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Dabill, H. (2018). Land off Derby Road, Doveridge, Derbyshire: Archaeological Evaluation. Wessex Archaeology. https://doi.org/10.5284/1096157.
Brown, S. R., Daniel, P. (2022). Land off Derby Road, Doveridge, Derbyshire: Archaeological Archive Report. Wessex Archaeology. https://doi.org/10.5284/1125556.
Daniel P, Brown, S. M. (2019). Land off Derby Road, Doveridge, Derbyshire: Post-excavation Assessment and Updated Project Design. Wessex Archaeology. https://doi.org/10.5284/1096165.
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| Tong, J. (2015) An Historic Environment Desk Based Assessment of Land to the East of Bakers Lane, Doveridge, Derbyshire. Archaeological Research Services Ltd. : Bakewell. | |||
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| Filename | 205730-1_Desk_Based_Assessment.pdf (19 MB) |
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| Description | Archaeological Research Services Ltd was commissioned by Planning Design Practice Ltd to produce an historic environment desk-based assessment (DBA) of an area of land east of Bakers Lane, Doveridge, Derbyshire. This document has been prepared in advance of a planning application for c. 75 dwellings. The assessment identified two historic assets (an early 19th century structure and upstanding medieval ridge and furrow within the proposed development area which is considered to be of negligible archaeological significance as the structure has been demolished and little is likely to survive below ground. The potential for Bronze Age archaeological remains cannot be discounted as there is some slight evidence for Bronze Age activity within the wider study area. Given Doveridge’s riverine location and the presence of freely draining gravel terraces, Doveridge may have presented a potentially attractive location for prehistoric or medieval settlement and activity. The survival and significance of any hitherto unknown buried remains cannot be quantified or assessed without field evaluation. Archaeological remains from the later prehistoric periods are relatively scarce in the lowlands of Derbyshire. Although it has previously been noted that archaeological survey in areas of Derbyshire belonging to areas of the Mercian Mudstone geological group have been neglected and under-researched. The fields within the proposed development area contain the fossilised remains of medieval period ridge and furrow. These fields are part of an extensive series of fields within the wider study area which exhibit medieval ridge and furrow earthworks, indicating that the proposed development area was likely in use for cultivation during much of the medieval period but was subsequently utilised primarily as pasture. This assessment has identified that there is a medium-low potential for archaeological remains to survive within the PDA as buried features. Any unknown archaeological remains, pre-dating the medieval period, are likely to survive only as truncated features and so the significance of any such remains is likely to be no more than medium. It is recommended that discussions be undertaken by the Client or their representative with the Derbyshire County Council County Archaeologist to ascertain whether further archaeological evaluation works are necessary to accompany the planning application. If any such further works are required then this could take the form of a geophysical survey, targeted evaluation trenching or other targeted techniques. The hedgerows and ridge and furrow earthworks should be subject to appropriate archaeological survey prior to any groundworks commencing should planning consent be granted. |
| Elliott, S. (2019) Doveridge, Derbyshire, UK; Phytolith Analysis Report. Quest Quaternary Scientific : Reading. | |||
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| Filename | 205731_Doveridge_Phytolith_Report.pdf (26 MB) |
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| Description | Three samples from the archaeological site of Doveridge, an early Bronze Age settlement where an inverted cremation urn was discovered, were prepared for phytolith analysis. The investigations were commissioned Wessex Archaeology. The aim was to ascertain whether phytoliths were well preserved, and whether they suggest anthropogenic influence, any evidence for food or fuel and whether the results can help to understand Bronze Age cremation rituals. The results of the analysis show large number of well-preserved grass phytoliths, many originating from C3 pooideae grasses and C4 panicoideae grasses. Wheat and barley have been positively identified and probably oat and rye. The grass phytolith assemblage originated from both the grass leaves/stems and the inflorescence bracts. This could indicate that (1) the material deposited in this context was grown during spring or early summer and (2) that the material deposited was not separated from the other plant parts before deposition, or that multiple stages of crop processing are represented. The environmental conditions suggested by the phytoliths are a moist and wet growing environment in an open area. The phytoliths probably do not represent fuel remains as very few are burnt or mantled. |
| Durkin, R. (2015) Geophysical Survey of land to the East of Bakers Lane, Doveridge, Derbyshire. Archaeological Research Services Ltd. : Bakewell. | |||
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| Filename | 205730-1_Geophysical_Report.pdf (6 MB) |
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| Description | This report presents the results of a geophysical survey undertaken on land to the east of Bakers Lane, Doveridge in Derbyshire. An archaeological desk-based assessment (DBA) compiled in 2015 concluded that there is medium to low potential for archaeological remains to survive within the proposed development area. A geophysical survey was carried out between 21st and 24th April 2015 using a Bartington 601 dual sensor fluxgate gradiometer. Approximately 4.5ha. was included in the survey. The results have not revealed any definite evidence of any previously unknown significant sub-surface archaeological remains within the survey area although a small number of anomalies with some potential to be of archaeological origin have been identified. The geophysical survey also confirmed that large parts of the survey area appear to be devoid of detectable archaeological features other than surviving remains that are agricultural in origin and which possess historical value of negligible significance. Vague traces of the upstanding medieval ridge and furrow appear in the data and these suggest that in the northern field the ridge and furrow follows two alignments and is therefore, possibly, multi- phase. As the anomalies associated with the medieval ridge and furrow are vague in the dataset or have been removed at the data processing stage the results suggest that it is unlikely that any archaeological features have been masked by the ridge and furrow. |
| Gajos, P. (2018) Written Scheme Of Investigation For Archaeological Evaluation Trenching; Land Off Derby Road Doveridge Derbyshire. Lanpro Services Ltd. | |||
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| Filename | 205731_Doveridge_WSI.pdf (2 MB) |
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| Description | This Written Scheme of Investigation (WSI) has been prepared by Lanpro on behalf of Bellway Homes (the client) and details the methodology for undertaking a scheme of archaeological evaluation trenching of land off Derby Road, Doveridge, Derbyshire to inform a reserved matters application for residential development of the site. |
