| Title: |
Alluvial Archaeology in the Herefordshire Valleys: An Assessment of Survey Techniques and Archaeological Potential (Internal Report No 456) |
| Biblio Note |
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| Publication Type: |
Report
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| Abstract: |
<summary>The Herefordshire Valleys Survey was set up in April 1989 with funding from English Heritage as a one-year pilot study. The brief of the pilot study was: to evaluate the archaeological potential of the Herefordshire river valleys, with particular emphasis on the alluvium-covered areas which occupy much of the valley bottoms; to develop techniques for locating and assessing archaeological sites and deposits covered by alluvium, and to prepare a strategy for the management of these landscapes and the sites they contain. A computerised database of over 1,150 sites was collected for the 925 square kilometre study area, largely from the County Sites and Monuments Record; these sites were plotted on to a digitised county base map, using a number of standard symbols. Fieldwork at the Roman site at Wellington Quarry revealed a Roman stone building, covered by a substantial layer of alluvium and overlying further alluvial layers, and an enclosure, probably double-ditched, of a type which is well known in the region from crop marks. Subsequent fieldwork was undertaken in both the Lugg and Frome river valleys. Cross-valley auger transects helped to define a topographical background into which sites identified from crop marks, finds scatters and geophysical survey, as well as from augering, could be placed. Sites included a ditched enclosure at Castle Frome (Roman, but probably with an origin in the Iron Age), and enclosures at Kingsland, as well as deposits associated with the Roman settlement at Stretton Grandison. *{italon}Sec(abr/adp){italoff} {italon}SMR Primary Record Numbers:{italoff} HWCM various |
| Author: |
James Dinn
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| Publisher: |
Hereford and Worcester County Council Archaeological Service
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| Year of Publication: |
1996
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| Locations: |
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Stretton Grandison |
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Lugg |
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Frome |
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Castle Frome |
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Kingsland |
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Wellington Quarry |
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| Subjects / Periods: |
| Iron Age (Auto Detected Temporal) |
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ROMAN
(Historic England Periods)
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| Note: |
Date Of Issue From:
1996
Date Of Coverage From:
01
Date Of Coverage To:
01
Editorial Expansion:
Site name: THE HEREFORDSHIRE VALLEYS SURVEY
Study area: 92500ha
Investigation type: Post-determination/Research
District: Hereford, Leominster, Malvern Hills, South Herefordshire
Monument:
Ngr: SO75503950
Parish:
Postcode:
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| Source: |
BIAB
(Archaeological Investigations Project (AIP))
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| Created Date: |
19 Jan 2009 |
