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Title:

Archaeological trial excavations at the Outgang Extension to Newport Road Quarry, North Cave, East Riding of Yorkshire

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Humber Field Archaeology unpublished report series

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https://doi.org/10.5284/1093506

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Abstract:

The trial trenching comprised the excavation and recording of ten linear trenches each measuring approximately 30m x 2m in plan (Fig. 2). The positions were proposed in the site-specific WSI in order to target specific anomalies with archaeological potential detected by the earlier geophysical survey. The trenches were excavated using a mechanical excavator fitted with a wide, smooth-bladed bucket, working under direct archaeological supervision. The trenches were excavated down to the first significant archaeological horizon and then hand-cleaned prior to any archaeological features being investigated and examined through hand excavation. For reasons of expediency, the mechanical excavator was subsequently employed under close supervision in order to machine-excavate some larger features down to a level which would enable subsequent hand-cleaning and recording. Standard Humber Field Archaeology recording procedures were used throughout; each identified feature was allocated a context number, with written descriptions recorded on pro forma sheets. Plans and sections were drawn to scale on pre-printed permatrace sheets. A photographic record was maintained using a high-resolution digital camera. The locations of the trenches and the level of the features were surveyed relative to the Ordnance Survey National Grid and Ordnance Datum respectively, using survey-grade GPS equipment. Finds encountered were recorded to professional standards using recognised procedures and numbering systems compatible with the accessioning system employed by the recipient museums service (in this case the East Riding of Yorkshire Museums Service). Finds recovered from each feature were labelled accordingly, with those of individual interest, other than pottery or animal bone, being allocated Recorded Find (RF) numbers. One environmental soil sample was taken from a targeted feature for its environmental potential. In June 2021, archaeological evaluation by trial excavation was undertaken by Humber Field Archaeology in the Outgang extension of the Newport Road Quarry, a site of permitted extraction of sand and gravel by Breedon (Northern) Ltd, which lies south-west of North Cave village, East Riding of Yorkshire. Ten 30m long trenches were excavated in the north-western corner of the extraction area in order to investigate a number of anomalies representing potential archaeological remains, revealed by an earlier geophysical survey, (Roseveare and Smith, Sept 2019). All ten trenches excavated contained archaeological features of likely Roman date, the majority considered to be segments of linear enclosures and sub-divisions. These features were observed and recorded across the evaluation cut into the underlying exposed sand and chalk gravel natural substrate which lay beneath a thick layer of subsoil up to 0.35m thick. The subsoil layer was subsequently sealed by a 0.30m thick uniform layer of plough soil containing a standing crop of wheat. Trench 3 contained a large circular pit and a truncated crouched human inhumation. Trench 8 contained a double-ditched east to west orientated trackway. Trenches 3, 4 and 5 contained a number of small, isolated pit or posthole features. Artefactual evidence indicating domestic settlement was recovered from the fills of various features in Trenches 4, 7 and 8, however no features definitively indicating the existence of domestic structures were observed. The potential for the discovery of archaeological remains had been high due to the presumption that ditched features previously recorded in areas immediately to the north and west continued into this evaluation area. The geophysical survey preceding this evaluation confirmed this, however the 10 evaluation trenches showed that these features extended further than predicted and were higher in number.

Author:

Stephen K Kennedy

Publisher:

Humber Field Archaeology

Year of Publication:

2021

Locations:

Parish:	North Cave
County:	East Riding of Yorkshire
District:	East Riding of Yorkshire
Country:	England

Grid Reference: 489008, 431119 (Easting, Northing)

Subjects / Periods:

EVALUATION (Event)

DITCHED ENCLOSURE (Monument Type England)

ROMAN DITCHED ENCLOSURE (Tag)

PIT (Monument Type England)

ROMAN PIT (Tag)

CROUCHED INHUMATION (Monument Type England)

ROMAN CROUCHED INHUMATION (Tag)

POT (Object England)

ROMAN POT (Tag)

ANIMAL REMAINS (Object England)

ROMAN ANIMAL REMAINS (Tag)

SLAG (Object England)

ROMAN SLAG (Tag)

COIN (Object England)

ROMAN COIN (Tag)

QUERN (Object England)

ROMAN QUERN (Tag)

ROMAN (Historic England Periods)

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humberfi2-503552

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Created Date:

24 May 2022