Source/Archive record (Unpublished document) SNT5651 - Kirton Quarry, Archaeological Watching Brief: New Best Red Quarry extension July-August 2017
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Kirton Quarry, Archaeological Watching Brief: New Best Red Quarry extension July-August 2017 |
Author/Originator |
Richard Moore |
Date/Year |
2017 |
Abstract/Summary
Monitoring of topsoil stripping on a westward extension to the New Best Red Quarry at Kirton Brickworks, Nottinghamshire, was undertaken in July and August 2017.
This watching brief forms the latest of a series of archaeological works undertaken since 2004. Previous investigations have found limited archaeological evidence including occasional worked flints and sherds of medieval and post-medieval pottery.
No cut features were noted, apart from land drains and recent plough scores. The watching brief covered part of the former Golden Hill Lane. This lane is of some antiquity, but monitoring confirmed that it has been disturbed by modern service trenches and by the build-up of backfilled agricultural materials, and nothing of its earlier existence was noted.
In the previous watching briefs, evidence was noted that ridge and furrow agriculture to the south of Golden Hill Lane did not extend to the north of the lane. The current work confirmed this observation.
Twenty-one unstratified finds were recovered from the topsoil or the stripped surface. An Early Bronze Age flint dagger blade tip was a particularly noteworthy and significant find.
Otherwise, the finds were limited to pottery: twenty sherds of post-medieval or early modern date.
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Description
Results of a watching brief. Report includes finds with GPS location, struck flint archive, and pottery and ceramic building material archive
Location
Referenced Monuments (1)
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MNT28293 Finds from Kirton Brickworks Quarry, Kirton (Element)
Referenced Events (1)
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ENT4983
Watching Brief at Kirton Quarry, Kirton
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