Data from a Trial Trenching between the River Avon and Dalehouse Lane, Crewe Farm, Warwickshire, 2018-2023 (HS2 Phase One)
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Introduction
The archive comprises the digital records and files created during the 2018 Wessex Archaeology Evaluation at Crewe Farm in the Warwick District of Warwickshire and the subsequent post-excavation assessment and analysis. It is also includes paper records, photographic records, graphics, artefacts, ecofacts and digital data.
Wessex Archaeology was commissioned to undertake an evaluation comprising 119 trenches at Crewe Farm, Warwickshire. The evaluation site covers an area of 54 ha and runs for 1.5km between the River Avon in the south‐east and Dale House Lane in the north‐west. The most significant finding was the discovery of three pits containing cremated bone (identifiable as human in two features) with one deposit representing the remains of an urned burial. Datable material was recovered from each pit, including glass and amber beads deposited as possible burial goods associated with the urned cremation grave providing an Anglo‐Saxon date. Trial trenching identified a hot spot in the south‐west of the site with a concentration of possible Romano‐British and definite Anglo‐Saxon features localised to trench 74. Archaeological remains were sparse in the rest of the site with the majority of features remaining undated. There are no designated heritage assets such as world heritage sites, scheduled monuments, listed buildings, registered battlefields or registered parks and gardens within the evaluation area. The closest designated heritage asset lies immediately to the south of the evaluation area; this is the Grade II registered park and garden of Stoneleigh. The park forms part of a country estate surrounding a listed mansion house; some of the listed buildings incorporate elements of earlier medieval monastic buildings from which the estate name is derived.
