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Outside Roman London: Roadside burials by the Walbrook stream
No full textExcavations at Crossrail’s Broadgate ticket hall at Liverpool Street provided archaeological evidence for an area outside Roman London’s northern defences, a landscape dominated by a former tributary of the Walbrook stream. Drainage features were succeeded by an early 2nd- to 3rd-century AD road running west from Ermine Street towards the fort in the north-west corner of the town. To the south of the road, seven 2nd-century AD inhumation burials, including three decapitations, and one cremation burial formed part of a burial ground in this waterlogged area, where evidence of flooding suggested an explanation for the accompanying disarticulated human bone. This book is one of two exploring the archaeological research for Crossrail at Liverpool Street. Explore the site's findings further in The New Churchyard: from Moorfields marsh to Bethlem burial ground, Brokers Row and Liverpool Street. The Crossrail archive for Liverpool Street is available online, as is The Roman small finds, glass and leather (Michael Marshall 2018)
Watling Street, ARC WS 98
No full textExcavation of five trenches totalling 190 sq m at intervals along a 1km stretch of a modern road, Watling Street, Cobham, west of Rochester, Kent, in 1998, was commissioned by Union Railways (South) Limited and carried out by the Museum of London Archaeology Service. A post-medieval park pale or substantial ha-ha was found. Very scant remains of buildings were found, documented as dog kennels (later poultry yards) erected at the time of landscaping of Cobham Park by Humphrey Repton c 1790. There was no obvious sign of any road earlier than the existing road
Westenhanger Castle (North Of), ARC WGC 97
No full textAs part of a programme of archaeological investigations along the route of the Channel Tunnel Rail Link, Union Railways Limited (URL) commissioned the Museum of London Archaeology Service (MoLAS) to undertake an evaluation comprising seventeen trenches situated in c.5ha. of land 4km to the north-west of the centre of Hythe, Kent. The area of investigation was bounded by the M20 motorway to the north and by the existing London to Folkestone Railway to the south. Open farmland lay to both the east and the west of the evaluated area. Medieval features were located towards the eastern end of the site. Much of the western half of the site was on a shallow west facing slope and contained no archaeology
Church Road (West of), Singlewell, ARC CRS 98
No full textAs part of a larger programme of archaeological investigation along the route of the Channel Tunnel Rail Link, Union Railways (South) Limited (URS) commissioned the Museum of London Archaeology Service (MoLAS) to undertake an archaeological excavation west of Church Road, Singlewell, Kent, in 1998 (site code ARC CRS 98). The site was field-walked in 1993 and evaluation trenches were opened in 1997. A single trench was excavated 380m long and 20m wide, parallel to and about 150m to the south of the A2. The excavation revealed several small pits or postholes and ditches. One pit and one ditch contained burnt unworked flint and possibly medieval pottery. The ditches and two possible marlpits suggest that the land was cultivated and enclosed, presumably at any date from the prehistoric onwards, although specific dating was lacking. No specific evidence for Anglo-Saxon occupation was found
Beechbrook Wood (South Of), ARC BWD 97
No full textAs part of a programme of archaeological investigations along the route of the Channel Tunnel Rail Link, Union Railways Limited (URL) commissioned the Museum of London Archaeology Service (MoLAS) to undertake an evaluation of eight trial trenches situated south of Beechbrook Wood. The site was 3.5km to the north-west of the centre of Ashford, Kent and was bounded by the A20 immediately to the south, Beechbrook Wood to the North and farmland to the east and west
Yonsea Farm, ARC YFM 97
No full textAs part of a programme of archaeological investigations along the route of the Channel Tunnel Rail Link, Union Railways Limited (URL) commissioned the Museum of London Archaeology Service (MoLAS) to undertake an evaluation of six trial trenches situated at Yonsea Farm. The farm is 3.5km to the north-west of the centre of Ashford, Kent and is bounded by the A20 immediately to the north and farmland to the west, south and east. Yonsea Farm consists of a large house, byres and cowsheds, an oast house, a tollhouse and associated gardens. The farm was probably constructed as a single phase in the 1830s. Immediately to the south of this complex a walled garden is bounded to the east and south by a pond which apparently occupies part of an earlier ditch or possible 'moat'. A fairly substantial depression headed westwards along the south side of the garden and appeared to have been a continuation of this feature. The existence of an earlier moated site, predating the 19th century farm, was therefore thought possible
Tollgate (West of) ARC TGW 97
No full textAs part of an extensive programme of environmental mitigation measures associated with the construction of the Channel Tunnel Rail Link, a series of archaeological investigations have been commissioned by Union Railways Limited (URL). The Museum of London Archaeology Service (MoLAS) has undertaken a number of these archaeological field evaluations along the route of the rail link. The site, Area of Neolithic Potential West of Tollgate, covered an area of 9.3 ha across the slopes of a dry valley, under arable crop at the time of the evaluation. It lies some 4km to the south of Gravesend, immediately to the south of the A2 and west of the A227. A Neolithic polished stone axe was picked up in the area in 1929 and a recent surface find collection survey and geophysical survey have identified the north-western area of the site as having potential for Romano-British cut features
Northumberland Bottom, Gravesend, Kent - Integrated Site Report
No full textAs part of an extensive programme of archaeological investigations carried out in advance of the construction of the Channel Tunnel Rail Link (CTRL), the Museum of London Archaeology Service was commissioned to undertake archaeological recording to the west of Northumberland Bottom, Southfleet, in Kent. The excavation areas lie c.1.5 km to the south-east of the Roman| 'small town' at Springhead. The site lies alongside the A2 (Watling Street) between Hazells Farm and Wrotham Road, and is 1.75 km long (OS NGR 562536 171753 to 564123 171006). The investigations were carried out between June 1998 and May 2000, under the project management of Rail Link Engineering, on behalf of Union Railways (South) Limited (a subsidiary of London and Continental Railways Limited)
