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Title:

The Frythe, Digswell Hill, Welwyn, Hertfordshire: Archaeological Evaluation

Series:

Heritage Network unpublished report series

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5284/1099519

Publication Type:

Report (in Series)

Abstract:

The development site lies within an Area of Archaeological Significance as defined in the District Local Plan, which notes that a number of Iron Age or Roman cremations have been found at the site, and that it has been associated with the Wilshere family since the 14th century. During the Second World War it housed Station IX, part of the Special Operations Executive. It was considered that the evaluation had the potential to contribute to the further understanding of activity during the Prehistoric, Iron Age, Roman and Medieval periods, but no significant archaeological features or deposits were revealed. A solitary Late Bronze Age/Early Iron Age base sherd, recovered unstratified from the northern end of the site, does provide limited evidence for occupation at this period, however. The 34 evaluation trenches clearly demonstrated the level of modern disturbance that had taken place across the site from the 19th century onwards, with evidence for major landscaping in the form of dumped deposits and make-up layers, construction of buildings in the form of strip footings and concrete hard-standing, and the presence service ducts and intrusive services. This supports the cartographic and documentary evidence, and the evidence from the geotechnical test-pitting programme, illustrated in the earlier Archaeological Impact Assessment. The trial trenching programme has allowed the previously assessed risk that development of the site would encounter archaeological features, deposits and finds to be characterised, and reassessed. On this basis the risk that the development might disturb significant archaeological remains predating the Post-medieval and Modern periods, is considered to be Low.

Author:

G Jones

Publisher:

Heritage Network

Year of Publication:

2012

Locations:

Parish:	Welwyn
District:	Welwyn Hatfield
Country:	England
County:	Hertfordshire

Grid Reference: 522520, 215101 (Easting, Northing)

Subjects / Periods:

BUILDING (Monument Type England)

20TH CENTURY BUILDING (Tag)

BRICK (Object England)

20TH CENTURY BRICK (Tag)

TRIAL TRENCH (Event)

DRAIN (Monument Type England)

20TH CENTURY DRAIN (Tag)

TILE (Object England)

20TH CENTURY TILE (Tag)

20TH CENTURY (Historic England Periods)

Identifiers:

OASIS Id:	heritage1-113121
OBIB:	Report no.705

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Created Date:

24 Aug 2022