Images and GIS Data from Archaeological Works at Severn Road, Stourport-on-Severn, Worcestershire 2022
Cotswold Archaeology, 2023. https://doi.org/10.5284/1103323. How to cite using this DOI
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- DOI:https://doi.org/10.5284/1103323
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Introduction
This collection comprises images and GIS data from a programme of archaeological work on land at Severn Road, Stourport-on-Severn, Worcestershire carried out by Cotswold Archaeology in May and August 2022. A total of 15 evaluation trenches were excavated and three areas of groundworks were archaeologically monitored.
A probable Roman pit was identified in a trench excavated in the south-western part of site, with its location corresponding to a probable gravel island deposited by riverine action.
Structural remains, correlating with boundary walls and buildings relating to a late 19th to early 20th-century carpet works, as depicted on historic mapping were recorded across the site.
A reinforced concrete basement and a 600mm narrow gauge hand cart rail system, recorded in the centre of the site, are considered likely to be associated with the use of site as a munitions factory during the Second World War.
A post-medieval/modern animal burial was identified in the southern extent of the site, and late 20th-century structural remains, likely relating to the post-War expansion of the carpet works and its subsequent demolition in the early 21st century, were also recorded.
