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Archaeological Investigations at Ball Mill Quarry Grimley, Worcestershire: Church Farm South |
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Worcestershire Archaeology unpublished report series
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Abstract: |
A programme of archaeological investigation has been completed at the Church Farm South extension to Ball Mill Quarry, Grimley, Worcestershire (NGR SO 38309 26056; HER ref 46309). The work was undertaken by Worcestershire Archaeology (WA) on behalf of Lafarge Tarmac Limited in advance of mineral extraction. Cropmarks have previously been widely mapped in this area including within the Church Farm South extension where these were interpreted as representing the ditches of a former field system associated with fragmentary stock penning and settlement enclosures. Clusters of pits and a ringditch were also plotted and together these form part of an extensive cropmark landscape in the area surrounding the villages of Holt and Grimley. Many areas of this landscape have been investigated in advance of earlier phases of quarrying and these previous investigations have revealed a palimpsest of funerary monuments, settlement enclosures and stock pens along with related tracks and field systems dating from the Bronze Age through to the early medieval period. The most recent investigations revealed that only very limited elements of the cropmark landscape had survived in this area due to truncation by ploughing. Surviving remains included a number of small and poorly dated prehistoric pits. These may provide further examples of features such as this which have been found scattered across the wider area. These may be of Iron Age date but more probably relate to short-lived periods of residence during the earlier Bronze Age; the selection of this location perhaps having been influenced by the presence of several funerary monuments of comparable date in the vicinity which may have provided a focal point in the local landscape. Several ditches were also recorded and can be suggested to form part of the Romano- British field system associated with one of a number of farmstead enclosures known to the north. |
Author: |
P Lovett
Tom Rogers
Robin Jackson
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Publisher: |
Worcestershire Archaeology
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Other Person/Org: |
Historic England (OASIS Reviewer)
Herefordshire HER (OASIS Reviewer)
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Year of Publication: |
2014
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Ball Mill Quarry. Church Farm South |
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Worcestershire |
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Malvern Hills |
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GRIMLEY |
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England |
Grid Reference: 383090, 260560 (Easting, Northing)
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fieldsec1-237465 |
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Report Reference 1988 |
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06 Nov 2017 |