| Title: |
An Archaeological Watching Brief at Vaughan College, Leicester. |
| Number of Pages: |
36 |
| Biblio Note |
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| Publication Type: |
Report
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| Abstract: |
An archaeological watching brief was carried out during the construction of a lift and associated structure to allow disabled access to the college. The college was a Grade II Listed Building which lay on the site of the Jewry Wall Roman Bathouse, a Scheduled Ancient Monument. The work was a condition of the Scheduled Ancient Monument Consent. Evidence was uncovered of a sequence of activity on site, which had been subject to truncation, ranging from the mid first century AD through to medieval. The first and early second century activity consisted of a number of pits, some containing quantities of slag and charcoal suggestive of metal working on site, and the first phase of road to the north of the Baths. The limited evidence suggested that the road dated from the end of the first century, prior to the construction of the Baths, around 130AD. The road was sealed by apparently waterlain deposits indicative of a period of disuse, although no dating evidence was recovered for this phase. No evidence was found for associated structures but this was probably a result of truncation on site. The line of the northern wall of the Baths was preserved as a robber trench, backfilled with building materials presumably derived from the Baths. This included opus signinum, tile, which may derive from pilar, and tesserae. The wall was robbed out prior to the digging of refuse pits on and adjacent to its line, in the 13th century. Too small an area was exposed to judge the distribution of meideval pits, however, the presence of pits on the line of the wall and others respecting it, suggested that it had stood and functioned as a boundary into the medieval period, prior ot its being robbed out. [Au(adp)] |
| Author: |
A K Gnanaratnam
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| Publisher: |
University of Leicester Archaeological Services (ULAS)
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| Year of Publication: |
1998
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| Subjects / Periods: |
| Early Second Century (Auto Detected Temporal) |
| Mid First Century Ad (Auto Detected Temporal) |
| 13th Century (Auto Detected Temporal) |
| First Century (Auto Detected Temporal) |
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MEDIEVAL
(Historic England Periods)
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| Note: |
Date Of Issue From:
1998
Date Of Coverage From:
01
Date Of Coverage To:
01
Editorial Expansion:
Site name: VAUGHAN COLLEGE, LEICESTER
Study area:
Investigation type: Post-determination/Research
District: Leicester UA
Monument: WALL. Roman (AD43-410), ROAD. Roman (AD43-410), PIT. Undated, PIT. Roman (AD43-410), [finds]. Roman (AD43-410)
Ngr: SK58170451
Parish:
Postcode: LE1 4LB
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| Source: |
BIAB
(Archaeological Investigations Project (AIP))
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| Created Date: |
19 Jan 2009 |
