Reports
Our reports library includes fieldwork, geophysical, geoarchaeological, marine and post-excavation reports from our archaeological and heritage projects across the UK.
There are 220 Reports listed.
Land off Grove Road / Moor Lane, Kirk Sandall Phase 2 - Post-excavation Assessment
Published: 2020-01-01
Subjects: Medieval Artefacts, Modern Foundations, Modern Structure, Post-Medieval Agriculture, Post-Medieval Structure
The excavation was the final stage in a programme of archaeological works which included trial trench evaluation and an earlier phase of mitigation, which found post-medieval structural remains and field systems. This final stage of archaeological mitigation recorded a number of post-medieval ditches, pits and structural remains as well as some possibly late medieval or earlier post-medieval [...]
Aspire School, Staplehurst Road, Sittingbourne, Kent - Archaeological Investigations Report
Published: 2020-01-01
Subjects: Bronze Age Ceremony, Bronze Age Funerary Site, Neolithic Ceremony
The archaeological watching brief consisted of monitoring a topsoil reduction of 0.20-0.25m around the Bronze Age barrows which were intended to be preserved in-situ. The archaeological investigations revealed a concentration of archaeological features in the central section of the site, with all artefactual evidence pointing to a prehistoric date. The main area of activity, dated to the [...]
Station Road, Normanton, West Yorkshire - Post-excavation Assessment
Published: 2019-12-01
Subjects: Modern Industry, Modern Structure, Modern Transport, Post-Medieval Industry, Post-Medieval Structure, Post-medieval Transport, Undated Archaeological Features
The archaeological elements excavated were predominantly structural remains of railway buildings and turntables that can be identified on the 1846 Ordnance Survey map of Normanton, but also included evidence of the later 19th-century development of the site into an area of sidings.
Land at Hunters Moon, Easton Lane, Chippenham, Wiltshire - Post-excavation Assessment
Published: 2019-12-01
Subjects: Bronze Age Funerary Site, Post-Medieval Agriculture, Prehistoric Enclosure, Prehistoric Settlement, Undated Archaeological Features
This report records the results of an archaeological excavation. Archaeologically significant features were predominantly confined to two of the excavated areas: Area 1a and Area 2. Area 1a contained a ring ditch, which probably represented the remains of an earlier Bronze Age round barrow. A small quantity of re-deposited cremated human bone recovered from the ditch may have derived from a [...]
Annual Report to BMAPA 2018-2019
Published: 2019-11-01
Subjects: Marine Archaeology
British Marine Aggregate Producers Association, Historic England and The Crown Estate. Marine Aggregate Industry Protocol for the Reporting of Finds of Archaeological Interest.
Sylvester Gardens, Sheffield, South Yorkshire - Post-excavation Assessment
Published: 2019-11-01
Subjects: Furnace, Modern Industry, Modern Settlement, Modern Structure, Undated structure
The archaeological remains were predominantly structural and related to industrial development of the site from the early to mid-19th-century through to the demolition of standing remains in 2018. In additional to industrial buildings, a series of stone foundations excavated in the north of Area 2a correlated to early or mid-19th-century worker’s housing seen on historic mapping. Two early [...]
Holy Trinity Church, Edale, Derbyshire - Historic Building Record
Published: 2019-10-01
Subjects: Historic Building, Modern Religious Building
The historic building recording has established that the Holy Trinity Church was built in 1885 as designed by architect William Dawes, Manchester. The primary construction included the South Porch. The tower and spire were completed four years later but formed part of the original design. This church was the third to be built in Edale. The first two stood across the road within the old graveyard. [...]
Kings Gate Primary School, Amesbury, Wiltshire - Post-excavation Assessment
Published: 2019-10-01
Subjects: Bronze Age Ceremony, Bronze Age Settlement, Iron Age Ceremony, Iron Age Settlement, Romano-British Funerary Site, Undated Archaeological Features
The site and wider Kings Gate and Archer’s Gate development areas have been the subject of an extensive series of archaeological investigations which revealed features of Mesolithic to Second World War date: prehistoric pit deposits, Early Bronze Age and Iron Age settlements and Romano-British funerary activity have all been identified. The features exposed during this excavation were [...]
