second or third century AD isolated stone-walled rectangular building were integrated within the refurbished Iron Age field system. The settlement pattern contrasts with a linear “street” arrangement of similarly dated farms at Catsgore, Somerset.