Doncaster Local Plan: Archaeological Scoping Assessment Allocation Reference: 150 Area (Ha): 6.31 Allocation Type: Housing NGR (centre): SE 6910 1536 Site Name: Land adjacent Bloomhill Stud Farm, Moorends Settlement: Thorne Moorends 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 record, 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: 150 Area (Ha): 6.31 Allocation Type: Housing NGR (centre): SE 6910 1536 Site Name: Land adjacent Bloomhill Stud Farm, Moorends Settlement: Thorne Moorends Site assessment Known assets/character: The SMR does not record any monuments or findspots within the site. One findspot and one event are recorded in the buffer zone. The findspot is of a Bronze Age flint arrowhead, whilst the event was a coring survey undertaken to identify any areas of raised land which may have attracted prehistoric and later settlement. The survey identified the sub-surface deposits as inorganic sand, silt and clay, with no continuation of the Thorne Moor peat and gravel spurs into the area. 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 records ridge and furrow earthworks and cropmarks within the site and buffer zone, though no earthwork features are shown within the site on recent aerial images. The Historic Environment Characterisation records the present character of the site as Drained Wetland and modern Private Housing Estate. The character within the southern half of the site and part of the buffer is defined as land enclosed as part of the Parliamentary Enclosure of the area in 1825, with no legibility of former common land. The present boundaries within this character area are largely defined by the 19th century drainage layout. The northern part of the site was also enclosed in 1825, with changes in the layout of drainage and subdivision between 1851 and 1891 in association with the construction of the 1850s warping system fed by Durham's Warping Drain. The legibility of the Parliamentary Enclosure field boundaries within the site is good. Only a small section of the 1970s housing along the southern edge of the site intrudes into the site area, comprising outbuildings to the rear of one property. To the north and east of the site the landscape character Within the buffer comprises 20th century commercial core-suburban and residential development, with no legibility of former landscapes. The site currently comprises six small fields used as pasture land, and a garden containing a building at the southern end. It has been in agricultural use since at least 1825. Cartographic/historic land use assessment: The site was shown as fields on the 1825 Thorne, Hatfield and Fishlake enclosure map, when North Common Drain crossed the northern part of the site. No change was shown within the site between 1854 and 1962. Two detached buildings and an open-sided feature were shown in the eastern part of the site on the 1971 OS map, when this part of the site appears to have formed gardens to the rear of houses on North Common Lane. None of the garden structures were shown on the 1980 OS map. Within the buffer zone, North Common Drain, North Common Road and Marshland Road were extant by 1825. Mount Pleasant was marked on the 1841 OS map, with Bloom Hill Farm shown in 1854. North Common Drain had been modified by the construction of the Doncaster to Hull branch of the North Eastern Railway along the western site boundary by 1892. A Catholic church, a presbytery and housing developments were also shown within the buffer zone at that date. Little change had occurred by 1956 but a coal yard and a second church were shown in 1962, while further housing development had occurred by 1971. Bloomhill Stud Farm had been established immediately to the south-west of the site by 1991. Survival: Due to the relative lack of sub-surface disturbance, the potential for the survival of buried archaeology is considered to be moderate. Further investigations: Further archaeological investigation is likely to be required if the site is brought forward for development. www.archeritage.co.uk Page 2 of 3 Doncaster Local Plan: Archaeological Scoping Assessment Significance: Unknown. Note: Site 150 is the same as Site 276. Aerial Photographs & Lidar Summary: Twenty-first-century aerial photographs show the site as scrub or rough pasture, with the 19th-century field boundaries marked by overgrown hedges. A field in the western part of the site was sub-divided into a series of smaller, square plots