Stonehenge Education Projects - Archaeological Evaluation and Ground Investigation Monitoring

Wessex Archaeology

Wessex Archaeology undertook an archaeological evaluation of a 0.08 ha parcel of land located at the Stonehenge Visitors Centre and associated monitoring of localised ground investigations to inform the proposed development for new educational facilities.

The evaluation area is centred on the proposed development area for a reconstructed Neolithic Communal Structure. The archaeological evaluation, monitoring and sieving encountered no archaeological features,
deposits or artefacts, despite the potential of the site, which lies within the Stonehenge, Avebury and Associated Sites UNESCO World Heritage Site.

The evaluation trench was positioned to target and identify geophysical survey anomalies; however, no evidence of the anomalies was observed within the trench. A deposit of natural flint nodules was observed within the vicinity of a potential pit like anomaly identified within the survey, and a possible trackway was shown to be likely glacial striations within the surface of the natural geology.