Bush, S. (2017). Land west of Horndean Road, Emsworth, Hampshire: Archaeological Excavation. Cirencester: Cotswold Archaeology. https://doi.org/10.5284/1056415. Cite this using datacite

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Title:		 Land west of Horndean Road, Emsworth, Hampshire: Archaeological Excavation
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Series:		 Cotswold Archaeology unpublished report series
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Abstract:		 An archaeological excavation was undertaken by Cotswold Archaeology during September and October 2017 at Emsworth, Hampshire. The excavation area was located at the eastern side of a larger development area located directly to the west of Horndean Road, and targeted features identified during a previous evaluation of the site. The excavation identified three phases of activity, two of which were of a limited nature. The earliest phase was associated with small amounts of residual prehistoric worked flint ranging in date from the Lower Palaeolithic to Early Neolithic, as well as by burnt flint. The second, Roman, phase was dated from the 1st-2nd century date and comprised the majority of the features uncovered. They include ditches indicative of enclosures, small fields or paddocks, pits, and a post-built structure. Although stratigraphic relationships appear to show that not all the ditches were necessarily in use at the same time, it is also possible that at least some of the paddocks were contemporary and the field layouts were evolving rather than planned re-designs of land use. The pottery from the site is almost entirely Roman, and of a type generally associated with a low status rural farmstead. Plant macrofossils suggest little domestic settlement activity in the immediate vicinity and that the ditches related more to areas of pasture and stock control rather than to arable crops. Quern stones and a millstone fragment do however, suggest that cereal processing was occurring somewhere in the wider environs. The final phase of recorded activity, in the post-medieval period, was indicated by a post-built structure dated through pottery and ceramic building material, and a single ditch. The site is of local significance and merits a short summary report in the local archaeological journal, Hampshire Studies, the Proceedings of the Hampshire Field Club and Archaeological Society.
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Author:		 S Bush
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Publisher:		 Cotswold Archaeology
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Year of Publication:		 2017
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County: Hampshire
District: Havant
Parish: HAVANT
Country: England
Site: Land West of Horndean Road, Emsworth
Grid Reference: 474341, 107083 (Easting, Northing)
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POST MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods)
PALAEOLITHIC (Historic England Periods)
ROMAN (Historic England Periods)
GULLIES (Monus)
DITCHED ENCLOSURE (Monument Type England)
POSTHOLE (Monus)
PIT (Monument Type England)
HAND AXE (Find)
POST-BUILT STRUCTURE (Monus)
EXCAVATION (Event)
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OASIS Id: cotswold2-323046
OBIB: 18156
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Created Date:		 13 Sep 2019