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Desk-Based Assessment at Morville Sand Pit, Morville Heath, Shropshire |
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Worcestershire Archaeology unpublished report series
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Abstract: |
A desk-based assessment was undertaken on behalf of David L Walker Limited (the client) on behalf of their client Lafarge Aggregates Ltd at Morville Sand Pit, Morville Heath, Shropshire (NGR SO 6811 9344). This study was unable to record any known archaeological activity within the site boundaries, but was able to reveal that the surrounding landscape has been subject to human interaction from at least the Late Neolithic, continuing into the Bronze Age with funerary monuments being constructed to the east and south-east following the courses of both the Tiddle and Mor Brooks. This, along with an above average number of worked flints and Neolithic pottery recovered from fields to the immediate east of the area of investigation, hint at a potentially complex prehistoric landscape. Whilst the Romano-British road to the north of the site showed that the area had been used to transport people and goods no evidence could be found to suggest that any settlement existed. The village of Morville to the east is known through documentary evidence to have grown rapidly during the Saxon period and was noted as being the head of a hundred and site of a minster church during this period, however due to the growth of Bridgnorth in the medieval period this area became largely overlooked and declined in importance over time. The site itself originally part of Morville heath was not enclosed until at least 1770 when the land began to be divided as part of the estate of Morville Hall, the area of investigation then changed little until the latter half of the 20th century when it was divided into three land parcels, which themselves were removed shortly after the site was occupied by Lafarge Redland Aggregates Ltd who turned the site into a sand quarry, excavating roughly three quarters of the site during mineral extraction and creating the current topographical layout. |
Author: |
J Webster
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Publisher: |
Worcestershire Archaeology
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Other Person/Org: |
Historic England (OASIS Reviewer)
Shropshire HER (OASIS Reviewer)
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Year of Publication: |
2011
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Morville Quarry, Morville Heath |
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Shropshire |
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Shropshire |
Parish: |
MORVILLE |
Country: |
England |
Grid Reference: 368110, 293440 (Easting, Northing)
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fieldsec1-236051 |
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Report 1821 |
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Created Date: |
01 Feb 2018 |