Edmondson, G. and Turner, I. (2010). 10 Hitchin Street, Biggleswade, Bedfordshire: Archaeological Field Evaluation. Bedford: Albion Archaeology. https://doi.org/10.5284/1051205. Cite this using datacite

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Title:		 10 Hitchin Street, Biggleswade, Bedfordshire: Archaeological Field Evaluation
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Abstract:		 Albion Archaeology have been commissioned to undertake an archaeological evaluation in advance of development of the plot of land previously occupied by the Black Bear Inn, Hitchin Street, Biggleswade. The evaluation revealed that a significant part of the street frontage area had been disturbed by the former Black Bear Inn, with a series of cellars occupying the footprint of the building, with additional cellarage to the rear. An inn has occupied this site since at least 1661. Despite truncation, a series of deposits dating from the medieval and post-medieval period were revealed. Residual prehistoric artefacts comprising a flint flake and a small sherd of late 'Belgic' Iron Age pottery were recovered from later features near the street frontage. The significance of these is uncertain. The earliest feature was a small area of cultivation soil situated immediately to the west of the former inn. The date of the activity is uncertain, although it may have been associated with a substantial recut boundary ditch, aligned roughly north-south, which is oblique to the current street, some 8.5m to the east. A late medieval pit truncated the cultivation soil. Immediately to the west of the ditched boundary was an extensive pit, probably a quarry at least 12m long. As well as 17th-18th century artefacts, the deposits contained medieval material. Extensive intercutting post-medieval pits were also revealed. It has the potential to provide limited insight into Biggleswade's past. Medieval and earlier undated deposits are likely to survive in a fragmentary state. The ditches would also appear to be relatively early, when at least part of the site was open. This may suggest that the quarry and associated fills are part of a systematic effort to clear and rebuild the area of the town affected by the Great Fire of 1785.
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Author:		 G Edmondson
I Turner
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Publisher:		 Albion Archaeology
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Other Person/Org:		 Historic England (OASIS Reviewer)
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Year of Publication:		 2010
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Site: 10 Hitchin Street
County: Bedfordshire
District: Central Bedfordshire
Parish: BIGGLESWADE
Country: England
Grid Reference: 518920, 244470 (Easting, Northing)
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POST MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods) CERAMIC (Object England)
MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods) SHERD (Object England)
POST MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods) SHERD (Object England)
UNCERTAIN (Historic England Periods) BOUNDARY DITCH (Monument Type England)
MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods) PIT (Monument Type England)
POST MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods) PIT (Monument Type England)
20TH CENTURY (Historic England Periods) WALL (Monument Type England)
TRIAL TRENCH (Event)
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OASIS Id: albionar1-75832
OBIB: 2010/38
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Created Date:		 22 Mar 2019