17-23 Woodbines Avenue;
TQ 1788 6856; (Jim Leary); evaluation; 1-7 September 2000; CgMs Consulting on behalf of Laing Homes; WDB00
Three trenches were excavated across the site. Natural silty clay overlying alluvially deposited clay was recorded at 7.87m OD. The two trenches to the north of the site showed a number of stakeholes and possible postholes cut into the natural layers, these have been interpreted as being of a prehistoric date, since they were overlain by a possible prehistoric plough soil, containing burnt flint, and which may have truncated a large proportion of the earlier features. Residual flint from later contexts suggests a Bronze Age Date.
Evidence of Roman activity came from residual pottery within the Saxon plough soil., which was observed in all three trenches. The plough soil contained large quantities of burnt flint as well as struck flint, and Roman and Saxon pottery.
The Saxon plough soil was, in turn, overlain by 18th and 19th century ground raising deposits.
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