Barker, J. and Leslie, I. (2017). Magna Park Extension: DHL Supply Chain, Lutterworth, Leicestershire: Archaeological Excavation Final Report. Bedford: Albion Archaeology. https://doi.org/10.5284/1056986. Cite this using datacite

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Title:		 Magna Park Extension: DHL Supply Chain, Lutterworth, Leicestershire: Archaeological Excavation Final Report
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Series:		 Albion Archaeology unpublished report series
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Publication Type:		 Report (in Series)
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Abstract:		 During September and October 2016 Albion Archaeology carried out archaeological open-area excavations in advance of an extension for DHL to Magna Park, Lutterworth, Leicestershire. It is an irregularly shaped plot of land, , bordered by Mere Road and Magna Park to the south-east, Watling Street (A5) to the south-west and field boundaries and outlying fields to the north-west and north-east. This report presents the results of the investigations. The archaeological investigations revealed several phases of past human activity. The earliest is represented by the residual find of a flint core fragment of later Neolithic to Bronze Age date, although no cut features from this period were present. Dispersed early-middle Iron Age activity was identified, which included two extensive linear boundaries and at least one small settlement. The Roman period was represented by field systems and an activity focus adjacent to Watling Street. Further away from Watling Street was evidence of activity on the periphery of a settlement previously identified outside of the development area. Evidence was also identified for medieval open fields, which covered much of the development area in this period, as well as a single post-medieval ditch. Even in the case of the two best-represented phases of activity (early-middle Iron Age and Roman) the small scale of the settlement evidence and the spatially distant nature of the remains within the development area mean that the picture offered is rather fragmented. Nonetheless the Iron Age evidence appears to show a landscape that was crossed by at least two extensive linear boundaries, along which small-scale, localised settlement was clustered. The evidence for the Roman period is dominated by ditches associated with field systems which, curiously, are not aligned perpendicular to Watling Street (and so could predate it).
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Author:		 Joanne Barker
I Leslie
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Publisher:		 Albion Archaeology
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Other Person/Org:		 Historic England (OASIS Reviewer)
Leicestershire HER (OASIS Reviewer)
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Year of Publication:		 2017
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Site: MAGNA PARK EXTENSION: DHL SUPPLY CHAIN
County: Leicestershire
District: Harborough
Parish: LUTTERWORTH
Country: England
Grid Reference: 450760, 285500 (Easting, Northing)
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LATE IRON AGE (Historic England Periods) BEEHIVE QUERN (Object England)
MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods) COIN (Object England)
ROMAN (Historic England Periods) COIN (Object England)
MIDDLE IRON AGE (Historic England Periods) MAMMAL REMAINS (Object England)
ROMAN (Historic England Periods) MAMMAL REMAINS (Object England)
ROMAN (Historic England Periods) PLATE BROOCH (Object England)
ROMAN (Historic England Periods) POST HOLE (Find)
MIDDLE IRON AGE (Historic England Periods) SHERD (Object England)
ROMAN (Historic England Periods) SHERD (Object England)
MIDDLE IRON AGE (Historic England Periods) BOUNDARY DITCH (Monument Type England)
MIDDLE IRON AGE (Historic England Periods) DITCH (Monument Type England)
ROMAN (Historic England Periods) DITCH (Monument Type England)
MIDDLE IRON AGE (Historic England Periods) ENCLOSURE (Monument Type England)
POST MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods) FIELD BOUNDARY (Monument Type England)
ROMAN (Historic England Periods) PIT (Monument Type England)
MIDDLE IRON AGE (Historic England Periods) POST HOLE (Monument Type England)
MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods) RIDGE AND FURROW (Monument Type England)
MIDDLE IRON AGE (Historic England Periods) ROUND HOUSE (DOMESTIC) (Monument Type England)
ROMAN (Historic England Periods) TRACKWAY (Monument Type England)
EXCAVATION (Event)
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OASIS Id: albionar1-326953
OBIB: 2017/119
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Created Date:		 11 Oct 2019