Wessex Archaeology (2017). Mottisfont Biomass Project, Mottisfont, Hampshire, Archaeological Watching Brief Report. Wessex Archaeology. https://doi.org/10.5284/1055973. Cite this using datacite

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Title:		 Mottisfont Biomass Project, Mottisfont, Hampshire, Archaeological Watching Brief Report
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Series:		 Wessex Archaeology unpublished report series
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Publication Type:		 Report (in Series)
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Abstract:		 Wessex Archaeology was commissioned by the National Trust to maintain an archaeological watching brief during groundworks associated with the installation of a biomass boiler at Mottisfont Abbey, Mottisfont, Hampshire (NGR 432662 126960). The monitoring focused on the excavation of a pipeline trench from an existing 19th century unlisted cart shed at Abbey Farm in the west of the site (the subject of an earlier historic building survey by Allen Archaeology Ltd), across some 250 m of the historic landscaped gardens, to the grade I listed Mottisfont Abbey House, with a connection to the grade II* listed stable block. The archaeological watching brief was necessary in order to discharge conditions attached to a planning application (no. 16/00330/FULLS), granted (subject to conditions) by Test Valley Borough Council in May 2016. The watching brief was carried out in separate phases corresponding to trench numbers, between the 3 October and 3 November 2016. A number of structural features containing handmade unfrogged bricks were uncovered during the watching brief, and are of post-medieval or modern date. Yet the position of many of these walls and surfaces in the archaeological sequence revealed in the trenches indicates that most of these date to the 19th or early 20th century. It can be stated with confidence that the majority of these are likely to relate to designed features within the landscaped gardens, located in the area to the north-west of Mottisfont Abbey House and to the south-east of the stable block. No medieval features or deposits were uncovered that could be associated with the medieval Augustinian priory, though a small number of residual finds, mainly tile fragments including a glazed decorative example, were found re-deposited in later contexts.
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Author:		 Wessex Archaeology
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Publisher:		 Wessex Archaeology
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Other Person/Org:		 Historic England (OASIS Reviewer)
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Year of Publication:		 2017
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Site: Mottisfont Biomass Project
County: Hampshire
District: Test Valley
Parish: MOTTISFONT
Country: England
Grid Reference: 432662, 126960 (Easting, Northing)
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POST MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods) BUTTON (Object England)
MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods) CERAMIC (Object England)
MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods) SHERD (Object England)
POST MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods) WALL (Monument Type England)
WATCHING BRIEF (Event)
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OASIS Id: wessexar1-270274
OBIB: 113660.02
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Created Date:		 16 Aug 2019