Images and a Report from an Archaeological Excavation at Royal Wootton Bassett Sports Hub, Wiltshire 2014
AC Archaeology Ltd, 2022. https://doi.org/10.5284/1097762. How to cite using this DOI
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Manor Farm Stables
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- DOI:https://doi.org/10.5284/1097762
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Introduction
This collection comprises images and a report from the archaeological excavation of three areas on a development site for a sports hub on land at Royal Wootton Bassett, Wiltshire. Work was undertaken by AC archaeology during June and July 2014.
The majority of the archaeological features were located in Excavation Area A, which revealed settlement features of probable Iron Age and Romano-British date. These consisted of a roundhouse represented by a ring gully, and a pair of rectangular buildings indicated by postholes and cill beam slots. Adjacent to these buildings were several other pits and postholes, the latter perhaps revealing evidence for further buildings, a pair of wells and an inhumation burial of a new born child.
To the west of the structures was a field boundary of probable Iron Age origin which was reused in the Romano-British period. Part of the re-use of this boundary showed that it post-dated shallow quarry pits, also of Romano-British date, which may have provided limestone for lime production, although no lime kilns were identified on site.
The majority of the finds, including coins, a brooch, pottery and animal bones were of Romano-British date and indicate that the remains of this period are of a low status rural settlement of late 1st/early 2nd to 3rd century AD date, with some minor continuation in to the mid-4th century. Other archaeological features in Excavation Area A and Areas B and C included undated pits, a further Romano-British quarry pit and field boundaries of medieval and post-medieval date.
