Data from an Archaeological Mitigation at Water Orton, North Warwickshire, 2020-2021 (HS2 Phase One)
High Speed Two Ltd., Wessex Archaeology, 2025. https://doi.org/10.5284/1135514. How to cite using this DOI
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- DOI:https://doi.org/10.5284/1135514
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Introduction
This collection comprises text documents, images, site records, spreadsheets, GIS files and CAD drawings from an archaeological mitigation fieldwork undertaken out by Wessex Archaeology at Water Orton, North Warwickshire between 2020 and 2021.
The mitigation area is located over four agricultural fields situated c.150 m to the south of Water Orton, c.700 m east of Castle Bromwich and c.400 m west of Gilson. The archaeological mitigation work exposed and recorded archaeological remains comprising two burnt mounds thought to be of Bronze Age date, a Romano-British field system, medieval to post-medieval cultivation furrows, a post-medieval watering hole, and scattered undated pits and gullies.
The earliest datable evidence from the mitigation area was a worked flint of Mesolithic date, recovered during test-pitting. The earliest securely dated features were boundary ditches associated with a coaxial field system, which contained a small amount of Romano-British pottery.
No artefactual evidence securely dating to the Bronze Age was recovered from the burnt mounds or their associated features; the majority of the artefactual material recovered was likely from later disturbance. An exception to this was a number of waterlogged worked timbers found in two of the pits, which are thought to be the fragmented remains of wood-lined troughs. The evaluation revealed two areas of concentrated archaeology. This comprised two burnt mounds c.200 m apart and four pits filled with burnt mound deposits in the centre of the evaluation area. An Iron Age to Romano-British enclosure and field system was identified to the west of this.
