| Title: |
Land at Victoria Allotments, West Street, Dunstable, Bedfordshire: Archaeological Mitigation |
| Series: |
Albion Archaeology unpublished report series
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| Licence Type: |
ADS Terms of Use and Access
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| Publication Type: |
Report (in Series)
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| Abstract: |
South Bedfordshire District Council granted planning permission, for the change of use of allotment gardens to cemetery use at the Victoria Allotments, West Street, Dunstable. A condition attached to the planning permission required the implementation of a Scheme of Archaeological Resource Management (SARM) as a consequence of the development. Bedfordshire County Council's Archaeological Officer (CAO) issued a Brief, which was designed to secure the implementation of a programme of archaeological resource management in fulfilment of that condition. Groundworks required as part of the change involved removal of overburden within the footprint of a new access road and footpath, which were the focus of the archaeological mitigation. A single adult inhumation burial (probably of Roman date) represents the earliest remains found. The grave contained no dateable artefacts, although it pre-dated a series of wheel ruts some of which cut into the upper fill of the grave. The wheel ruts form an extensive group of parallel ruts aligned ENE to WSW; they represent the remains of a wide, un-metalled trackway. The latest archaeological feature was a ditch aligned ENE to WSW situated on the boundary between the rutted track and the terrace slope. This contained modern (19th/20th century) debris. |
| Author: |
Mark Phillips
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| Publisher: |
Albion Archaeology
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| Other Person/Org: |
Historic England (OASIS Reviewer)
Central Bedfordshire HER (OASIS Reviewer)
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| Year of Publication: |
2009
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| Locations: |
| Site: |
Land at Victoria Allotments SARM |
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DUNSTABLE |
| District: |
Central Bedfordshire |
| County: |
Bedfordshire |
| Country: |
England |
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Grid Reference: 501280, 221560 (Easting, Northing)
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| OASIS Id: |
albionar1-56377 |
| OBIB: |
2009/4 |
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| Note: |
A4 comb bound client report.
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| Created Date: |
24 Nov 2016 |
