Doncaster Local Plan: Archaeological Scoping Assessment
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Doncaster Local Plan: Archaeological Scoping Assessment Allocation Reference: 330 Area (Ha): 1.06 Allocation Type: Housing NGR (centre): SE 6490 0010 Site Name: Land off Bell Butts Lane, Auckley Settlement: Auckley 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 - 1 SMR record/event 1 record 3 records/1 event Cropmark/Lidar evidence No No 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: 330 Area (Ha): 1.06 Allocation Type: Housing NGR (centre): SE 6490 0010 Site Name: Land off Bell Butts Lane, Auckley Settlement: Auckley Site assessment Known assets/character: The SMR records one monument within the site, extending throughout the buffer. This is an area that formed the core of Doncaster’s Roman pottery production, with pottery kilns frequently found, including in Aukley. One further monument, one findspot and one event are recorded within the buffer. These comprise the findspot of a Neolithic or Bronze Age axe or adze, a geophysical survey which indicated the presence of a pit and the pit itself which contained late Neolithic to early Bronze Age pottery and flint. No Scheduled Monuments or listed buildings are recorded within the site. One grade II listed structure is recorded within the buffer; a mounting block adjacent to the Eagle and Child public house. The Magnesian Limestone in South and West Yorkshire Aerial Photographic Mapping Project recorded 20th century sand and gravel extraction sites within the buffer to the west and south of the site. Historic Environment Characterisation records the character of the site and part of the buffer as wetland which was drained from c.1630 onwards and enclosed prior to 1778. Further character zones within the buffer include Surveyed Parliamentary/Private enclosure, a sand and gravel extraction site, and farm and housing complexes. The site is a field under arable cultivation, bounded to the south by Bell Butts Lane and to the northeast by modern housing. Cartographic/historic land use assessment: The site currently retains the same field boundaries as depicted on the 1854 OS map. Within the buffer, the 1854 map shows farm buildings to the east and farmland to the west of the site. Sand and gravel extraction was first depicted to the west on the 1962 OS map, though the extensive pits were shown as disused by this date, and the western pits appeared to have been infilled and reinstated by 1975. On the 1985 OS map, rectangular ponds were depicted within the mineral extraction area to the south of the site. The housing complex in the field directly north of the site was built between 1993 and 2002. Survival: No development has been recorded within the site on historic maps or photographs. It is therefore considered that the potential for unrecorded buried archaeology to survive is moderate to high. The site lies within an area of known Roman activity, including the production of pottery, and Neolithic to Bronze Age finds have also been recovered within the buffer. Further investigations: Further archaeological investigations are likely to be required if the site is brought forward for development. Significance: Unknown. Remains associated with Roman activity and pottery production could be of Local to Regional significance, depending on their nature, condition and extent. Note: Site 330 is almost identical to Site 049, and within the southern extent of Site 174. Aerial Photographs & Lidar Summary: The 2002 and 2003 aerial photographs show that the site as a field in predominantly arable use, with hedged boundaries. No Lidar data is currently available for the site. www.archeritage.co.uk Page 2 of 3 Doncaster Local Plan: Archaeological Scoping Assessment Photograph references: Google Earth coverage, 2002, 2008 & 2009. RAF/CPE/UK/1880 2115 06-Dec-19-1946. Statutory Designations Reference Name Designation/ Site? Buffer? ID Grade 1415774 Mounting Block adjacent to the north-east corner of the Eagle and II Y Child Public House SMR Record/event Reference Name Details Site? Buffer? ID 00712/01 Neolithic or Bronze Stone axe or adze Y Age axe or adze, Auckley 04492/01 Late Neolithic or A pit containing pottery and flint of Early Bronze Age date, Y Early Bronze Age along with earlier flint artefacts, located during archaeological Pit, Main Street, investigations. Auckley 04930 The Doncaster A series of potteries have been recorded and excavated in the Y Y Roman Pottery Doncaster district over several decades. The potteries may be Production Area considered a single industrial entity that stretches across several kilometres to the east of Doncaster. To date, sites have been recorded in the parishes of Cantley, Rossington, Blaxton, Auckley and Doncaster. ESY323 Archaeological In September and October 1994 a geophysical survey and Y Evaluation on Land programme of trial