between 2002 and 2008, probably fenced enclosures associated with Bloomhill Stud Farm. There is no Lidar coverage for the site. Photograph references: Google Earth coverage 2002, 2008 & 2009. SMR Record/event Reference Name Details Site? Buffer? ID 01886/01 Bronze Age Barbed and tanged Bronze Age arrowhead from Moorends. Y Arrowhead, Thorne Moorends ESY539 Bloom Hill, Thorne In November 2002 a programme of coring was conducted on Y Moor land at Common Road in Bloom Hill. The deposit survey was carried out to identify any raised areas likely to have attracted early settlement or subsistence activity. The deposits encountered were mainly inorganic sand, silt and clay. Of particular interest was that no evidence for a continuation of the nearby Thorne Moors peat and gravel spur deposits was encountered by this survey. SMR Historic Environment Characterisation Reference Name Details Site? Buffer? ID HSY4416 North Common, Thorne, Doncaster Industrial to Modern Drained Y Y Wetland HSY4417 Dikes Marsh and Moorends warped lands, Industrial to Modern Drained Y Y Thorne, Doncaster Wetland HSY4667 1970s estates to the south of Moorends Modern Private Housing Estate Y Y village, Doncaster HSY4664 Moorends commercial core, Thorne Modern Commercial Core- Y Moorends, Doncaster Suburban HSY4665 Darlington Grove, East Gate and Belvedere, Modern Planned Estate (Social Y Moorends, Doncaster Housing) HSY4666 Bloomhill Court, Moorends, Doncaster Modern Private Housing Estate Y www.archeritage.co.uk Page 3 of 3 Doncaster Local Plan: Archaeological Scoping Assessment Allocation Reference: 152 Area (Ha): 2.76 Allocation Type: Housing NGR (centre): SK 6793 9966 Site Name: Land off Bank End Quarry, Blaxton (Site 1) Settlement: Finningley 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 Yes Estimated sub-surface disturbance Low n/a www.archeritage.co.uk Page 1 of 3 Doncaster Local Plan: Archaeological Scoping Assessment Allocation Reference: 152 Area (Ha): 2.76 Allocation Type: Housing NGR (centre): SK 6793 9966 Site Name: Land off Bank End Quarry, Blaxton (Site 1) Settlement: Finningley Site assessment Known assets/character: The SMR does not record any findspots, monuments or events within the site or the 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, though this area is likely to be outside the remit of that project. The Historic Environment Characterisation records the present character of the site and much of the northern and eastern part of the buffer as an area of sand and gravel extraction, with no legibility of the former Parliamentary Enclosure landscape created in 1778. Further character zones within the buffer are defined as Surveyed Enclosure (Parliamentary/ Private), Agglomerated Fields, Private Housing Estate and Regenerated Scrubland. The site is currently an area of rough grass, separated from a sand and gravel quarry to the north by a belt of trees. The northwest boundary is formed by Wroot Road, and the southern boundary by a railway line. Cartographic/historic land use assessment: The site was shown as a field on the 1886 Ordnance Survey map. No further changes were shown within the site until the 1962 OS map, when the land was shown as an area of rough heath or scrub. A similarly-marked area to the north and northeast of the site had been subjected to sand and gravel extraction. The site was shown as scrub on the 1992 OS map. The Historic Environment Characterisation data records the site as mineral extraction; however, none of the available OS maps show the land as an extraction site. While it is possible that sand and gravel were removed and the site infilled with made ground in the period between the surveying of later 20th- century maps, or between the 1992 map and the 2002 aerial photograph, there is currently no evidence to confirm this. Various features were marked within the buffer zone on the 1885 OS map including fields, Wroot Road, Wroot Road railway crossing, the Great Northern & Great Eastern Joint Railway and a cluster of three unlabelled buildings on the west side of Wroot Road. A small number of buildings of unknown function had been constructed on the south side of the railway line by 1902. By 1956, a large sand and gravel pit was shown at the northern side of the buffer, with a works shown within the pit by 1963. By that date, the buildings to the west of Wroot Road had been replaced by ‘White House’ and those to the south of the railway line were marked ‘Gate House’.