Source/Archive record (Report) SLI18518 - Temple Hill Wind Farm, Nr Brandon: Archaeological Evaluation Report

Title Temple Hill Wind Farm, Nr Brandon: Archaeological Evaluation Report
Author/Originator
Date/Year 2013
HER Report no. 5350
Pre-Construct Archaeological Services Ltd 1057

Abstract/Summary

Report on a programme of archaeological evaluation comprising fifteen trial trenches excavated on land at Temple Hill to inform the proposed construction of six wind turbines and associated infrastructure. Dense areas of potential archaeology identified during a prior geophysical survey (see ELI14366) were preserved in situ, and trenching targeted areas due to be directly affected by the proposed development. In the north of the site, three Iron Age ditches were encountered, two of which could be more precisely dated to the Late Iron Age. Also encountered in this area were a possible Middle Bronze Age field boundary and a number of undated ditches and pit/posthole features. To the west, three more possible Bronze Age ditches were revealed, and Roman pottery was recovered from an infilled palaeochannel. Four east-west aligned furrows were also noted. At the southern end of the site, an undated linear and six possible pits were encountered, along with one probable post-Medieval ditch. At the eastern edge of the survey area seven more undated ditches, an undated pit and two Roman (probably 2nd century AD) ditches were encountered.

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Referenced Monuments (8)

  • Iron Age ditches, Temple Hill, Hough-on-the-Hill (Monument)
  • Neolithic Pottery, Temple Hill, Hough-on-the-Hill (Find Spot)
  • Ridge and Furrow, Temple Hill, Hough-on-the-Hill (Monument)
  • Roman ditches, Temple Hill, Hough-on-the-Hill (Monument)
  • Teardrop-shape enclosure, Temple Hill (Monument)
  • Undated ditches, Temple Hill, Hough-on-the-Hill (Monument)
  • Undated features, Temple Hill, Hough-on-the-Hill (Monument)
  • Undated features, Temple Hill, Hough-on-the-Hill (Monument)

Referenced Events (1)

  • Trial trenching on land at Temple Hill, Hough-on-the-Hill

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