Oetgen, J. and Wells, J. (2014). Proposed Relief Road, Arlesey, Bedfordshire: Archaeological Trial Trenching. Bedford: Albion Archaeology. https://doi.org/10.5284/1082190. Cite this using datacite

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Title:		 Proposed Relief Road, Arlesey, Bedfordshire: Archaeological Trial Trenching
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Series:		 Albion Archaeology unpublished report series
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Abstract:		 On behalf of Central Bedfordshire Council, Woods Hardwick Planning Ltd is compiling an Environmental Statement for a planning application to construct a new relief road from High Street, Arlesey, to the A507 Arlesey-Stotfold bypass. The road is contained in the Masterplan for the land allocated for mixed-use development in the Central Bedfordshire Site Allocation DPD (adopted April 2011, Policy MA8). The Central Bedfordshire Council Archaeologist (CBCA) has indicated that a programme of archaeological field evaluation is required . The trenching strategy was informed by the results of a desk-based heritage assessment and a programme of geophysical survey. Seven trenches were excavated along the line of the proposed road in August 2014. The evaluation has demonstrated the survival of the following archaeological remains: a single small early Iron Age pit located near the east end of the road corridor; three undated features, likely to medieval furrows; a post-Enclosure field boundary ditch; an undated ditch on the line of a recorded cropmark (HER1767). The cropmark had been interpreted as a pre-Enclosure trackway and the discovery of the ditch supports this interpretation. The line of the trackway suggests that it may have been a drove road for local movement of livestock between dry pasture and river meadows. The possibility is also considered that it was used for stock movement over longer distances from central Bedfordshire into Hertfordshire and on to the London area. The trackway is, therefore, considered to be of local or potentially of regional significance.
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Author:		 J Oetgen
J Wells
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Publisher:		 Albion Archaeology
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Other Person/Org:		 Historic England (OASIS Reviewer)
Central Bedfordshire HER (OASIS Reviewer)
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Year of Publication:		 2014
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Site: Arlesey Relief Road
County: Bedfordshire
District: Central Bedfordshire
Parish: ARLESEY
Country: England
Grid Reference: 519710, 237000 (Easting, Northing)
Grid Reference: 519110, 236390 (Easting, Northing)
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IRON AGE (Historic England Periods) SHERD (Object England)
POST MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods) TILE (Object England)
MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods) DITCH (Monument Type England)
UNCERTAIN (Historic England Periods) DITCH (Monument Type England)
MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods) FURROWS (Monus)
IRON AGE (Historic England Periods) PIT (Monument Type England)
UNCERTAIN (Historic England Periods) PIT (Monument Type England)
TRIAL TRENCH (Event)
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OASIS Id: albionar1-108370
OBIB: 2014/160
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Created Date:		 22 Oct 2020