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Land adjacent to Royston Road (r/o 5 and 6 Royston Road), Barkway, Hertfordshire: an archaeological trial trench evaluation |
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Archaeological Solutions Ltd unpublished report series
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Abstract: |
In August 2016, Archaeological Solutions Ltd carried out trial trench evaluation at Royston Road, Barkway, Hertfordshire. Five widely dispersed features contained Middle Bronze Age - Early Iron Age pottery: Pits F1012 (Trench 4), F1016 (Trench 5), F1010 (Trench 10) and F1008 (Trench 12), and Post Hole F1022 (Trench 9). Ditch F1055 (Trench 7) also contained prehistoric pottery. The number of sherds per feature was low (2 - 6 sherds) except Pit F1010 (Trench 10) which contained 52 sherds. The latter includes part of a vessel that may have been deposited near or wholly complete in the late Bronze Age/early Iron Age. Pit F1010 and Post Hole F1022 contained daub. In Pit F1010 two large fragments exhibit the impressions of straight cylindrical wattle rods; while in Post Hole F1022 four large fragments exhibit impression of comparable wattle rods (CBM and Daub report below). A ditch (F1040) and a re-cut ditch (F1047) in Trench 1 contained Roman pottery. The ditches appeared to correspond with a geophysical anomaly comprising an enclosure. They contained 5 - 24 sherds of pottery, and associated finds comprise CBM, animal bone and sparse shell, slag and iron fragments. |
Author: |
Kate Higgs
Kevin P Smith
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Publisher: |
Archaeological Solutions Ltd
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Historic England (OASIS Reviewer)
Hertfordshire HER (OASIS Reviewer)
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Year of Publication: |
2016
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Land at Royston Road, Barkway, Hertfordshire |
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Herefordshire |
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North Hertfordshire |
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BARKWAY |
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England |
Grid Reference: 538400, 236200 (Easting, Northing)
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archaeol7-265542 |
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Archaeological Solutions Report no. 5191 |
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18 Aug 2017 |