Site Event/Activity record ENT5117 - Watching Brief near Cottam Power Station, Rampton

Location

Location Cottam Power Station, Rampton, Nottinghamshire
Grid reference Centred SK 80529 79156 (890m by 1169m) (2 map features)
Map sheet SK87NW
District Bassetlaw
Civil Parish Rampton, Bassetlaw

Technique(s)

Organisation

York Archaeology - Nottingham

Date

Not recorded.

Map

Description

The Site is located to the northeast of the small village of Rampton, approximately 60km to the northeast of Nottingham. The Site is bordered by a mixture of arable and pastoral land to the north, west and south, with Rampton village to the southwest and Cottam Power Station to the east. Archaeological monitoring was undertaken during intrusive groundworks associated with the installation of a new foul water pipe. This involved a topsoil strip of the pipe route, excavation of the pipe trench, reception and drive pits for directional drilling under the drainage ditches and a new manhole at the south-western end of the Site. Archaeological features on the Site were limited to three ditches in the first field, all running east-west, and two ditches running west-east, and one running north-south, in the third field. All ditches contained some percentage of silt in their fills, the remaining component of their fill composition originating from the geological substratum the features were excavated into. Given the lack of inclusions in any ditches, the evidence suggests their fills gradually accumulated over time. Although one ditch’s profile in the first field differs slightly from the other two ditches from the first field, the similarity in fills suggest a similar infilling process for all three. It is possible that they represent drainage ditches. One of the ditches from the third field falls exactly where one would expect an east-west field boundary (L6230) to run through the Site, and the feature is likely to be evidence of post-medieval land division. Another ditch from the third field aligns closely with north-south land division as observed on the Ordnance Survey mapping series covering 1888-1913. A field previously compartmentalised by three north-south divisions, it is likely the ditch forms the western-most north-south division, as seen on the on the 1888-1913 Ordnance Survey map.

Sources/Archives (1)

  • --- Unpublished document: Helen Shenton, Glyn Davies and Eleri Davies. 2023. Land West of Cottam Power Station, Rampton, Nottinghamshire: Report on an Archaeological Watching Brief.

Related Monuments/Buildings (1)

  • Field boundary near Cottam Power Station, Rampton (Element)

Record last edited

Aug 9 2024 2:07PM

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