Day, M. (2019). Land at School Farm, Churchover, Rugby an Archaeological Evaluation. Cirencester: Cotswold Archaeology. https://doi.org/10.5284/1112468. Cite this using datacite

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Title:		 Land at School Farm, Churchover, Rugby an Archaeological Evaluation
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Abstract:		 The fieldwork comprised the excavation of 87 trenches in the locations depicted on Figure 2. A number of trenches had to be moved and/or shortened on site due to physical site constraints. Trench 51 was divided in two due to a strong CAT and Genny signal, which suggested the presence of buried live services. Two water pipes were also exposed in this trench requiring that parts were not excavated to the natural substrate. Trenches were set out on OS National Grid (NGR) co-ordinates using Leica GPS and surveyed in accordance with CA Technical Manual 4 Survey Manual. All trenches were excavated by mechanical excavator equipped with a toothless grading bucket. All machine excavation was undertaken under constant archaeological supervision to the top of the first significant archaeological horizon or the natural substrate, whichever was encountered first. Where archaeological deposits were encountered they were excavated by hand in accordance with CA Technical Manual 1: Fieldwork Recording Manual. Deposits were assessed for their palaeoenvironmental potential in accordance with CA Technical Manual 2: The Taking and Processing of Environmental and Other Samples from Archaeological Sites and, no deposits were identified that required sampling. All artefacts recovered were processed in accordance with CA Technical Manual 3: Treatment of Finds Immediately after Excavation. The archive and artefacts from the evaluation are currently held by CA at its Milton Keynes office. Subject to the agreement of the legal landowner the artefacts will be deposited with Rugby Art Gallery and Museum under an accession number to be confirmed; along with the site archive. A summary of information from this project, set out within Appendix D, will be entered onto the OASIS online database of archaeological projects in Britain. An archaeological evaluation was undertaken by Cotswold Archaeology in June 2019 on Land at School Farm, Churchover, Rugby, Warwickshire. Eighty-seven trenches were excavated across the c.24ha site, which comprises seven agricultural (grassland) fields. The results of a geophysical survey of the site, preceding the evaluation, did not highlight any areas of notable archaeological potential, with the exception of the remains of former ridge and furrow field systems. During the field evaluation, several features of archaeological origin were recorded. The earliest of these, a single gully, dated to the Middle to Late Iron Age and contained 16 very abraded sherds of pottery and 12 pieces of undiagnostic animal bone. This could be representative of agricultural activity in a period where the site comprised part of a wider agricultural hinterland. However, the sparsity of archaeological remains of this period anywhere elsewhere within the site, must leave this as a tentative supposition. A single piece of brick or tile of Roman origin was recovered from one furrow and a single sherd of medieval pottery from another. It is likely that these finds are associated with rubbish dumped during manuring in the medieval to postmedieval period. Across the site, predominantly on a north-east/south-west orientation, the infilled and buried remains of furrows were identified; their broadly linear morphology suggests these may date to the post-medieval period.
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Author:		 M Day
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Other Person/Org:		 Warwickshire HER (OASIS Reviewer)
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Year of Publication:		 2019
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Parish: Churchover
District: Rugby
Country: England
County: Warwickshire
Grid Reference: 452157, 281096 (Easting, Northing)
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Created Date:		 15 Aug 2023