Phillips, M. (2009). Land at Victoria Allotments, West Street, Dunstable, Bedfordshire: Archaeological Mitigation. Bedford: Albion Archaeology. https://doi.org/10.5284/1011586.  Cite this via datacite

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Title: Land at Victoria Allotments, West Street, Dunstable, Bedfordshire: Archaeological Mitigation
Series: Albion Archaeology unpublished report series
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https://doi.org/10.5284/1011586
Publication Type: Report (in Series)
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
Publisher: Albion Archaeology
Other Person/Org: Historic England (OASIS Reviewer)
Central Bedfordshire HER (OASIS Reviewer)
Year of Publication: 2009
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Site: Land at Victoria Allotments SARM
Parish: DUNSTABLE
District: Central Bedfordshire
County: Bedfordshire
Country: England
Grid Reference: 501280, 221560 (Easting, Northing)
Subjects / Periods:
POST MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods) POT (Object England)
20TH CENTURY (Historic England Periods) BOUNDARY DITCH (Monument Type England)
UNCERTAIN (Historic England Periods) INHUMATION (Monument Type England)
POST MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods) Wheel Ruts (Monus)
EXCAVATION (Event)
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OASIS Id: albionar1-56377
OBIB: 2009/4
Note: A4 comb bound client report.
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Created Date: 24 Nov 2016