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We have just completed excavations at our site on the Wear Industrial Estate in Washington, Tyne and Wear. The site lies north of the site of Harraton Colliery, which was potentially in operation as early as c. 1590, while the site itself lay within an area – generally known from the post-medieval period as 'Harraton Outside'- that was dotted with outlying coal workings and criss-crossed by numerous waggonways transporting coal to staithes at Fatfield on the Wear. To read more about this report follow this link: Washington Waggonways


PRE-CONSTRUCT ARCHAEOLOGY LAUNCHES NEW OFFICE

Flying in the face of current economic indicators Pre-Construct Archaeology Ltd has expanded its capabilities across the UK and is delighted to announce the opening of its third office. Click here for further info.

In addition to well established and successful London and Durham offices, our new office will be in Sawston Cambridgeshire. The new office is to be known as PCA South Central and will provide a wide range of professional services to the surrounding counties.


PCA publishes new Monograph !

PCA Monograph 9 On the Boundaries of Occupation: Excavations at Burringham Road, Scunthorpe and Baldwin Avenue, Bottesford, North Lincolnshire
By Peter Boyer, Jennifer Proctor and Robin Taylor-Wilson
Pre-Construct Archaeology Limited, Monograph No. 9

The southern suburbs of the modern industrial town of Scunthorpe perhaps seem an unlikely location for an important archaeological record stretching back into prehistory. Nevertheless this is precisely what was revealed by two archaeological investigations at Burringham Road and Baldwin Avenue, Bottesford, in an area that was, until the mid 19th century, a rural landscape with a scatter of villages overlooking the River Trent and its tributary, Bottesford Beck.
That humans were active in this area in prehistory is demonstrated by flint tools at both sites. By the Late Iron Age, the Burringham Road site probably lay at the southern limit of a settlement, while for much of the Roman occupation it was utilised for various purposes, mostly agriculture-related and including several ‘corn-driers’, these indicative of the crucial activity of grain processing. The Roman evidence raises the intriguing possibility that a settlement of that period - possibly a ‘villa’ - lay close by.
It was in the Middle Saxon period that a settlement lay close to the Baldwin Avenue site, this situated close to Bottesford Beck. Amongst artefacts recovered there are the remains of three large Saxon lead vessels, probably dumped as scrap metal for later retrieval, which have provided a wonderful opportunity for an unusual and fascinating body of archaeological ‘post-excavation’ analysis.
‘On the Boundaries of Occupation’, price £14.95 is available from direct from Pre-Construct Archaeology or Oxbow Books www.oxbowbooks.com

 

King’s Cross Central: Eastern Goods Yard

Turntable A after excavationA programme of archaeological watching brief and excavation was carried out by Pre-Construct Archaeology Ltd at the Eastern Goods Yard, King’s Cross Central. The site was located to the north of King’s Cross Station and comprised a fine example of a near-complete 19th century railway Goods Yard. The site is to be converted for use as a University, and will also have shops, commercial and residential areas. Much of the site lies within a Conservation Area and many of the buildings are listed. See more of this article here.

Links: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7773690.stm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/london/content/articles/2008/09/26/richard_meier_feature.shtml

 

 

 

Romano-British pottery from Drapers’ Gardens

The excavations at Drapers’ Gardens produced a vast quantity of Romano-British pottery. Almost 45,000 sherds were recovered weighing 1.57tonnes and the process of identifying, dating and quantifying these sherds has just been completed, although analysis of the data is still in its very early stages. See more pictures of the Roman pottery here.


 

 
 
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