Site Event/Activity record ENT4366 - Langar Lane Colston Bassett Nottinghamshire

Location

Location
Grid reference SK 70660 34430 (point)
Map sheet SK73SW
District Newark
Civil Parish Collingham, Newark

Technique(s)

Organisation

Cotswold Archaeology

Date

Not recorded.

Map

Description

In March 2015, Cotswold Archaeology carried out an archaeological fieldwalking survey on farmland off Langar Lane, Colston Bassett, Nottinghamshire. The survey, which was carried out for DLP (Planning) Ltd on behalf of Kappa Solar Ltd, was undertaken to fulfil a condition attached to planning consent for the construction of a 10MW solar park on the land. The report summarises - The fieldwalking survey, which was carried out over a period of three days, recovered a small assemblage of worked or modified prehistoric flint, Roman, Anglo-Saxon and medieval pottery and post-medieval/modern pottery, roof tile and brick. A small flint core, probably of Neolithic date, provided the only evidence for prehistoric activity within the site. The distribution of Roman pottery, broadly dating from the 1st to the 4th centu-ries AD, largely conformed to a complex of enclosures and ditches in the north-west corner of the site that had been identified by geophysical survey. Pieces of dense, heavy slag, indic-ative of ironworking, were found in the same area, indicating that iron smelting may have been carried out at the settlement during the Roman or subsequent Anglo-Saxon periods. The Anglo-Saxon pottery, which was recovered from the area of the Romano-British settle-ment, dated to the 5th to 7th centuries and adds weight to the claim that the site may have been used as a meeting place in the Anglo-Saxon period. The suggestion was prompted by the old fieldname, ‘Thinghoe Hundred’, which derives from the Anglo-Saxon and Old Norse þyng haugr, meaning ‘hill of assembly’. Later material largely derived from manuring. A desk based assessment and a geophysical survey had taken place prior to the fieldwalking exercise. The Geophysical report had revealed a series of enclosures and crop marks in the Southern part of the site, the report states that these are likely to date from the late Iron age/ Roman period. A series of lettered transects were established within the individual fields using a Leica Smart Rover GPS. Transects were marked out on site using temporary flags, in accordance with CA Technical Manual 4: Survey Manual (2012). Transects were aligned parallel to the longest boundary of the individual field being surveyed and were spaced at 20m intervals (i.e. 25 col-lection units per hectare). Transects were tied in to the OS grid and assigned identifiers (e.g. Transect A, Transect B, etc., in Field 1; Transect A, Transect B, etc., in Field 2; etc.). The fieldwalking team walked the transects and observed 2m-wide corridors centred on each individual transect as a basis for artefact collection. For each field walked, details of land use/field conditions, ground visibility and fieldwalking personnel were recorded on pro-forma sheets. The artefacts and archive from the fieldwalking survey and currently held by Cotswold Ar-chaeology, in their Milton Keynes office.

Sources/Archives (1)

  • <1> Unpublished document: Cotswold Archaeology. Langar Lane Colston Basset Nottinghamshire - Fieldwalking report..

Related Monuments/Buildings (2)

  • Finds recovered from Langar Lane, Colston Bassett, Notts, Archaeological Fieldwalking Survey. (Element)
  • Possible Roman Settlement, Colston Bassett (Monument)

Record last edited

Feb 3 2022 3:35PM

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