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Derbyshire Archaeological Journal
Environmental Evidence. In: Highfields Farm: A Romano-British settlement on the edge of Derby
2021 •
Inés L . López-Dóriga
Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine
Excavation of an early Roman settlement at Lay Wood, Devizes, Wiltshire, 2016
2020 •
Martyn Allen
Excavation of an area of about 2ha in advance of housing development revealed a zone of intensive occupation dating from about the middle of the 1st century AD to the end of the 2nd century AD, with prehistoric activity indicated by redeposited flintwork. The Roman features were primarily field boundaries and associated trackways and enclosures, and included a probable circular building and cremation burials. The sequence of development was complex and many features had been repeatedly redug. The early Roman occupation lay about 400m from a probable Roman villa building which was partly examined during an evaluation of the wider site and subsequently preserved in situ.
Chadwick, A.M. 2006. Bronze Age burials and settlement and an Anglo-Saxon settlement at Claypit Lane, Westhampnett, West Sussex.
Adrian Chadwick
A lovely Bronze Age burial and settlement site in West Sussex, with interesting evidence for Neolithic and Anglo-Saxon inhabitation too. I directed the evaluation and one phase of excavation for Wessex Archaeology, and subsequently wrote it up. It was particularly interesting how the stake-built palisade did not surround the settlement, but seemed to partly screen it from the barrows, though the entrance through this fence faced directly towards them. There was originally more in-depth discussion of the depositional practices and spatial patterning by myself and Lorraine Mepham, but unfortunately this was edited out of the final publication....
‘Life before the Anglo-Saxon minster’: Interim Report on University of Reading Excavations at Lyminge, 2010
Gabor Thomas
Excavation of a Romano-British enclosure complex at Burton Wold Farm, Burton Latimer, Northamptonshire
2020 •
Barbara Silva
Investigation of cropmarks known from aerial photographs revealed a rectangular complex of smaller enclosures, pits and other features, dating from the 1st-4th centuries AD.� This report gives an integrated account of the archaeological work carried out during groundworks for the construction of a wind farm on land in Burton Wold Farm in the eastern part of Burton Latimer parish.� It combines evidence from desktop assessment, geophysical survey, trial trench evaluation, watching brief and full excavation - focusing in particular upon the cropmark complex in the northern part of the Development Area, where Turbine 7 was to be located.� Here geophysical survey gave an overall view of the form of the complex as a whole, while excavation allowed a small area within the larger complex to be examined in detail.� Sections were excavated through enclosure ditches, gullies and a large pit.� The enclosures are thought to have functioned as pens for livestock.� Although no evidence of houses o...
Archaeological Test Pit Excavations in Meldreth, Cambridgeshire, 2013
Carenza Lewis, Alex Pryor
This report presents the results of a programme of rchaeological excavation of 32 1m2 ‘test pits’ in the Cambridgeshire village of Meldreth carried out in summer 2013. The programme was funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) through its ‘All Our Stories’ programme and supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Connected Communities theme which funded the Cambridge Community Heritage programme at the University of Cambridge in 20012-13. Over three weekends, more than 300 residents of the village of Meldreth and the local area took part in the excavations in 32 different locations throughout the present village. The results provided new evidence for the development of the area now occupied by the village, which mostly lies alongside a small stream, from the prehistoric period onwards. Parts of the area appears to have quite intensively used by humans in the prehistoric period, with unusually large volumes of Bronze Age pottery recovered from at least four different sites likely to be indicative of settlement and/or burial. Pottery of Roman date favours the south of the present village, and suggests settlement took the form of a dispersed scatter of small settlements such as farmsteads surrounded by arable fields to the north. No evidence was found for any activity dating to the period between the 5th –9th centuries AD, but Saxo-Norman pottery was found widely, with particular concentrations on the manorial site of Topcliffe as well in the south of the village around Flambards moated site. The absence of any Thetford ware from Meldreth suggests that this activity is likely to be post-Conquest in date and that the medieval settlement originates in this period rather than earlier. The high medieval period sees the settlement extend westwards, probably laid out in the 12th or 13th century over former arable, with apparently new settlement sites founded at Chiswick and North End. This growth ceases in the late medieval period, although Meldreth does not appear to be as badly affected in this period of widespread demographic and settlement contraction as many settlements in the eastern region. In the post-medieval period, however, the test pit data indicates that Meldreth stagnated, with the southern end of the settlement particularly badly affected.
