NHER 62539 (Monument record) - Post-medieval and undated ditches and discrete features

2016. Geophysical Survey.
Magnetometer survey of proposed development area.
This survey revealed little in the way of evidence for archaeologically significant remains.
Report awaited.
P. Watkins (HES), 5 February 2018.

February 2017. Trial Trenching.
Evaluation of proposed development area.
This work revealed a dispersed scatter of archaeological features, comprising ditches, gullies and a small number of possible pits and post-holes. Dating evidence was virtually absent, with finds limited to two prehistoric flint flakes and two fragments of unidentifiable metalwork. It does however appear that most, if not all of the excavated linear features are of relatively recent date. A number of the ditches appear to correspond with former field boundaries marked on 19th-century maps and several others clearly mark the line of a later boundary visible on 20th-century Ordnance Survey maps. The remaining linear features remain undated, although their alignments suggest there are associated with fairly recent subdivisions of the field. The majority of the excavated discrete features lay in close proximity to the post-medieval and modern boundaries suggesting that most were probably the remains of associated fencing.
See report (S1) for further details.
P. Watkins (HES), 5 February 2018.