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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.

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.

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 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.

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

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

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).

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

Evaluation and excavation identified Iron Age occupation, scattered features of prehistoric, Roman and post-medieval date and peat deposits that started to form in the Mesolithic period.

Monitoring identified an unstratified Iron Age pottery assemblage and a group of undated postholes forming a possible structure .