Images from an Archaeological Excavation at Belle Vue Stadium, Greater Manchester, Manchester 2021
Oxford Archaeology North, 2023. https://doi.org/10.5284/1102080. How to cite using this DOI
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Introduction
This digital archive consists of images from an archaeological excavation, undertaken by Oxford Archaeology, extending an earlier evaluation trench where archaeological remains had been encountered, at the site of a proposed housing development on the former Belle Vue Stadium, Kirkmanshulme Lane, Gorton, Manchester in 2021.
The structures relating to Lower Catsknowl farmstead survived, relatively poorly across the area, having been heavily truncated during the farmsteads demolition for the redevelopment of Belle Vue Stadium in the 1950s and 1980s, the remains of Higher Catsknowl did not survive as well as those at Lower Catsknowl with no evidence of them being identified in the evaluation trench. The remains of Lower Catsknowl identified during the evaluation were encountered during the excavation. The remains that were identified in the excavation corresponded well with the historic mapping. No environmental samples were recovered during the fieldwork, due to there being no suitable deposits, and no finds were retained, as only a small number of ceramic finds were identified which were largely residual.
