Boughton, S. (2020). Land to the South of Woodrow Road, Melksham, Wiltshire: Archaeological Evaluation. Cirencester: Cotswold Archaeology. https://doi.org/10.5284/1088921. Cite this using datacite

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Title:		 Land to the South of Woodrow Road, Melksham, Wiltshire: Archaeological Evaluation
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Series:		 Cotswold Archaeology unpublished report series
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Publication Type:		 Report (in Series)
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Abstract:		 In October 2020, Cotswold Archaeology carried out an archaeological evaluation of Land to the South of Woodrow Road, Melksham, Wiltshire. A total of 13 trenches were excavated. A single, highly abraded, sherd of pottery of broad Roman date was recovered as a residual find from the fill of a furrow identified in a trench excavated in the north-western part of the site. A single sherd of medieval (late 13th to 16th-century) pottery was recovered from the fill of a posthole identified within a trench excavated in the central part of the site. A further, undated, posthole was also identified in this trench and is likely to be broadly contemporary. The function of these postholes remains unclear, although they may relate to agricultural stock management or land division. Further evidence of medieval and/or post-medieval agricultural activity, comprising the ploughed-out remains of ridgeand- furrow cultivation, was identified in the south-eastern and north-western parts of the site. A number of undated ditches/gullies and pits were identified in trenches excavated the northern, western and south-eastern parts of the site. The precise function of these features remains unclear but the absence of artefactual and faunal material within the fills of these features suggests that they lay at an appreciable distance from any areas of former settlement, and are therefore most likely to have been associated with agricultural activities.
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Author:		 S-J Boughton
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Publisher:		 Cotswold Archaeology
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Other Person/Org:		 Historic England (OASIS Reviewer)
Wiltshire and Swindon HER (OASIS Reviewer)
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Year of Publication:		 2020
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County: Wiltshire
District: Wiltshire
Parish: MELKSHAM
Country: England
Site: Land to the South of Woodrow Road
Grid Reference: 391610, 165040 (Easting, Northing)
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TRIAL TRENCH (Event)
MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods)
NONE (Historic England Periods)
UNCERTAIN (Historic England Periods)
PIT (Monument Type England)
DITCH (Monument Type England)
NONE (Find)
POSTHOLE (Monus)
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OASIS Id: cotswold2-414866
OBIB: CR0506_1
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Project archive: https://doi.org/10.5284/1090360
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Created Date:		 29 Oct 2021