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Ramsbury Manor Visitors Centre Archaeological Evaluation |
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Wessex Archaeology unpublished report series
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Wessex Archaeology was commissioned to carry out a trial trench evaluation of approximately 2 Ha of land located at Ramsbury Manor. The evaluation comprising twelve trial trenches Evidence of post-medieval landscaping, ditches and a pathway was found. Both trenches 1 and 2 contained complex layers of made ground that suggest the area has been substantially landscaped. The section in trench 11, 200m away in Area C was very similar. These may be evidence of the work begun around 1775 by James Sanderson to create an informal landscape park. A number of post medieval ditches were observed While ditches 504 and 804 contained some worked flint they were very abraded, and the presence of modern glass suggests they went out of use in the post-medieval or modern periods. No combination clearly matches the "possible road continuation" from the geoarchaeological survey. The best fit is for a ditch that runs through 506, 603, 703 and 804. Trench 10 was located across the geophysical anomaly marked as "18th century roads" and contains a flint cobbled hollow. It contained animal bone, CBM, clay pipe, pottery and a free-blown green wine bottle, probably a 'shaft and globe' form (from the 17th to early 18th century) but long enough ago that a tree with a 2 m root ball has fulfilled its lifecycle. It is therefore possible that the feature was decommissioned as part of the Sanderson's landscaping carried out in the last quarter of the 18th century No significant archaeological features were uncovered but evidence of post-medieval ditches and pathways was found. The ditch segments observed in the trenches of Area B do not clearly match the nature of the anomalies noted in the geophysics survey as a possible continuation of the 18th century road, but within Area C, trench 10 does correspond well with the location and orientation of the previously identified roadway. The presence of trees in Areas A and C meant that trenches 1 and 2 were significantly curtailed and trench 3 moved to Area 3. And trenches 9 and 11 were moved away from their original locations and therefore did not test the geophysics survey results, as originally planned. A number of very abraded pieces of worked flint were recovered both from the topsoil and the ditch fills. The pottery, clay pipe and glass artefacts all date to the 17th and 18th century. |
| Author: |
Jon Kaines
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| Publisher: |
Wessex Archaeology
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| Year of Publication: |
2021
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Wiltshire |
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Wiltshire |
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Ramsbury |
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England |
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Grid Reference: 425831, 171235 (Easting, Northing)
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wessexar1-432274 |
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209713.03 |
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| Created Date: |
21 Sep 2023 |