Souterrain Report SOU22-803
Romano-British Rural Occupation in Earls Barton Village, Northamptonshire: Archaeological Investigation 2022
2022 •
Martin D. Wilson
A relatively small archaeological investigation in the centre of Earls Barton village (Northamptonshire, England) in 2022 revealed tangible evidence of rural occupation during the mid/late 2nd century AD. Excavations at two new house plots uncovered a range of features that most likely pertained to a farmstead. A prime determinant for settlement at this location was undoubtedly a major spring, which remained the village’s main source of fresh water until the late 19th century. The site may well have been associated with an extensive landscape of Romano-British rural enclosures found recently on the northern periphery of the village. However, the Roman-British landscape around the village centre appears to be very fragmentary, on account of extensive and incremental stone quarrying which took place in the 18th and early 19th centuries. The few quarry locations that are documented are not precise, while the reinstatement of farmland has left little, or no, superficial trace of the works. The investigation not only resulted in a greater understanding of the nature of Romano-British rural settlement evidence at Earls Barton, but also an improved understanding of the extents to which the village landscape was fashioned and re-fashioned from the late medieval period onwards.
Souterrain Report SOU21-772
Archaeological Investigation on Land Adjacent to 34 Church Road, Piddington, Northamptonshire
2022 •
Martin D. Wilson, Mercedes Planas
Research of the Romano-British landscape at Piddington (Northamptonshire, England) has, for many decades, focussed on the excavation of a Roman villa located over half a kilometre to the southwest of the village. However, in 2021 the opportunity arose to examine a reasonably large development plot in the centre of the historic village. An open-area excavation revealed what appears to be the first indication of a pattern of Romano-British agrarian land-use in the villa’s north-eastern hinterland during the 2nd century AD and, certainly, the first appreciation of the rural landscape of the period beneath the village itself. The results of the excavation also present a rare and intriguing window into the 12th to 13th century village; very few archaeological discoveries have been made in the village. A variety of ‘negative’ features – including a substantial boundary ditch, pits and a possible structure - had been in-filled with a rich variety of domestic and culinary waste. The combined bio-factual and artefactual data provides an evocative insight to day-to-day medieval village life, economy and trade links.
David Millum
Parts 1-3:The Fieldwork and Results, Written and Drawn Records of the post-excavation report of the archaeological investigations undertaken by the Culver Archaeological Project (CAP) in Five Acres on Bridge Farm, Wellingham, Ringmer, East Sussex (TQ4297 1456) in 2014. The site was in a meadow to the west of the Romano-British settlement discovered adjacent to the River Ouse in 2011 (Millum, 2013). This excavation followed on from four trenches excavated in 2013 (Millum & Wallace, 2017). The 770sq.m open area excavation trench was located over a rectangular group of circular anomalies, adjacent linear and other features, observed in the geophysical survey in 2011. The excavation revealed 13 postholes, of 1m+ diameter, forming a rectangular grouping 16m by 6.4m, each containing the base of a waterlogged post averaging 0.45m in diameter/width at 0.8m -1m deep. of a building, probably aisled, dated by pottery to the late 3rd century AD. Waterlogged timbers were collected from two of the post holes including 2 unique worked timbers with ogee-carved ends (see Specialsit Report in Part 4), used as post-pads, which have been interpreted as the truncated ends of rafters from an earlier Roman period building.
Prehistoric, Romano-British and medieval occupation in the Frome Valley, Gloucestershire
2013 •
Alan Hardy
s .................................................................................................................... vi Foxes Field, Ebley Road, Stonehouse Introduction ............................................................................................................... 1 Excavation Results ...................................................................................................... 3 The Finds .................................................................................................................. 13 The Biological Evidence ............................................................................................ 30 Discussion ................................................................................................................ 47 Acknowledgements ................................................................................................... 50 Bibliography ...................................................................................
