Day, M. (2019). Cottage Farm, Oadby, Leicestershire: Archaeological Evaluation. Cirencester: Cotswold Archaeology. https://doi.org/10.5284/1075581. Cite this using datacite

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Title:		 Cottage Farm, Oadby, Leicestershire: Archaeological Evaluation
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Series:		 Cotswold Archaeology unpublished report series
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Abstract:		 Between April and May 2019, Cotswold Archaeology carried out an archaeological evaluation at Cottage Farm, Oadby, Leicestershire. The evaluation was undertaken to inform an outline planning application for the residential development of the site. The fieldwork comprised the excavation of 60 trenches. Archaeological interest in the site is derived from its location within a landscape rich in early prehistoric findspots. Worked flint of Mesolithic to Bronze Age date has been recovered from fields located to the immediate south-west of the site (LHER No: MLE9270; NGR: SP 627 987) and to the south-east at Beauchamp College (ELE 8634). While excavation and evaluation to the immediate north of the site revealed a ditch containing Middle to Late Iron Age pottery, as well as two similar, but undated, ditches. Previous geophysical survey of the site identified a number of anomalies representing potential archaeological features, comprising curvilinear, linear, circular and discrete anomalies indicative of prehistoric enclosures, house ring gullies, pits, boundary features and furrows. This pattern of enclosures predicted by the geophysical survey was largely confirmed by the evaluation, which identified archaeological features concentrated in the south-western part of the site within two distinct areas. The artefactual evidence recovered during the evaluation suggests that permanent settlement within the southwestern part of the site began during the Middle to Late Iron Age, with evidence for settlement in the form of enclosures, boundary ditches, pits and ring gullies and other settlement features. Features associated with medieval and post-medieval land use were also recorded, including a field boundary ditch containing medieval pottery and the ploughed-out remnants of medieval ridge and furrow, the remains of the open field system that once surrounded the settlement at Oadby, which were encountered across the site.
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Author:		 M Day
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Publisher:		 Cotswold Archaeology
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Other Person/Org:		 Historic England (OASIS Reviewer)
Leicestershire HER (OASIS Reviewer)
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Year of Publication:		 2019
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Site: Land at Cottage Farm
County: Leicestershire
District: Oadby and Wigston
Parish: OADBY
Country: England
Grid Reference: 463087, 298868 (Easting, Northing)
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IRON AGE (Historic England Periods) MAMMAL REMAINS (Object England)
IRON AGE (Historic England Periods) SADDLE QUERN (Object England)
IRON AGE (Historic England Periods) SHERD (Object England)
IRON AGE (Historic England Periods) BOUNDARY DITCH (Monument Type England)
IRON AGE (Historic England Periods) ENCLOSURE (Monument Type England)
IRON AGE (Historic England Periods) PIT (Monument Type England)
MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods) RIDGE AND FURROW (Monument Type England)
IRON AGE (Historic England Periods) RING DITCH (Monument Type England)
IRON AGE (Historic England Periods) ROUND HOUSE (DOMESTIC) (Monument Type England)
TRIAL TRENCH (Event)
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OASIS Id: cotswold2-375810
OBIB: MK0042_1
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Created Date:		 16 Apr 2020