Series: Environmental Advisory Unit Ltd unpublished report series

A programme of surface artefact scanning, test-pit and machine trench excavation and geophysical survey was carried out on the route of the proposed improvement of the A303 Wylye to Stockton Wood section. With the exception of small and very-low scatters of worked and burnt flint from surface artefact scanning and a single subsoil feature from test pitting, little evidence of past human activity was recovered. The investigation of the projected line of a Roman road by means of both excavation and geophysical survey failed to produce any evidence for its existence. [Au]