Site Event/Activity record ENT4802 - Archaeological Evaluation near Newark Road, Sutton in Ashfield
Location
Location | Land off Newark Road, Sutton in Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, NG17 5JQ |
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Grid reference | Centred SK 51666 58214 (557m by 752m) |
Map sheet | SK55NW |
District | Ashfield |
Civil Parish | Sutton in Ashfield, Ashfield |
Technique(s)
Organisation
PCAS Archaeology
Date
Not recorded.
Description
The Site lies on the southeast periphery of the town of Sutton in Ashfield, south of the A38 / A617 junction of the town ring road. It consists of c. 21.4 hectares of agricultural land lying south of the junction of the B6022 Newark Road and the B6139 CoxmoorRoad, with the residential estate of Searby Road to the west, a part of the Round Hill estate.
The evaluation comprised thirty 50m x 2m trenches.
Evaluation has confirmed the negative archaeological potential for the majority of the site; all of the southwest field is devoid of any buried features, as is the majority of the larger east field.
There are only a few exceptions to this; a furrow, a pit(both at the north end of the large eastern field) and a ditch / furrow.
The shallow feature is interpreted as a probable furrow. It lies on the same alignment as the linear striations recorded on the geophysical survey, and has a profile typical of such features. This may have been a slightly deeper furrow than others in the area as no other probable furrows were identified in the evaluation. The lack of subsoil across the site may have contributed to this; the topsoil in the trench was up to 0.50m deep and the thickest recorded across the trenches, which may have afforded some protection to the buried feature here. It seems likely that the magnetic anomalies of ridge and furrow recorded across the rest of this field are the shadows of ploughed out features.
The pit is undated. It lies close to the later post-medieval sand pit that lay to the north, but other than proximity there is nothing to suggest a contemporary relationship.
Another trench revealed a second linear feature. This was on a different alignment to the furrows and had a sharper profile, but it does roughly correspond with the magnetic anomaly of a furrow and therefore might be another such feature.
Sources/Archives (1)
- --- SNT5481 Unpublished document: A. Lane. 2023. Evaluation at Land off Newark Road, Sutton in Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, NG17 5JQ.
Related Monuments/Buildings (1)
- MNT27984 Pit near Newark Road, Sutton in Ashfield (Element)
Record last edited
Dec 19 2023 2:43PM