Doncaster Local Plan: Archaeological Scoping Assessment Allocation Reference: 950 Area (Ha): 0.139 Allocation Type: Housing NGR (centre): SK 65386 93458 Site Name: Station Hotel, 93 Station Road, Bawtry Settlement: Bawtry 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 event Cropmark/Lidar evidence No No Cartographic features of interest Yes Yes Estimated sub-surface disturbance Partial n/a www.archeritage.co.uk Page 1 of 4 Doncaster Local Plan: Archaeological Scoping Assessment Allocation Reference: 950 Area (Ha): 0.139 Allocation Type: Housing NGR (centre): SK 65386 93458 Site Name: Station Hotel, 93 Station Road, Bawtry Settlement: Bawtry Site assessment Known assets/character: The SMR does not record any monuments, findspots or events within the site. There is one monument and one event within the eastern edge of the buffer, both referring to the recovery of a substantial quantity of Roman pottery and coins during a watching brief on wetland improvements to the west of the River idle. An associated column base indicated that a structure had been located at the site. The types of pottery represented suggested the structure had a religious function, possibly a shrine or temple, but subsequent geophysical survey did not identify any anomalies. There are no Scheduled Monuments, listed buildings or registered parks within the site or buffer. The National Mapping Programme aerial mapping project did not record any features within the site or buffer, though cropmarks of probable Iron Age to Roman field systems were recorded just to the north. Historic Environment Characterisations records the present character of the site as part of an area of early 20th- century terraced housing, with no legibility of the former strip enclosure landscape. Other character areas within the buffer include valley floor meadows and piecemeal enclosures to the east and northeast, modern housing to the north, southeast and southwest, schools and a cemetery to the west, and a nursery to the south. There is a small group of mid-19th-century terraced houses to the south along Station Road, and a 1920s housing estate to the northwest. The most recent aerial imagery of the site shows the site as a cleared, vacant plot. Cartographic/historic land use assessment: The 1854 OS map showed the site as a small enclosure within an area of strip fields. A building was shown fronting onto the road on the eastern side, shown as part of a turnpike road. The building within the site was labelled 'Station Inn' in 1893. The building was still extant but no longer labelled in 1902. By 1929, the buildings had been demolished and a new larger building occupied the east end of the site, with a C-shaped range, possibly of outbuildings, at the western side. The building was labelled a public house in 1956 and 1962. No changes were shown within the site by 1985. Within the buffer the 1854 OS map showed strip fields to the north, west and south of the site, with occasional houses to the south, labelled Providence Place and Priory Place. A railway line ran through irregular valley-floor fields to the east of the turnpike road, and Doncaster Road was present at the western edge of the buffer. Providence Place was labelled Nearfield Terrace in 1893 and may have been expanded. A mortuary chapel and small cemetery were shown near the west edge of the buffer, and the fields to the south of the site and at the northeast side of the buffer were shown as nurseries at that date. A manure works was shown to the east of the site, adjacent to the railway line. By 1902, three houses were shown to the north of the site, and the cemetery had expanded eastwards. Further housing had been built in the north, south and northeast parts of the buffer by 1929. A school had been built to the northwest of the site by 1962, when a new housing was shown between Station Road and the railway to the southeast. The manure works was demolished between 1962 and 1967, and was replaced with a builders' yard. A further school building had been added to the northwest by 1985. Survival: The site was formerly occupied by a 1920s public house and outbuildings, with a garden to the west and yard to the south. An earlier building was located on the northern side of the site in 1854, below the footprint of the later buildings. All the buildings have been demolished. Though the main public house building is likely to have disturbed any archaeological remains within its footprint, there is likely to have been less disturbance across the rest of the site. Roman remains, possibly associated with a religious site have been recorded within the buffer. The potential for the survival of buried archaeology is considered to be low to moderate. www.archeritage.co.uk Page 2 of 4 Doncaster Local Plan: Archaeological Scoping Assessment Further investigations: Further archaeological investigations may be required if the site is brought forward for