Doncaster Local Plan: Archaeological Scoping Assessment Allocation
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Doncaster Local Plan: Archaeological Scoping Assessment Allocation Reference: 250 Area (Ha): 24.465 Allocation Type: Housing NGR (centre): SE 6269 0587 Site Name: Land West of Hatfield Lane Settlement: Armthorpe Allocation Recommendations Archaeological significance of site Unknown Historic landscape significance Negligible Suitability of site for allocation Uncertain archaeological constraint Summary Within site Within buffer zone Scheduled Monument - - Listed Building - - SMR record/event 1 record 1 record/1 event Cropmark/Lidar evidence Yes Yes Cartographic features of interest No Yes Estimated sub-surface disturbance Low n/a www.archeritage.co.uk Page 1 of 3 Doncaster Local Plan: Archaeological Scoping Assessment Allocation Reference: 250 Area (Ha): 24.465 Allocation Type: Housing NGR (centre): SE 6269 0587 Site Name: Land West of Hatfield Lane Settlement: Armthorpe Site assessment Known assets/character: The SMR records one monument within the site, cropmarks of an early Iron Age to Romano British field system, located within the western half of the site. There is one further monument within the buffer zone, to the north of the site, also of an Iron Age to Romano British cropmark. One event is recorded in the buffer, immediately to the west of the site, relating to a gradiometer survey which identified possible linear ditches and pits, perhaps of Iron Age to Roman date, as well as more recent field boundaries and ridge and furrow earthworks. There are no Scheduled Monuments or listed buildings within the site or the buffer zone. The Magnesian Limestone in South and West Yorkshire Aerial Photographic Mapping Project records fragmentary Iron Age to Roman field boundaries within the site. These are recorded intermittently across the site itself, and also extend into the buffer and beyond, where they form a more cohesive brickwork-like pattern, part of a wider Iron Age to Roman agricultural landscape. The Historic Environment Characterisation records the present character of the site and the northern buffer zone as agglomerated fields, where boundary loss between 1967 and 1982 has resulted in fragmentary visibility of former straight edged enclosures, possibly relating to the private enclosure of estate land around Streetthorpe Manor after 1775. Within the buffer zone, the area to the south comprises modern housing. Towards the eastern edge of the buffer zone is a small area of surveyed enclosure, comprising former common land enclosed by Parliamentary award in 1785, which retains partial legibility of former common edges. To the west of the buffer zone are agglomerated fields. The site currently comprises a single field, in arable cultivation. Cartographic/historic land use assessment: The 1854 OS map shows the site as at least three fields with hedge/tree boundaries. The basic shape of the site is recognisable, with the eastern, western and southern boundaries present, although the northern site boundary was not present at this time. A small area of woodland was shown within the central area of the site. By 1981 the northern boundary of the site had been established, with the construction of the A630. Within the buffer zone, the majority of the area comprised fields, with little development in 1854. Hatfield Lane was present to the east of the site, and Shepherd’s House was located to the west. The fields to the south were labelled North Field. By 1893 The Grange had been built to the northwest of the site. By 1938 significant housing development had occurred to the south of the site,. Also within the southern end of the buffer zone at this time was the Northfield Sand and Extraction Quarry. By 1961 the quarry was no longer present and the housing estate to the south had expanded further into the southern area of the buffer zone. By 1981 the A630 had been built to the north of the site. Survival: Historic maps do not depict any development within the site since 1854. Arable cultivation may have caused some truncation of sub-surface deposits, but below the plough zone the potential for the survival of buried archaeological remains is considered to be high. Cropmarks record fragmentary remains of Iron Age to Roman field boundaries across the site, and associated remains not identifiable as cropmarks could also survive. Further investigations: Further archaeological investigation will be required if the site is brought forward for development. Significance: The fragmentary Iron Age to Roman field boundaries recorded on the site are part of a wider agricultural landscape of this date. Associated buried remains could be of Local to Regional significance depending on their extent, nature and condition. www.archeritage.co.uk Page 2 of 3 Doncaster Local Plan: Archaeological Scoping Assessment Aerial Photographs & Lidar Summary: Aerial photographs from 2002 show the site to be largely unchanged from the 1992 OS map. The site comprises a single field in arable use with a small cluster of trees to the west of the centre. A modern housing estates butts up