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Title:

Land off Derby Road, Doveridge, Derbyshire: Post-excavation Assessment and Updated Project Design

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Wessex Archaeology unpublished report series

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5284/1096165

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Abstract:

Strip, map and sample excavation of three areas of archaeological interest identifed by an earlier trial trench evaluation. Three separate areas occupying 0.15 hectares in total were excavated. Area 1 contained the remains of a plough-denuded barrow. A complete ring ditch enclosed a 22 m diameter area that contained the poorly preserved remains of the barrow mound and six cremation graves. One of the cremation graves contained a complete inverted Early Bronze Age Collared Urn containing the remains of three children (<17 years old). There was also an east–west ditch alongside a scatter of undated discrete pits/postholes within the enclosed area. The barrow mound had been cut by a ‘C’-shaped ditch, which was radiocarbon dated to the medieval (13th–14th century) period. External to the ring ditch lay further pits, postholes and field boundary ditches. Some of these were post-medieval in date.Within Area 2 lay a well or waterhole (2003); finds from the feature included a heat-blackened fragment of upper rotary quern of Roman disc form and worked wood, possibly representing part of a pulley wheel, radiocarbon dated to the 8th–10th century AD. A circular large pit/small pond (3003) was exposed in Area 3; within its upper fill were quantities of slag alongside medieval and post-medieval pot.Radiocarbon results indicate burials were made at the Site over a period of up to around 140 years in the later part of the Early Bronze Age. Unlike other funerary monuments in the region, the demographic profile of the dead seems relatively restricted, with a marked preponderance of immature individuals. The topographic setting of the barrow – at the southwestern limit of the Derbyshire uplands above the River Dove, which links the Trent valley and the heart of the White Peak – is thought to have influenced the siting of the barrow, with the monument potentially having a territory-marking function. There was no evidence of the recurrence of funerary activity at the Site following the Early Bronze Age. It is however suggested that the presence of later features on and around the barrow – such as the well/waterhole with Roman and early medieval finds – may be rooted in the significance that later populations believed the monument to have.

Author:

Daniel P
S M Brown

Publisher:

Wessex Archaeology

Year of Publication:

2019

Locations:

Parish:	Doveridge
District:	Derbyshire Dales
County:	Derbyshire
Country:	England

Grid Reference: 412289, 334029 (Easting, Northing)

Subjects / Periods:

ROMAN (Historic England Periods)
BRONZE AGE (Historic England Periods)
POST MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods)
EARLY BRONZE AGE (Historic England Periods)
LATER PREHISTORIC (Historic England Periods)
EARLY MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods)
MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods)
	ROUND BARROW (Monument Type England)
	CREMATION GRAVE (Monument Type England)
	PULLEY (Object England)
	POST MEDIEVAL POT (Tag)
	BRONZE AGE POT (Tag)
	CINERARY URN (Object England)
	MEDIEVAL POT (Tag)
	LATER PREHISTORIC DEBITAGE (Tag)
	EARLY BRONZE AGE CREMATION GRAVE (Tag)
	EXCAVATION (Event)
	EARLY BRONZE AGE CINERARY URN (Tag)
	ROMAN ROTARY QUERN (Tag)
	POST MEDIEVAL DITCH (Tag)
	MEDIEVAL DITCH (Tag)
	DEBITAGE (Object England)
	DITCH (Monument Type England)
	EARLY BRONZE AGE ROUND BARROW (Tag)
	POT (Object England)
	EARLY MEDIEVAL PULLEY (Tag)
	ROTARY QUERN (Object England)

Identifiers:

OASIS Id:	wessexar1-349682
OBIB:	205731.2

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Created Date:

13 Jul 2022