development. Significance: Unknown. Remains associated with Roman ritual activity could be considered to be of Regional archaeological significance. Aerial Photographs & Lidar Summary: Aerial imagery from 2002-2015 shows the site occupied by two ranges of buildings, with a lawned garden to the west, bounded at the west and south edges by hedgerows. The buildings had red tile roofs, with the western structure being a C-shaped range of outbuildings and the eastern, street-front building being a substantial structure, probably a public house. A tarmac-surfaced yard was located between the buildings with a parking area along the southern side of the site. The northern part of the outbuilding range became progressively more degraded over the years. Street View imagery from 2008 shows the eastern building as a public house, the Station Hotel, of brick construction and painted white, with ground floor bay windows and a decorative moulded arch over the central door. The southern outbuilding behind was a two storey red-brick structure with doors in the east gable end at ground and first floor, whilst the central and north parts of the range were single-storey structures. In 2015 the ground-floor windows of the pub were boarded up. By 2016, the buildings had been demolished and the site was shown as a vacant yard. Photograph/Lidar references: Google Earth 2002, 2003, 2004, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2012, 2014, 2015 & 2016. Street View 2008, 2015 & 2016. SMR Record/event Reference Name Details Site? Buffer? ID 04912/0 Roman Site on the A watching brief uncovered Roman pottery sherds and coins Y River Idle dating to the 3rd and 4th centuries. In addition in-situ column Washlands, Bawtry bases were revealed indicating a structure, which from the finds evidence may have had a religious function. ESY466 Geophysical Survey A watching brief uncovered significant numbers of Roman Y on the River Idle pottery and coins dating to the 3rd and 4th centuries, and an Washlands in-situ column base indicated a structure, possibly with a religious function. A geophysical survey was undertaken following the discovery, which did not locate any anomalies. SMR Historic Environment Characterisation Reference Name Details Site? Buffer? ID HSY5525 Station Road, Bawtry, Doncaster Terraced Housing Y Y HSY4553 Bawtry Washlands, Bawtry, Doncaster Valley Floor Meadows Y HSY4562 Thorne Road, Bawtry, Doncaster Piecemeal Enclosure Y HSY5526 Central Drive, South Avenue, Bawtry, Planned Estate (Social Housing) Y Doncaster HSY5530 Suburban Housing to the west of Bawtry Private Housing Estate Y historic core, Bawtry, Doncaster HSY5535 Bawtry Station Yard, Bawtry, Doncaster Other Industry Y www.archeritage.co.uk Page 3 of 4 Doncaster Local Plan: Archaeological Scoping Assessment HSY5536 Kingswood Close, Bawtry, Doncaster Planned Estate (Social Housing) Y HSY5538 Stirling Avenue, Bawtry, Doncaster Private Housing Estate Y HSY5539 Cemetery Doncaster Road, Bawtry, Doncaster Cemetery Y HSY5541 Mayflower Infant and Junior School, Bawtry, School Y Doncaster HSY5542 Queens Crescent, Bawtry, Doncaster Semi-Detached Housing Y HSY5569 Peakes Croft, Russet Grove, Bawtry, Doncaster Private Housing Estate Y HSY5570 Station Road Strip Nurseries, Bawtry, Nursery Y Doncaster HSY5571 Station Road, Bawtry, Doncaster Terraced Housing Y www.archeritage.co.uk Page 4 of 4 Doncaster Local Plan: Archaeological Scoping Assessment Allocation Reference: 951 Area (Ha): 0.68 Allocation Type: Housing NGR (centre): SE 68691 14480 Site Name: Land On The Northeast Side Of Alexandra St Settlement: Thorne Allocation Recommendations Archaeological significance of site Unknown Historic landscape significance Uncertain Suitability of site for allocation Uncertain archaeological constraint Summary Within site Within buffer zone Scheduled Monument - - Listed Building - - SMR record/event - 1 event Cropmark/Lidar evidence Yes Yes Cartographic features of interest No No Estimated sub-surface disturbance Low n/a www.archeritage.co.uk Page 1 of 3 Doncaster Local Plan: Archaeological Scoping Assessment Allocation Reference: 951 Area (Ha): 0.68 Allocation Type: Housing NGR (centre): SE 68691 14480 Site Name: Land On The Northeast Side Of Alexandra St Settlement: Thorne Site assessment Known assets/character: The SMR does not record any monuments, findspots or events within the site. One event is located at the northwest edge of the buffer zone, a deposit survey that attempted to identify raised areas likely to have attracted prehistoric to medieval settlement or farming activity. No evidence for Thorne Moor peat and gravel spur deposits were encountered, and no palaeoenvironmental potential was noted. No Scheduled Monuments, listed buildings or registered parks are located within the site or buffer zone. The Magnesian Limestone in South and West Yorkshire aerial mapping project does not record any features within the site or buffer zone.