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The upgrading of the A120 between Stansted Airport and Braintree
allowed the unique opportunity to examine a slice of landscape
crossing the clay plateau of Essex; a geology which has received
little attention in the past. A diverse pattern of human history
was revealed including earlier prehistoric flint knapping, later
prehistoric ritual activity, a Roman farmstead with accompanying
cemetery, a middle Saxon hall, medieval settlement, pottery
production and a windmill. This report is the product of a joint
venture between Oxford Archaeology and Wessex Archaeology and has
been designed to provide the reader with an accessible
interpretation of the findings with supporting factual data.
Excavations at nine sites along the route of the Great Barford
Bypass provided a rare opportunity to investigate an extensive area
of the South Midlands claylands, a landscape that has hitherto seen
little archaeological work. The excavations produced evidence for
the long-term development of the social landscape, agrarian economy
and environment of the area from prehistory to the Middle Ages.
Sporadic occupation took place during the Neolithic and Bronze Age,
with systematic colonisation first occurring in the later Iron Age.
One of the four excavated Iron Age settlements showed striking
ritual activity, including what is believed to be the first
conclusive evidence for the long-term curation of human bone within
Iron Age Britain. In the Roman period, two of the settlements
continued to be occupied and two new sites were founded. Associated
features included pottery kilns and cremation and inhumation
cemeteries. Early Saxon activity was also present at one of the
Roman sites. A new settlement pattern appeared in the late
Saxon/early medieval period, with the establishment of three
farmsteads or hamlets, all of which were abandoned by the 13th
century. The implications of the evidence for our understanding of
the archaeology of the wider region are fully discussed.
Archaeological investigations at Harding's Field, Chalgrove,
revealed the remains of one of the most complete examples of a
moated medieval manor yet excavated in England. Evidence of a
pre-moat occupation dating from the first half of the 13th century,
which may not have been seigneurial, was succeeded in the mid 13th
century by the construction of the moated manor house. The
documentary evidence indicates that this house belonged to the
Barentins, a prominent Oxfordshire family. The manor underwent
considerable alterations and improvements during the following 200
years, particularly during the early part of the 14th century and,
to a lesser extent, in the late 14th and early 15th century. It
passed out of the hands of the Barentin family shortly before it
was demolished in the late 15th century.
Details results of excavations along the A477 from St Clears to Red
Roses during the Road Improvement Scheme, 2012. Finds include a
Mesolithic site in the lower Taf valley; early Neolithic pits and a
post-built structure at Cildywyll; the remains of an Early Bronze
Age barrow, 38 burials (some urned), a pyre site, and a Middle
Bronze Age drying oven near St Clears; and A Bronze Age burnt mound
near Red Roses.
Excavations at 7-8 Broad Street, revealed part of a possible 16th-
to 17th-century tavern or inn, situated behind the street frontage.
Discoveries included a stone built cess pit and a cellar, built in
the 16th century and demolished in the 17th century. A large
collection of pottery associated with the serving and consumption
of drink, fine Venetian-style glassware and a few early clay pipes
were recovered from these features. Limited evidence of medieval
occupation, in the form of rubbish pits, was also found, but much
of the site had been disturbed by the construction of the Corn
Exchange in the 19th century. Excavations in 2002 at 90-93 revealed
a ditch and evidence for cultivation possibly within the grounds of
the Saxon Minster; a small assemblage of early to mid Saxon pottery
was recovered from later deposits. Medieval gravel pits, cess pits
and a bell mould pit were founded in the back yards of tenements
fronting Broad St and Chain St, immediately to the north of St
Mary's Churchyard. It is likely that the bell mould pit was for the
casting of a 13th-century bell for St Mary's. The pits contained
exceptional assemblages of bird, fish and animal bone, suggestive
of primary butchery and skinning in the vicinity, as well as the
presence of a high status household. There were also notable
assemblages of 11th- to 13th-century pottery and 16th- to
17th-century glass.
Another collection of free poems and stories brought to you by The
Indie Collaboration. This time we take you to a world of dreams. To
far-away lands of magic and wonder, where both ducks and children
have adventures and learn about the world and where heroes help
their friends and elephants get lost. So pack your lunch box, grab
your coat and shoes and join us in a land of make believe. I can't
wait. Can you?
Another collection of original tales brought to you by The Indie
Collaboration. This time we present a chocolate box selection of
love stories. Some are romantic, some funny, some sad and some
mysterious. Whatever the style, there will be a story in here that
will melt even the most hardened of hearts.
A selection of chilling stories from some of the best Indie authors
on the market. We dare you to venture into these pages of spine
chilling tales and stories of ghosts and goblins. Freely donated by
the authors themselves, these dark passages are a great example of
their various, unique styles and imaginations. This is the first of
a series of topical collections brought to you by The Indie
Collaboration.
From February 2003 to March 2005, Oxford Archaeology (OA) carried
out a programme of archaeological work in King's Lynn comprising
evaluation, strip and map, excavation and watching brief integrated
with the redevelopment of the Vancouver Centre and the construction
of the Clough Lane multi-storey car park. The work was carried out
on behalf of Alfred McAlpine Capital Projects. Despite extensive
modern construction, archaeological features, structures and
deposits of medieval date (12th-15th centuries) were recorded along
the existing frontages of Broad Street and New Conduit Street.
Archaeological deposits, building foundations and yard surfaces of
late medieval/post-medieval date (15th and 16th-18th centuries)
were recorded in localised areas in the car parks to the rear of
Sainsburys, the rear of Broad Street and to the south west of New
Conduit Street. Piezometers were installed in order to carry out a
two-year monitoring programme on the physical and chemical effects
of the development's piled construction on the underlying, and
otherwise unexposed, reclaimed marine and estuarine sediments.
Evaluation of the Clough Lane car park site revealed an intact
marine sediment sequence underlying all of the development area as
well as localised medieval structures and features.
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