Harding, P. A. (2014). Former Royal Mail Sorting Office, Wick Lane, Christchurch, Dorset, Archaeological Evaluation Trial Trenches. Wessex Archaeology. https://doi.org/10.5284/1038859. Cite this using datacite

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Title:		 Former Royal Mail Sorting Office, Wick Lane, Christchurch, Dorset, Archaeological Evaluation Trial Trenches
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Series:		 Wessex Archaeology unpublished report series
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Abstract:		 Wessex Archaeology was commissioned by Libra Homes to undertake Phases II and III of a phased programme of archaeological evaluation, on the site of the former Post Office Sorting Office, Wick Lane, Christchurch. The work was considered necessary to evaluate the presence, survival, distribution and archaeological value of deposits and features across the entire Site and to assess the threat that redevelopment for mixed commercial and residential use might have on the archaeological resource. The site lay in the core of the Anglo-Saxon and medieval town of Christchurch. Phase I of the work (AAL 2010b), involved the excavation of two trenches on the anticipated line of a medieval ditch, previously recorded in 1983 (Harding 1984), and which was projected to cross the western end of the Site. Phase II of the work comprised three machine-excavated trenches which were dug across the eastern part of the Site. These trenches demonstrated that the Site had been truncated extensively by the construction of an 18th-19th- century brewery. No archaeological features survived. The Phase III single evaluation trench was intended to re-examine the possibility that one of the two ditches found in the Phase I trenching could be equated with the medieval ditch. This additional trench confirmed that the upper parts of the stratigraphic sequence had been truncated but concluded that the medieval ditch recorded in 1983 was on the same alignment and of the same date as the more easterly of the two Phase I ditches, albeit with slight variations in profile.
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Author:		 P A Harding
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Publisher:		 Wessex Archaeology
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Other Person/Org:		 Historic England (OASIS Reviewer)
Dorset SMR (OASIS Reviewer)
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Year of Publication:		 2014
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Site: Former Royal Mail Sorting Office, Wick lane
County: Dorset
District: Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
Parish: CHRISTCHURCH
Country: England
Grid Reference: 415866, 92662 (Easting, Northing)
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UNCERTAIN (Historic England Periods) ANIMAL REMAINS (Object England)
MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods) SHERD (Object England)
MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods) DITCH (Monument Type England)
TRIAL TRENCH (Event)
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OASIS Id: wessexar1-194248
OBIB: Report Ref: 103010.03
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Created Date:		 01 Feb 2018