Glossop Road, Gamesley, Derbyshire - Archaeological Excavation Report
Published: 2019-10-01
Subjects: Neolithic, Post-Medieval Agriculture, Undated Archaeological Features
The excavation was carried out to investigate the proposed course of a Roman road, believed to pass through the area on a north-west to south-east alignment. During the strip, map and record exercise no evidence of a Roman road was observed. A modern recut within the field boundary was also recorded. A soil sample taken from the earlier ditch was found to coal/clinker, slag and hammerscale, [...]
Galloper Wind Farm Onshore Works, Sizewell Gap, Leiston, Suffolk - Post Excavation Report
Published: 2019-09-01
Subjects: Iron Age Settlement, Romano-British Agriculture, Romano-British Enclosure, Romano-British Funerary Site, Undated Archaeological Features
The earliest evidence of activity at the Site is of Bronze Age date. The Early Iron Age saw low level activity confined to the north eastern region of the Site, suggesting a pattern of rural open settlement. There is little evidence of enclosure or landscape division at the time. Most evidence of settlement at the Site is of Romano-British date with several phases of enclosures and land [...]
Elms Field, Wokingham - Archaeological Excavation and Watching Brief Report
Published: 2019-08-01
Subjects: Iron Age Agriculture, Iron Age Settlement, Medieval Agriculture, Modern Settlement, Post-Medieval Agriculture
The strip, map, record was targeted on a number of features identified within a single trench during the evaluation, including an Iron Age pit, and a number of post-medieval features including two intercutting pits, a ditch and sub-circular feature interpreted as a cess pit or well or similar. The strip, map, record found further Iron Age features including a waterhole, a four post structure, a [...]
Land South of Tull Way, Thatcham, West Berkshire - Post-excavation Assessment
Published: 2019-08-01
Subjects: Romano-British Agriculture, Romano-British Settlement
The south-western and northern excavation areas both contained pits and ditches which predominantly dated to the early Romano-British period. The ditches were all likely to be field boundaries, with the possibility that some of them were flanking ditches for trackways. The pits were predominantly small refuse pits. Artefacts have been found dating from the Mesolithic to the post-medieval [...]
Land adjacent to 10 Walworth Road, Picket Piece, Andover, Hampshire - Post-excavation Assessment
Published: 2019-08-01
Subjects: Medieval Artefacts, Modern Trackway
The strip, map and sample excavation focused on two particular areas, based on a previous evaluation. One area contained several discrete prehistoric features arranged along an east-west axis with artefactual evidence of struck flint from the Neolithic/Bronze Age periods. A single sherd of Romano-British pottery was also recovered. Two intercutting pits to the east of, and aligned with, the [...]
Land west of Ham Lane, Lenham, Kent - Post-excavation Assessment
Published: 2019-08-01
Subjects: Bronze Age Ceremony, Post-Medieval Agriculture, Prehistoric Agriculture, Undated Archaeological Features
The archaeological investigation revealed a low level of activity provisionally dated to the prehistoric and post-medieval periods. A total of 11 distinct archaeological features were recorded, comprising a field boundary ditch, a drainage ditch and a ditch terminus, three ditch segments and five pits including a placed pottery vessel. A number of tree throws dispersed across the site were [...]
Land off Hillside Road, Castle Gresely, Swadlincote, Derbyshire - Archaeological Evaluation Report
Published: 2019-07-01
Subjects: Enclosure, Undated Archaeological Features
The evaluation area spanned three fields. The north-western field contained several ditches, with two large ditches appearing across three trial trenches that were indicative of a bivallate hilltop enclosure. Adjacent shallower ditches potentially formed internal features. The archaeological remains in the eastern field comprised ditches and a pit, and were indicative of a small enclosure. The [...]