Land adjacent to the Jolly Miller, Quemerford, Calne, Wiltshire - Archaeological Evaluation Report

Wessex Archaeology

Three archaeological features, a ditch or trench and two postholes, were encountered within the trench. On the basis of the presence of modern pottery, along with postmedieval pottery, clay pipe fragments and brick and tile fragments, all three were assumed to be of 19th or 20th century date. All were cut into the surface of the natural substrata and sealed below the probable buried topsoil, which was in turn sealed by the modern overburden. The ditch or trench was aligned approximately north-west to south-east, parallel to the property boundary some 25m to the north-east, suggesting that the feature pre-dated the laying out of the present property. The two postholes lay within 2.00m of one another in the southern end of the trench, but did not appear to represent any discernible structure.