Clutterbuck, J. (2017). Aldi, Weyhill Road, Andover, Hampshire: Archaeological Watching Brief and Excavation. Cirencester: Cotswold Archaeology. https://doi.org/10.5284/1055398. Cite this using datacite

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Title:		 Aldi, Weyhill Road, Andover, Hampshire: Archaeological Watching Brief and Excavation
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Series:		 Cotswold Archaeology unpublished report series
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Abstract:		 An archaeological watching brief and excavation were undertaken by Cotswold Archaeology between April and September 2016, at the site of a new Aldi store at 278 Weyhill Road, Andover, Hampshire. A small number of features were recorded of Late Iron Age and probable Roman-British date, which demonstrates the use of the area in those times. More significant, was the presence of the graves of some 124 individuals of Saxon and medieval date and of the disarticulated remains of approximately another 35 individuals. Artefactual evidence from the site was very limited, as was any paleo-environmental evidence. Analysis of the human remains has shown them to be overwhelmingly those of younger males, and their bodies and the burial rights employed, exhibited a number of characteristics that have been used to define Late Saxon judicial punishment cemeteries. Most unusually, the initial results of a programme of radiocarbon dating suggest that the cemetery was in use from the Middle Saxon to the medieval period (8th to the 14th centuries cal AD). A programme of additional scientific analysis (further radiocarbon dating and stable isotope analysis of human remains) is continuing. The results from the investigations of Weyhill Cemetery are of national and regional significance and merit publication. As a recently excavated Late Saxon punishment cemetery with moderately good preservation and a substantial number of inhumation burials, it is a regionally significant site adding to the corpus of knowledge from other such sites in the region. The apparent longevity of use of the site extending from before, to considerably after the Norman Conquest, makes it rare and of national significance. The results of the programme of scientific investigations will add considerably to its significance. Once the analysis is complete, the full report will be published as a Cotswold Archaeology Monograph.
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Author:		 J. Clutterbuck
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Publisher:		 Cotswold Archaeology
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Year of Publication:		 2017
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Site: Aldi, Weyhill Road
County: Hampshire
District: Test Valley
Parish: ANDOVER
Country: England
Grid Reference: 434115, 145870 (Easting, Northing)
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EARLY MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods) BUCKLE (Object England)
EARLY MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods) COIN (Object England)
EARLY MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods) HUMAN REMAINS (Object England)
EARLY MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods) INHUMATION CEMETERY (Monument Type England)
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WATCHING BRIEF (Event)
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OASIS Id: cotswold2-305828
OBIB: 17171
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Created Date:		 16 Aug 2019