Sleap, J. and Savage, R. (2015). Proposed Residential Development, Former Minster School Site, Church Street, Southwell, Nottinghamshire: Archaeological Evaluation Report. Brockley: Pre-Construct Archaeology Limited. https://doi.org/10.5284/1046950. Cite this using datacite

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Title:		 Proposed Residential Development, Former Minster School Site, Church Street, Southwell, Nottinghamshire: Archaeological Evaluation Report
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Series:		 Pre-Construct Archaeology (Lincoln) unpublished report series
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Publication Type:		 Report (in Series)
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Abstract:		 An archaeological excavation was carried out in advance of a proposed residential development on the site of the former Minster School in Southwell in Nottinghamshire. Three major phases of occupation were identified by the excavation. During the Roman period, the site was inhabited, and appears to have formed part of the known villa's 'farmyard'. An early phase of post and beam buildings, with a possible boundary wall, was identified, overlain by a second phase in which a sequence of ditches were excavated and the original buildings demolished and replaced; this phase includes a small stone structure near the Potwell Dyke, speculatively interpreted as the villa estate's watermill. A third phase replaced the cluster of farm buildings with two large, rectangular structures and laid out a new plan of drainage and/or enclosure ditches on a different axis. The site was largely unoccupied in the post-Roman period, probably due to a rise in water levels making it unsuitable for habitation or cultivation. The known Christian cemetery proved to extend into the western side of the site: radiocarbon dating indicated that the cemetery was in use for a relatively short time, probably between the late 7th century and the beginning of the 9th. It had gone out of use before the beginning of the medieval period, and a series of boundary ditches, probably associated with early 11th-century redevelopment work on Southwell Minster, were excavated through it. Much of the site remained unoccupied, but intense activity took place in the north-west corner, where a complex sequence of intercutting features suggested that outlying ancillary structures on the minster plot were being moved and rebuilt as the boundary was intermittently replanned. A sequence of ditches on the east side of the site had been infilled with timber to form covered drains proved to be post-medieval to modern, and it seems likely that they were part of an enclosure-period land drainage and reclamation scheme.
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Author:		 Julian Sleap
Rachel Savage ORCID icon
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Publisher:		 Pre-Construct Archaeology Limited
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Other Person/Org:		 Nottinghamshire HER (OASIS Reviewer)
Historic England (OASIS Reviewer)
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Year of Publication:		 2015
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Site: Former Minster School Site, Church Street
County: Nottinghamshire
Parish: SOUTHWELL
Country: England
District: Newark and Sherwood
Grid Reference: 470339, 353695 (Easting, Northing)
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POST MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods)
DRAIN (Monument Type England)
TESSERA (Object England)
BOUNDARY WALL (Monument Type England)
EARLY MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods)
EXCAVATION (Event)
MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods)
ENCLOSURE (Monument Type England)
BOUNDARY DITCH (Monument Type England)
BUILDING (Monument Type England)
DITCH (Monument Type England)
WORKED BONE (Find)
POST STRUCTURE (Monus)
CERAMIC (Object England)
SHERD (Object England)
POST AND BEAM STRUCTURE (Monus)
WALL PLASTER (Object England)
CEMETERY (Monument Type England)
ROMAN (Historic England Periods)
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OASIS Id: preconst3-197002
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Note:		 Report consists of three volumes: Volume 1 is the report text, Volume 2 the illustrations and Volume 3 the appendices. Volumes 1 and 3 are A4 reports while Volume 2 is in A3 landscape format. Some of the larger finds databases are appended digitally only: in bound copies of the report they will be included on a CD.
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Created Date:		 05 Apr 2018