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A watching brief of the construction of a reservoir at Wyken Hall, located a single Roman ditch and an undared Pit.

Evaluation involving desktop survey and trial trenching. Probable preh ditches and med pottery found.

Early Roman features, including pits, postholes, boundary ditches, animal burials, as well as Early Bronze Age cremation and Iron Age pottery.

Evaluation identified the edge of the town ditch and bank, a probable medieval chalk surface that was later buried by material dispersed when the town bank was levelled, a medieval property boundary ditch and wall, possible well, may have been of si...

A desktop and trial trenching evaluation of a 0.38 hectare plot of land revealed limited evidence for prehistoric (Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age) early medieval and post-medieval activity (19th/20 century).

Monitoring of the footing trenches revealed no archaeological features but excavation did not penetrate below the overburdon, a single unstratified sherd of medieval pottery was recovered.

A single, post-medieval posthole was identified in trenches dug for a house conversion. Finds indicated nearby Roman activity, but all soil layers contained post-medieval material.

A fieldwalking and metal detector survey located a low density of pre-modern finds.

Monitoring revealed pits, cess-pits, postholes, layers and surfaces, the earliest features are sealed by 12th-14th century layers and probably relate to the earliest use of the urban plots in this part of town.

Small, domestic type pits of 19th or 20th century date.