Kings Gate Primary School, Amesbury, Wiltshire - Post-excavation Assessment

Wessex Archaeology

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 relatively small in number and comprised undated linear features and postholes, a single Romano-British grave and a prehistoric pit. The most significant of the features were the isolated grave which contained the skeletal remains of a child, and the Late Bronze Age/Early Iron Age pit which contained numerous finds, including fossil beads, sarsen objects and fragments of burnt wooden 'planks'. Both the pit and the burial appear to belong to previously identified settlement and mortuary zones, respectively.