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Title:

Archaeological excavation at land south of Westham Lane, Barford, Warwickshire

Series:

Worcestershire Archaeology unpublished report series

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5284/1103270

Publication Type:

Report (in Series)

Abstract:

An archaeological excavation was undertaken at land south of Westham Lane, Barford, Warwickshire (NGR 426845 260341). It was commissioned by Wardell Armstrong on behalf of Taylor Wimpey Midlands, in advance of the construction of residential properties. A planning application has been submitted. The proposed development site is roughly L-shaped although this excavation report only focuses on the western, larger half of the site. This was evaluated by Wardell Armstrong, who identified numerous prehistoric features suggesting settlement remains were spread across the entire site area. The following excavation consisted of two trenches, targeted on those remains, including a subrectangular main excavation area of approximately 8000m2 and a smaller trench covering 172m2. The excavation established that the archaeological remains were not as widespread as the evaluation had suggested, although considerable prehistoric activity was still identified across the southern half of the site. The earliest structural evidence included a Late Neolithic pit, containing Grooved Ware pottery some of which has more affinity with Orcadian (viz from the Orkneys) assemblages than regional ones. The main period of activity at the site spanned the Late Bronze Age to Middle Iron Age and, although no settlement structures were found, the site was dominated by grain storage pits and two large landscape boundaries. It could not be ruled out that domestic roundhouses had been present (the pit groups left possible spaces for this), but, if so, they had been constructed in a way where this could not be proven archaeologically. The site then appears to have been abandoned from the Late Iron Age until the Late Roman period, when a rare type of mortuary enclosure was constructed for the interment of two bodies.

Author:

A Mann

Publisher:

Worcestershire Archaeology

Year of Publication:

2020

Locations:

District:	Warwick
Country:	England
County:	Warwickshire
Parish:	Barford

Grid Reference: 426799, 260299 (Easting, Northing)

Subjects / Periods:

PIT (Monument Type England)

LATE NEOLITHIC PIT (Tag)

PIT (Monument Type England)

MIDDLE IRON AGE PIT (Tag)

DITCH (Monument Type England)

MIDDLE IRON AGE DITCH (Tag)

MORTUARY ENCLOSURE (Monument Type England)

ROMAN MORTUARY ENCLOSURE (Tag)

DITCH (Monument Type England)

EARLY IRON AGE DITCH (Tag)

PIT (Monument Type England)

LATE BRONZE AGE PIT (Tag)

PIT (Monument Type England)

EARLY IRON AGE PIT (Tag)

CEREAL GRAIN (Object England)

LATE NEOLITHIC CEREAL GRAIN (Tag)

CEREAL GRAIN (Object England)

BRONZE AGE CEREAL GRAIN (Tag)

CEREAL GRAIN (Object England)

IRON AGE CEREAL GRAIN (Tag)

SEEDS (Object England)

POST MEDIEVAL SEEDS (Tag)

CEREAL GRAIN (Object England)

ROMAN CEREAL GRAIN (Tag)

HUMAN REMAINS (Object England)

ROMAN HUMAN REMAINS (Tag)

SEEDS (Object England)

IRON AGE SEEDS (Tag)

EXCAVATION (Event)

LATE NEOLITHIC (Historic England Periods)

IRON AGE (Historic England Periods)

LATE BRONZE AGE (Historic England Periods)

BRONZE AGE (Historic England Periods)

ROMAN (Historic England Periods)

MIDDLE IRON AGE (Historic England Periods)

POST MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods)

EARLY IRON AGE (Historic England Periods)

Identifiers:

OASIS Id:	fieldsec1-372218
OBIB:	WA report number: 2546

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Created Date:

20 Feb 2023