Hunnisett, C. (2010). Warminster Community Centre, Pepper Place, Warminster. Wessex Archaeology. https://doi.org/10.5284/1027889. Cite this using datacite

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Title:		 Warminster Community Centre, Pepper Place, Warminster
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Series:		 Wessex Archaeology unpublished report series
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Abstract:		 Wessex Archaeology was commissioned by Brymor Contractors Ltd on behalf of Aspire Defence Capital Works to carry out an archaeological watching brief during the construction of a new community centre on land at Pepper Place, Warminster, Wiltshire (hereafter the Site), centred on National Grid Reference 388540 145470. The work was required as a condition of planning consent issued by Wiltshire Council. The watching brief revealed a small number of features, the most notable being a grave containing a single inhumation burial. The shallow, sub-rectangular grave was oriented east to west and had cut through a Romano-British field drainage ditch and a number of tree throws. The grave contained a single elderly adult male, buried in a supine, extended position with the head to the west. Iron hobnails around the feet indicated hobnailed boots, and a fragment of iron pin may have been a clothes fastening. The hobnailed footwear and fragments of pottery date the burial to the late Romano-British period. A sample of bone from the skeleton was submitted for radiocarbon dating. The result confirmed the above findings, with a calibrated date of cal. AD 220-390, indicating a probable Middle to Late Romano-British or early 3rd to late 4th century AD date for the burial. A number of other features were identified, including three shallow, parallel and evenly spaced ditches running north to south, which are likely to represent field drainage, and a small storage pit which contained nails from a hobnailed boot, animal bone and a whole bird's egg. All these features date to the Romano-British period, with pottery sherds dating to the middle Romano-British period retrieved from two of the ditches.
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Author:		 Chloe Hunnisett
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Publisher:		 Wessex Archaeology
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Other Person/Org:		 Historic England (OASIS Reviewer)
Wiltshire and Swindon HER (OASIS Reviewer)
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Year of Publication:		 2010
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Site: Warminster Community Centre, Pepper Place
Parish: WARMINSTER
District: Wiltshire
County: Wiltshire
Country: England
Location - Auto Detected: Pepper Place Warminster Wiltshire
Grid Reference: 388700, 145600 (Easting, Northing)
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ROMAN (Historic England Periods) Hob Nails (Find)
ROMAN (Historic England Periods) Iron Pin (Find)
ROMAN (Historic England Periods) SHERD (Object England)
ROMAN (Historic England Periods) DITCH (Monument Type England)
ROMAN (Historic England Periods) GRAVE (Monument Type England)
ROMAN (Historic England Periods) PIT (Monument Type England)
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Early 3rd To Late 4th Century Ad (Auto Detected Temporal)
WATCHING BRIEF (Event)
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OASIS Id: wessexar1-87625
OBIB: 72510.01
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Created Date:		 28 Nov 2016