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Site 17A Grovebury Farm, Grovebury Road, Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire: Assessment of Potential and Updated Project Design |
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Albion Archaeology unpublished report series
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Abstract: |
Between June and July 2013 Albion Archaeology undertook an open area archaeological investigation at Site 17a Grovebury Farm, Leighton Buzzard, ahead of a residential development The earliest archaeological remains comprised residual flint artefacts dating to the late Neolithic to early Bronze Age, including an oblique arrowhead. The earliest phase of activity within the site dated to the late Bronze Age/early Iron Age. It comprised several irregular field boundaries and associated clusters of pits and postholes. It is suggested that the area of investigation was largely peripheral to a contemporary farmstead, located further north. By the early-middle Iron Age the area of investigation was more heavily exploited and the site contained a greater number of ditches, pits and postholes, in addition to a water pit, an animal burial and two human graves. The recorded evidence represents traces of agricultural and limited domestic activity on the perimeter of a nearby farmstead Evidence for activity dated to the early Roman period covered more than 90% of the excavation area and extended beyond its limits. It comprised eleven separate arrays (fields) of bedding trenches and associated features. All of the fields are likely to have been broadly contemporary and it is one of the largest areas of bedding trenches identified within Bedfordshire. The fields are likely to have been located some distance from a settlement focus as only four sherds (49g) of Roman pottery were recovered from this phase. Evidence for activity in the later Roman period was very limited. It comprised a single cremation burial and two isolated ditches. It is likely that there was little significant activity within the site between the middle of the 2nd century AD and modern times, despite its proximity to the Theedway, an ancient routeway which bounds the northern limit of the site. |
Author: |
B Barker
J Wells
Marcin Koziminski
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Albion Archaeology
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Historic England (OASIS Reviewer)
Central Bedfordshire HER (OASIS Reviewer)
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Year of Publication: |
2014
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Site 17A Grovebury Farm, Leighton Buzzard |
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Bedfordshire |
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Central Bedfordshire |
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LEIGHTON LINSLADE |
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England |
Grid Reference: 492590, 223540 (Easting, Northing)
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albionar1-154097 |
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2014/123 |
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30 Apr 2020 |