Data from an Excavation between the River Leam and Stoneleigh Park, Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, 2019-2020 (HS2 Phase One)
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Introduction
This collection comprises reports, text documents, images, vector files, spreadsheets, GIS files and site records from an archaeological excavation carried out by Wessex Archaeology between the River Leam and Stoneleigh Park, East of Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, from February 2019 to January 2020.
Wessex Archaeology was commissioned to undertake an archaeological evaluation comprising the excavation of trenches between the River Leam and Stoneleigh Park, East of Leamington Spa, Warwickshire as required by Project Plan for Trial Trenching (1EW04‐LMJ‐PLN‐NS01_NL03‐029003‐C02). The evaluation site covers an area of 127 ha and runs for approximately 4.7 km between the River Leam and Stoneleigh Park. In the event, 249 trenches were excavated. Trial trenching highlighted six key areas of archaeological activity:
- Site 1: pitting/pit alignment (Iron Age)
- Site 2: stone‐filled drain, various pits, ditches and gullies (Undated–post‐medieval)
- Site 3: burnt mound, cremated human remains, pits and ditches (Bronze Age–Early Romano‐British)
- Site 4: enclosure and pits (Middle Iron Age–Early Romano‐British)
- Site 5: enclosure, pits, ring gullies (Middle Iron Age–Early Romano‐British)
- Site 6: Weston corn mill (post‐medieval)
The finds assemblage is relatively small and consists largely of pottery of Iron Age/Romano‐ British date, with a small post‐medieval/modern component. Cremated bone was recovered from three trenches; this is currently undated but presumed to be of Iron Age/Romano‐British date. The environmental assemblages are largely restricted to plant macro remains, usually charred although two samples contain waterlogged remains. Other materials (small animal bone, insects, mollusks) were not found in significant amounts. Most environmental assemblages comprise a small number of remains. The areas with positive preservation of environmental evidence will be identified for targeted sampling during any further works.
