Parker, L. (2021). We Dig Wollaton Park: A Training Excavation at Wollaton Park, Nottingham. Report on an Archaeological Evaluation. Nottingham: Trent & Peak Archaeology. https://doi.org/10.5284/1084312. Cite this using datacite

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Title:		 We Dig Wollaton Park: A Training Excavation at Wollaton Park, Nottingham. Report on an Archaeological Evaluation
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Series:		 Trent & Peak Archaeology unpublished report series
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Abstract:		 A training excavation within the grounds of Wollaton park. The aims were: To elucidate the 17th-19th century layout of Wollaton Park's gardens and external buildings, test preservation and to recover details of their form, character and function. To provide evidence of the earliest layout of the gardens devised by Smythson. To recover information about the spatial patterning of features present on the site. Based on a geophysical survey completed by Northamptonshire Archaeological Services, an 'H' shaped excavation, approximately 123m², was used to investigate the presence, form and character of an Orangery visible in the foreground of Jan Siberechts painting from 1697, on a lower terrace to the east of Wollaton Hall. The excavations revealed the edge of a terrace cut into the sandstone bedrock, measuring 1.7m at its deepest point. It was filled by a number of tipped deposits, with the majority of material consisting of rubble-filled pink orange sand. The terrace edge could possibly relate to the sunken terrace onto which the Orangery is shown in the painting from 1697. The terrace could have been filled in and covered over when the Ha-Ha to the north-east of the site was built in the 1780's. A number of garden features dating to the 17th and 18th centuries were uncovered, including a possible brick plinth for a statue. Finds included a high amount of post medieval brick rubble from a demolished building, clay pipes and a small number of post medieval and modern pottery fragments. If the remains of the Orangery are still intact, they are likely to be further to the north east of the excavations.
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Author:		 Laura Parker
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Publisher:		 Trent & Peak Archaeology
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Other Person/Org:		 Historic England (OASIS Reviewer)
Nottingham City HER (OASIS Reviewer)
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Year of Publication:		 2021
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Site: Wollaton Park, Wollaton
County: Nottinghamshire
District: Nottingham
Parish: NOTTINGHAM
Country: England
Grid Reference: 463378, 344588 (Easting, Northing)
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POST MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods) ALABASTER (Find)
POST MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods) BRICK (Object England)
POST MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods) CLAY PIPE (SMOKING) (Object England)
POST MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods) SHERD (Object England)
POST MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods) HOUSE (Monument Type England)
EXCAVATION (Event)
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Created Date:		 16 Feb 2021