Edmondson, G. and Phillips, M. (2017). Land at 52 Park Lane, Blunham, Bedfordshire: Archaeological Evaluation. Bedford: Albion Archaeology. https://doi.org/10.5284/1088246. Cite this using datacite

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Title:		 Land at 52 Park Lane, Blunham, Bedfordshire: Archaeological Evaluation
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Series:		 Albion Archaeology unpublished report series
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Abstract:		 Planning permission was granted by Central Bedfordshire Council for the construction of three new dwellings on land at 52 Park Lane, Blunham, Bedfordshire. Albion Archaeology was commissioned to undertake an initial trial trench evaluation of the site. Trench 1, at the west end of the site contained only modern features. The south-west part of the site had also been reduced in the 20th century to create a level terrace. Trench 2, in the central part of site contained modern yard surfaces and make-up layer, a late 19th-century enclosure wall and two post-medieval pits with a limited artefact assemblage including one sherd of 17th/18th-century pottery Trench 3, at the rear of the existing house contained modern yard surfaces and make-up layers, above a cobbled yard surface and make-up above a post-medieval (c. 18th-19th century) garden soil layer. Trench 4, in the north-east corner of the site, contained modern surfaces and make-up layers, a post-medieval soil layer and a possible well. The upper fills of the possible well contained fragments of plain roof tile and a few sherds of late medieval/early post-medieval pottery, suggesting that the feature went out of use in the 15th or 16th century. The results of the investigation indicate limited potential for the survival of archaeological features pre-dating the later post-medieval and modern use of the site. The modern deposits and those associated with the 18th-19th-century use of the site are of very limited archaeological significance. The possible well indicates some potential for the survival of deeper features cut into the underling geology, but the later activity is likely to have destroyed other, less substantial, contemporary features.
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Author:		 G Edmondson
M Phillips
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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:		 2017
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Site: Land at 52 Park Lane
County: Bedfordshire
District: Central Bedfordshire
Parish: BLUNHAM
Country: England
Grid Reference: 515215, 251075 (Easting, Northing)
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20TH CENTURY (Historic England Periods) SHERD (Object England)
POST MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods) SHERD (Object England)
POST MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods) COBBLED SURFACE (Monus)
POST MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods) PIT (Monument Type England)
20TH CENTURY (Historic England Periods) SHED (Monument Type England)
20TH CENTURY (Historic England Periods) WALL (Monument Type England)
POST MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods) WELL (Monument Type England)
20TH CENTURY (Historic England Periods) YARD (Monument Type England)
YARD (Monument Type England)
TRIAL TRENCH (Event)
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OASIS Id: albionar1-257406
OBIB: 2017/24
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Created Date:		 29 Oct 2021