to the southern site boundary, with the modern A630 running along the northern site boundary. Lidar data for the site does not show any earthworks of archaeological origin within the site. The recorded Iron Age to Romano-British field boundaries on the site are not identifiable as earthworks within the Lidar data. Photograph references: Google Earth images 2002, 2003, 2008, 2009, 2015. Lidar data tiles SE6205, SE6206, SE6305 & SE6306 DTM 1m. SE6206/16 NMR 719/026 02-Jul-1974; SE6206/4 DNR 872/28A-29 03-Jul-1976 SMR Record/event Reference Name Details Site? Buffer? ID 01246/01 Cropmarks showing Traces of rectangular field system. Y Iron Age or Romano-British field system, Edenthorpe 02694/01 Iron Age or Iron Age or Romano-British unclassified cropmark Y Romano-British Unclassified Cropmark, Edenthorpe ESY1246 Gradiometer Gradiometer survey on 25 hectares of agricultural land to the Y survey at Grange northeast of Doncaster. Former field boundaries and ridge and Farm, Doncaster furrow earthworks were identified. Also a number of probable pits and ditches of archaeological origin. Several possible pit clusters were identified. SMR Historic Environment Characterisation Reference Name Details Site? Buffer? ID HSY4525 Land between Edenthorpe and Armthorpe, Agglomerated fields Y Y Doncaster HSY4510 Long Sandall Common, Doncaster. Surveyed Enclosure Y (Parliamentary/ Private) HSY4771 Infill housing between the A630 and Planned Estate (Social Housing) Y Edenthorpe, Doncaster HSY5015 Shawwood Primary School, Armthorpe, School Y Doncaster HSY5017 Mansfield Crescent, Armthorpe, Doncaster Planned Estate (Social Housing) Y www.archeritage.co.uk Page 3 of 3 Doncaster Local Plan: Archaeological Scoping Assessment Allocation Reference: 251 Area (Ha): 13.21 Allocation Type: Housing/Employment NGR (centre): SK 4920 9882 Site Name: Hill Top Rd, Denaby Main Settlement: Denaby Allocation Recommendations Archaeological significance of site Unknown Historic landscape significance Negligible Suitability of site for allocation Uncertain archaeological constraint Summary Within site Within buffer zone Scheduled Monument - - Listed Building - - SMR record/event - 2 records Cropmark/Lidar evidence No Yes Cartographic features of interest Yes Yes Estimated sub-surface disturbance Low n/a www.archeritage.co.uk Page 1 of 3 Doncaster Local Plan: Archaeological Scoping Assessment Allocation Reference: 251 Area (Ha): 13.21 Allocation Type: Housing/Employment NGR (centre): SK 4920 9882 Site Name: Hill Top Rd, Denaby Main Settlement: Denaby Site assessment Known assets/character: The SMR does not record any features within the site. Two monuments are recorded in the buffer zone, a Romano-British artefact scatter found in the western area, and post-medieval mine shaft hollows to the southwest. No listed buildings or Scheduled Monuments are recorded within the site or the buffer zone. The Magnesian Limestone in South and West Yorkshire Aerial Photographic Mapping Project recorded earthworks associated with a 20th-century munitions factory in the buffer zone to the northwest of the site, and a group of coal mine shaft hollows to the northwest, west and southwest. Possible ridge and furrow earthworks were recorded within the eastern end of Denaby Wood. The Historic Environment Characterisation records the present character of the site as Modern Agglomerated Fields and Modern Other Industry. The landscape character within the site is mainly large fields produced through the loss of boundaries in the 20th century, with no legibility of former landscapes, whilst a small portion of the north part of the site falls within a modern industrial estate which developed after the closure of Denaby Main Colliery. An explosive works associated with the mine was within this zone from the late 19th to mid-20th century. Within the buffer, the landscape character includes Denaby Wood, possibly ancient woodland, to the west of the site, and an area of Modern Agglomerated Fields created through the clearance of part of the wood in the mid- 20th century. To the south of the site are further Modern Agglomerated Fields with no legibility of the former enclosure landscape, and 20th-century residential development which replaced the late 19th-century mining village. With the exception of the late 19th-century Flameless Explosives Company testing range and a small area of scrub, the site has been in agricultural use since at least 1841. Cartographic/historic land use assessment: No features were shown within the site on Thomas Jefferys’ 1771 map of Yorkshire or Christopher Greenwood’s 1817 map of the county. A single field boundary shown crossing the western part of the site on the 1841 Ordnance Survey map remained extant in 1854, when the remainder of the site had been divided into fields. A land drain crossed the northern part of the site at that date. The Flameless Explosives Company manufactured ‘securite’, for use in mining, in the northern part of the buffer zone in 1884 and the company’s testing range was shown as an excavated area within the site on the 1892 OS map, including a narrow gully that survives within the site.