Site Event/Activity record ECH7308 - Land South-West of Radway Green Business Park, Crewe, Cheshire: Post-excavation Assessment and Updated Project Design

Following a programme of archaeological assessment and mitigation (see ECH7177, DBA; ECH7067, geophysical survey; ECH7176, evaluation trenching), a post excavation assessment has been produced for land to the south-west of Radway Green Business Park. The assessment includes recommendations for further analysis and proposals for publication of the results. The evaluation trenches recorded Roman features/deposits including two boundary ditches/enclosure and 14 pits (of which 12 formed a cluster). Pottery recovered indicates a 2nd century AD date. A quern fragment and environmental samples provide evidence of crop processing activity. Environmental evidence indicates that the features were associated with settlement activity and that the local environment comprised wet/rough grassland and woodland. Also, two post-medieval boundary ditches were exposed in the north of the excavation area, which appeared to respect the Romano-British enclosure, suggesting that its boundaries were visible in the landscape when the post-medieval boundaries were established. The boundaries are not depicted on 19th-century mapping and presumably pre-date these maps. A single further ditch remains undated. (1)