ENN109739 - West Corby Urban Extension (Phases 2, 3, 5, part Phase 4 and northern access road), 2017 (Trial trench)

{1} A second phase of archaeological field evaluation was carried out in advance of the proposed West Corby Urban Expansion scheme. It concentrated on a block of 16 fields and comprised 187 trenches. The recent work was located in the northern and south-western parts of the application area. The evaluation results have shown that well-preserved archaeological remains are present across the development area. Several core settlement areas, within a network of landscape boundaries and smaller areas of occupation. The iron Age settlement remains were more complex than had been anticipated from the geophysical survey results with several overlapping phases of occupation represented. The pottery retrieved from these features ranged from the mid-late Iron Age to late Iron Age 'Belgic'-style forms dating to cAD 20-60. Activity in the areas located to the north and west of settlement foci consisted of land allotment boundaries, possible isolated roundhouses and burnt pits/hearths all of which were common across the evaluation area although not all were identified through the geophysical survey. [Archived under ENN108443]