Gregson, R. (2012). Land at Thorn Turn, Houghton Regis, Bedfordshire: Archaeological Field Evaluation. Bedford: Albion Archaeology. https://doi.org/10.5284/1045914. Cite this using datacite

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Title:		 Land at Thorn Turn, Houghton Regis, Bedfordshire: Archaeological Field Evaluation
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Series:		 Albion Archaeology unpublished report series
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Abstract:		 The Central Bedfordshire Council BEaR Project has identified an area of land at Thorn Turn to the north-west of Houghton Regis as a potential waste management site and is engaged in the preparation of a planning application. An archaeological field evaluation comprised geophysical survey (Stratascan 2012) followed by trial trenching. Forty-four of the 50 excavated trenches contained archaeological features. These comprised ditches and pits, dating from at least the Roman period and through the medieval, post-medieval and modern periods. A number of undated features were also identified. The majority of the features from the Roman period onwards appear to be associated with land division away from any main settlement focus. Very few datable artefacts were recovered from the site. Despite this general lack of direct evidence from datable artefacts, a sequence of land use changes, going back to the Roman period, is postulated based on the alignments of ditches with field boundaries marked on maps of the area (from 1762 onwards) and stratigraphic relationships with tentatively dated colluvial layers.
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Author:		 R Gregson
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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:		 2012
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Site: Land at Thorn Turn
County: Bedfordshire
District: Central Bedfordshire
Parish: HOUGHTON REGIS
Country: England
Grid Reference: 500040, 224230 (Easting, Northing)
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ROMAN (Historic England Periods) SHERD (Object England)
ROMAN (Historic England Periods) TILE (Object England)
MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods) DITCH (Monument Type England)
20TH CENTURY (Historic England Periods) DITCH (Monument Type England)
POST MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods) DITCH (Monument Type England)
ROMAN (Historic England Periods) DITCH (Monument Type England)
UNCERTAIN (Historic England Periods) DITCH (Monument Type England)
MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods) FURROWS (Monus)
MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods) PIT (Monument Type England)
POST MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods) TRACKWAY (Monument Type England)
TRIAL TRENCH (Event)
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OASIS Id: albionar1-131918
OBIB: 2012/76
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Created Date:		 12 Feb 2018