trenching was undertaken on land off Main off Main Street Street. The results indicated the presence of a pit containing lithics dating the feature to the late Neolithic or Bronze Age date. SMR Historic Environment Characterisation Reference Name Details Site? Buffer? ID HSY4545 The Carrs, Auckley, Doncaster Drained Wetland Y Y HSY4575 Mill Fields, Auckley, Doncaster Surveyed Enclosure Y (Parliamentary/ Private) HSY4577 Hurst Lane, Auckley, Doncaster Other Mineral Extraction & Y Processing HSY4960 Auckley Common, Auckley, Doncaster Playing Fields/ Recreation ground Y HSY4961 Childers Drive, Auckley, Doncaster Private Housing Estate Y HSY4964 Brookehouse Farm, Auckley, Doncaster Farm Complex Y HSY4968 Auckley, Doncaster Villas/ Detached Housing Y HSY4972 Riverside Gardens, Auckley, Doncaster Private Housing Estate Y www.archeritage.co.uk Page 3 of 3 Doncaster Local Plan: Archaeological Scoping Assessment Allocation Reference: 331 Area (Ha): 0.87 Allocation Type: Housing NGR (centre): SE 6957 1409 Site Name: Land off Coulman Road, Thorne Settlement: Thorne Moorends 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 - - Cropmark/Lidar evidence No No Cartographic features of interest No No Estimated sub-surface disturbance Partial n/a www.archeritage.co.uk Page 1 of 3 Doncaster Local Plan: Archaeological Scoping Assessment Allocation Reference: 331 Area (Ha): 0.87 Allocation Type: Housing NGR (centre): SE 6957 1409 Site Name: Land off Coulman Road, Thorne Settlement: Thorne Moorends Site assessment Known assets/character: The SMR does not record any features within the site or buffer zone. No Scheduled Monuments or listed buildings are recorded within the site or the buffer zone. The Magnesian Limestone in South and West Yorkshire Aerial Photographic Mapping Project did not record any features within the site or the buffer zone. The Historic Environment Characterisation records the present character of the site as Industrial to Modern drained wetland of North Common, this former common land depicted as newly laid out allotments on the 1825 enclosure plan. The present boundaries are largely defined by 19th-century drainage layout. There is no legibility of former common land. Within the buffer zone, additional landscape character types include part of the Thorne Cables enclosed and drained land, also enclosed as part of the parliamentary enclosure award, with many of the narrow fields having been agglomerated in the late 20th century in association with the intensification of arable production. The remainder of the landscape character within the buffer comprises 20th-century housing and industrial development, with no legibility, or very fragmentary remains, of previous character types. Historic landfill data records the Brickworks, King Edward Road, Thorne, within the buffer zone, to the west of the site. The site has been in agricultural use since at least 1825 and remains undeveloped to the present day. The present site boundaries comprise a road to the south, present on the first edition OS map as Elgin Road and subsequently renamed Coulman Road in the 20th century. The northern site boundary comprises a modern field boundary installed sometime between 2002 and 2008. The eastern and western site boundaries are modern boundaries denoting parcels of industrial land; the eastern boundary appears to be new, although the western boundary seems to respect the former boundary of the 1825 enclosure award. Cartographic/historic land use assessment: The site covers the southern half of a single field, which was enclosed in 1825. Little change has occurred on the site and it appears to have remained arable land until 2002. At some point between then and 2008, the northern and eastern site boundaries were constructed with the development of an industrial unit immediately to the east of the site. At this point the site appears to cease being arable land, turning to scrub wasteland. Within the buffer zone, a brick works had been established to the west by 1892 and had been extended by 1932. In 1902, a building, ‘Moorville’, was just to the north-west of the site, which had been extended by 1970, with the addition of an eastern boundary, which denotes the western boundary the site. By 1948, a number of houses had been constructed to the west of the site, which had been substantially added to by 1971. By 1956, a factory building had been built immediately to the west of the site, which was extended by 1962. Another factory building was constructed immediately to the south-west of the site by 1975, along with a track which is now Coulman Road, and another building labelled ‘works’; these are beginnings of an industrial estate that had expanded significantly to the east by 1987. By 2008, two industrial-type buildings had been constructed immediately to the east of the site, with the associated land turned to scrub wasteland from arable land.