97 ROMANO-BRITISH ACTIVITY ON SALISBURY PLAIN, NEAR TILSHEAD, WILTSHIRE An excavation on the Salisbury Plain Training Area, just north of Tilshead, revealed mostly Romano-British features comprising pits, ditches, and a grave. Artefacts include a brooch, a coin, ceramic spindle whorls and/or weights, and fragments of quernstones. The site is probably on the periphery of an area of Romano-British rural settlement, the inhabitants of which participated in agricultural and small-scale industry and crafts. The results augment the known evidence for widespread Romano-British activity across and around Salisbury Plain. Romano-British activity on Salisbury Plain, near Tilshead, Wiltshire by Kirsten Egging Dinwiddy with contributions by Lorrain Higbee, Jacqueline I. McKinley, Rachael Seager Smith and Sarah F. Wyles and illustrations by Will Foster and Nancy Dixon Wiltshire Archaeological & Natural History Magazine, vol. 108 (2015), pp. 97–104 Wessex Archaeology, Portway House, Old Sarum Park, Salisbury, Wiltshire, SP4 6EB Introduction An excavation on Salisbury Plain 2km north of Tilshead (Figure 1) was undertaken by Wessex Archaeology in advance of works associated with the Eastern Infrastructure Project, involving improvements to the military training estate. The 0.3 ha site is centred on National Grid Reference 403260, 149850, at an elevation of approximately 145–147m aOD. It occupies a flat area of pasture with intermittent woodland. The natural geology comprises weathered Upper chalk, below 0.20 to 0.68m of topsoil and subsoil. Archaeological background The site lies within the Salisbury Plain Training Area, a region renowned for its abundant and varied archaeological evidence. Remnants of Romano-British settlements dot the landscape, at, for example, Chapperton Down, Orcheston Down, and Maddington Farm, Shrewton (Fulford et al. 2006; Graham and Newman 1993; McKinley and Heaton 1996; RCHM(E) 1979, 24). Vestiges of a substantial late Romano-British settlement and mortuary landscape have been investigated to the southeast of Amesbury (Rawlings and Fitzpatrick 1996; Cooke et al. in prep). Aerial photographs indicate the presence of enclosures, field systems and lynchets in the immediate vicinity of the site. Results Romano-British Boundary ditch Part of a Romano-British boundary was revealed in the northeast corner of the site. Clearly of some significance, it was repeatedly re-established over the period as evidenced by a variety of intercutting