Mayton Wood Quarry Extension, Buxton with Lammas, Norfolk: An Archaeological Evaluation

Abstract

The Cambridge Archaeological Unit (CAU) was commissioned by Burmor Construction to undertake a trenched evaluation on land East of Church Street and South of Bicker Road, Donington, Lincolnshire (TF 2092 3601) to assess the archaeological potential of the site prior to a proposed development. The evaluation was carried out between the 5th and 7th July 2021, and identified a series of ditches and pits of 10th to 15th century date. The Development Area was evaluated by three trenches totalling 80m in length (at 2.0m wide) in the first instance, which equated to approximately 5% of the 0.34 hectares site. The evaluation indicated limited disturbance to the archaeological levels by the construction of modern drainage on site, but, overall, the potential for archaeological survival was moderate. The additional trench demonstrated that the creation of the new car park did not impact on the underlying deposits and that within the area of the car park archaeological deposits should still survive. All of the archaeological features encountered were medieval in date, from the 10th to 15th centuries. The following sections outline the results from various components of the evaluation, additional works and monitoring including the results from bucket sampling, metal detecting and the trenches themselves