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Derek
Hurst
Post-excavation Manager
Worcestershire Historic Environment and Archaeology Service
Woodbury
Worcester University
Henwick Grove, Worcester
WR2 6AJ
England
Tel: 01905 765908
The Blackstone site (NGR SO 792736) is an enclosure of c 1.5a, located on a promontory above the River Severn, north of Worcester and between Stourport-on-Severn and Bewdley, and was part of Wribbenhall in Kidderminster parish.
The ALSF project relates to a pre-PPG16 excavation that was undertaken in the 1970s in advance of aggregate quarrying in north Worcestershire, when large areas were being removed without any formal archaeological provision. This work was focussed on an enclosure discovered through aerial photography, and this was revealed to be of Iron Age date and was associated with domestic features. The fieldwork featured advanced use of techniques for the gathering of environmental data about the site and its region. The archive is valuable archaeologically as there has been little archaeological work in this region of north Worcestershire since, and besides remains of Iron Age date are relatively uncommon across this part of the Midlands.
The ALSF project undertook an assessment of the archive with an updated project design for the completion of site analysis and dissemination. The main output of the project was an open access Internet Archaeology article:
http://intarch.ac.uk/journal/issue28/hurst_index.html
The original assessment of site archive and updated project design report has been archived, and is available from the downloads section of this archive. The full reference for the report is as follows:
Hurst, D., Griffin, L., Morris, E., Pearson, E., Roe, F., Woodward, P. 2007: Iron Age settlement at Blackstone, Assessment of site archive, report 1557. Field Section, Historic Environment and Archaeology Service: Worcester.