Digital Archive for the A1 Leeming to Barton Motorway Upgrade Scheme, North Yorkshire 2013-2017

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Introduction

Working shot of excavations beside the A1
Working shot of excavations beside the A1

This archive presents the results of archaeological investigations carried out in conjunction with Highways England’s 2013-17 scheme to upgrade 19km of the A1 trunk road to motorway status between Leeming and Barton in North Yorkshire. While the A1 scheme passed through a known area of archaeological significance, remains ranging from the Mesolithic through to the Anglo-Saxon period exceeded all expectations. Amongst the sites investigated were: an Early Mesolithic camp at Little Holtby, near Leeming; a Bronze Age funerary site at Bowbridge Lane; a Roman cemetery and roadside settlement at Bainesse; parts of the Roman town at Cataractonium; a Roman roadside settlement at Scurragh House, and a Late Iron Age to Early Roman settlement at Scotch Corner.

The following five research themes were developed as part of a detailed and focused post-excavation strategy to bring the results of the fieldwork to publication:

  1. First Contact
  2. Dere Street
  3. Establishment, Consolidation and Retreat
  4. Death, Burial and Identity
  5. Intra- and Inter-site Deposition

The research themes and associated research questions have been addressed in three monographs, which respectively discuss the human burial evidence from across the scheme, the Late Iron Age and Early Roman activity around Scotch Corner, and the development of the Roman town at Cataractonium. The monographs are accompanied by an essay on the prehistoric evidence from the A1 scheme and another outlining the evolution of Dere Street:

Speed, G. P. and Holst, M. (2019). Death, Burial and Identity: 3000 Years of Death in the Vale of Mowbray. NAA Monograph Series 4. Barnard Castle: Northern Archaeological Associates. https://doi.org/10.5284/1050910.

Fell, D. W. (2020). Contact, Concord and Conquest: Britons and Romans at Scotch Corner. NAA Monograph Series 5. Barnard Castle: Northern Archaeological Associates. https://doi.org/10.5284/1078330.

Ross, S. and Ross, C. (2021). Cataractonium: Establishment, Consolidation and Retreat. NAA Monograph Series 6. Barnard Castle: Northern Archaeological Associates. https://doi.org/10.5284/1078331.

Speed, G. P. (2021). Living Between the Monuments: The prehistory of the Dishforth to Barton A1 Motorway Improvements. Northern Archaeological Associates. Barnard Castle. https://doi.org/10.5284/1090390.

Fell, D. W. and Johnson, P. G. (2021). The Evolution of Dere Street from Routeway to Motorway: Evidence from the Dishforth to Barton A1 Motorway Improvements. Northern Archaeological Associates. Barnard Castle. https://doi.org/10.5284/1090391.


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