Reports
Our reports library includes fieldwork, geophysical, geoarchaeological, marine and post-excavation reports from our archaeological and heritage projects across the UK.
There are 263 Reports listed.
The Cart House, Newholme Hospital, Bakewell - Historic Building Record
Published: 2022-07-01
Subjects: Post Medieval
The Cart House forms an early part of the former Bakewell Union Workhouse, latterly Newholme Hospital, constructed as an ancillary structure, likely as a cart house, which was latterly used as a store. The building’s construction is simple, reflecting its ancillary nature. Nevertheless, it contributes to an understanding of the historic function and layout of the former workhouse. The building is [...]
Westside Close, Old Sarum, Salisbury - Post-excavation Assessment
Published: 2022-07-01
Subjects: Bronze Age Settlement, Iron Age Settlement, Neolithic Settlement
The excavation revealed two pits of potentially contemporary date in close proximity to this feature, although they contained smaller quantities of finds. A tiny, residual sherd of Beaker pottery was also retrieved from one of two postholes during the evaluation. These features were resolved, during the excavation, to have formed part of a ring, approximately 4.5 m in diameter, of seven [...]
Botley Bypass, Botley, Hampshire - Post-excavation Assessment
Published: 2022-07-01
Subjects: Bronze Age Ceremony, Iron Age Agriculture, Iron Age Enclosure, Post-Medieval Agriculture, Romano-British Agriculture, Romano-British Enclosure, Undated Archaeological Features
Archaeological features were recorded in all three areas. In Area A, a series of 1st century AD features were revealed, including two ditched enclosures, a hollow and three pits. A post-medieval ditch crossed this area and a further five pits and seven postholes were of uncertain date. In Area B, two waterholes were dated to the 1st century AD; there was also a post-medieval ditch. Two [...]
Layer de la Haye WTW Enhancement, Layer de la Haye, Essex - Post-excavation Assessment
Published: 2022-07-01
Subjects: Undated Archaeological Features
This excavation only revealed six small pits whereby four of them were sampled for environmental assessment. The features sampled were identified as the truncated remains of charcoal production pits variously (and poorly) dated between the Iron Age, Romano-British and medieval periods.
Harnham Park, Netherhampton Road, Salisbury, Wiltshire - Post-excavation Assessment and Updated Project Design
Published: 2022-06-01
Subjects: Neolithic
Wessex Archaeology was commissioned to undertake archaeological mitigation works comprising an archaeological strip, map and record excavation covering 0.18 hectare centred on NGR 412548 129099, at Harnham Park, Netherhampton Road, Salisbury, Wiltshire, SP2 8PF. The archaeological investigation at Harnham Park identified features and deposits including buried soils, pits, a ditch, postholes, a [...]
Land between East Cowes Road and Fairlee Road, Newport, Isle of Wight - Archaeological Evaluation
Published: 2022-06-01
Subjects: Post-medieval Artefacts
A total of 13 trenches measuring 30 m in length, 1.90 m wide and approximately 0.35 m deep were excavated, revealing natural clays and gravels beneath a modern topsoil. A single archaeological feature was recorded during the evaluation, while the topsoil finds were limited to modern pottery, fragments of ceramic land drains and lumps of chalk. The only recorded feature was a post-medieval [...]
Newlyn Coastal Research Project - Site Walkover and Geoarchaeological Borehole Survey
Published: 2022-06-01
Subjects: Geoarchaeology, No Archaeology
There were no visible archaeological, architectural or historic remains and no deposits of geoarchaeological potential recorded within the access route. To the north east and south west of the access route large, dressed granite kerb stones measuring up to 2.0m in length and up to 1.0m in width formed the edge of the old Newlyn to Penzance road that had previously run along the top [...]
Dredged Up - Issue 31
Published: 2022-06-01
Subjects: Marine Archaeology
Archaeology Finds Reporting Service Magazine Issue 31 Autumn 2022
Land at Bordon Garrison, Bordon, Hampshire - Archaeological Evaluation
Published: 2022-05-01
Subjects: 20th Century, Post Medieval
Wessex Archaeology was commissioned to undertake an archaeological evaluation of a 1.91 ha parcel of land located on land at the former Bordon Garrison, Bordon, Hampshire, GU35 9HQ. The Site is part of a wider development site. A recent archaeological appraisal of the site had identified two largely linear banks relating to known 19th and 20th century boundaries, although the dating of these [...]
St John's Churchyard, John Street, Bristol - Archaeological Watching Brief
Published: 2022-05-01
Subjects: Post Medieval
Wessex Archaeology was commissioned to undertake an archaeological watching brief during intrusive groundworks associated with public realm improvements at St John’s Churchyard, Bristol. The watching brief, undertaken as a condition of faculty approval for the improvement works, covered a 0.06-hectare area, centred on NGR 358847 173178. The archaeological works comprised monitoring the [...]
Northfleet Embankment West - Further Laser Scan and Photogrammetry Survey
Published: 2022-05-01
Subjects: Modern Structure, Photogrammetry Survey
A brick kiln structure and associated features (the ‘northern kiln complex’) was exposed centred on NGR 562040 174790 during the ongoing watching brief phase in Area E. Deemed too unstable for preservation, Wessex Archaeology carried out a laser scan and photogrammetry survey (Phase 1) of the area in October 2021 prior to demolition, which is described in a separate technical report (Wessex [...]
Former Fever Ward of Hexham Workhouse, Dene Avenue, Hexham, Northumberland - Historic Building Record and Archaeological Watching Brief Report
Published: 2022-05-01
Subjects: Modern Structure
The Fever Ward building presents a significantly altered mid-19th-century structure, originally appearing to have been largely open plan. The original layout of the building would have comprised open wards to each floor, with beds arranged against the walls and a walkway to their centre. Accounts of workhouse conditions attest to often multiple people forced to share single beds, and of the [...]
Market Strand, Falmouth, Cornwall - Archaeological Watching Brief
Published: 2022-05-01
Subjects: No Archaeology
The watching brief monitored the excavation of five slip trenches and one hand dug test pit. The geotechnical works were undertaken in order to identify any existing services that may be affected by the re-routing of a sewer main and to establish the depth and condition of the foundations for the sea wall and adjacent building. No archaeological features or deposits were present within the [...]
Westwood Cross: Phase 5B, Thanet, Kent - Archaeological Evaluation Report
Published: 2022-05-01
Subjects: Undated Archaeological Features
A total of 26 archaeological features were recorded in 11 of the 30 excavated trenches, comprising ditches, pits, postholes and a large quarry pit. None of the features could be solidly phased. A large palaeochannel was recorded running through the centre of the area, corresponding with a cropmark seen on aerial photography, and a former chalk quarry pit was identified in the southern corner.
Blenheim Palace: Queen Pool Restoration Project - Survey Data Analysis (Landform Area)
Published: 2022-04-01
Subjects: Undated
Wessex Archaeology was commissioned to undertake analysis and interpretation of airborne LiDAR, Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) photogrammetric data, and terrestrial laser scan data at Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire (NGR: SP 43536 17842). The analysis was required to provide a record of extant archaeological features of an approximately 16.3 ha area of land, prior to deposition of silt dredged from [...]