Doncaster Local Plan: Archaeological Scoping Assessment Allocation Reference: 501 Area (Ha): 0.53 Allocation Type: Housing NGR (centre): SE 6936 1566 Site Name: Adjacent 46 Marshlands Rd, Thorne Moorends 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 - 1 record Cropmark/Lidar evidence No 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: 501 Area (Ha): 0.53 Allocation Type: Housing NGR (centre): SE 6936 1566 Site Name: Adjacent 46 Marshlands Rd, Thorne Moorends Settlement: Thorne Moorends Site assessment Known assets/character: The SMR does not record any features within the site. One findspot is recorded within the buffer zone, a Bronze Age flint arrowhead. No listed buildings or Scheduled Monuments are recorded within the site or buffer zone. The Magnesian Limestone in South and West Yorkshire Aerial Photographic Mapping Project records levelled ridge and furrow remains within the buffer zone. The Historic Environment Characterisation records the present character of the site as modern commercial core- suburban, probably associated with the construction of Moorends mining village in the first half of the 20th century. There is no legibility of the former parliamentary enclosure in this area. In the western part of the buffer, the landscape character comprises land enclosed from commons and drained in 1825, with changes to the layout between 1851 and 1891 in association with the construction of a new warping system. The legibility of previous landscape types in this area is fragmentary. The remainder of the landscape character within the buffer comprises 1930s and later 20th century housing development, with no legibility of previous character types. The site was in agricultural use in 1825 and remains undeveloped land at the present day, though surrounded by 20th-century development on all sides. Cartographic/historic land use assessment: The site was shown as part of a field on the 1825 Thorne, Hatfield and Fishlake enclosure map. No change was shown within the site on the 1841 and 1854 Ordnance Survey maps, which showed the site as part of Bloom Hill. A track that led into the site from North Common Road by 1961 terminated at an unknown rectangular structure in the site’s central area. Neither of these features were shown on the 1971 OS map. No change had occurred within the site by 1991. Within the buffer zone, Marshland Road, North Common Road and North Common Drain were shown on the 1825 enclosure map, with Micklethwaite’s Farm and Grange Farm shown on the 1841 OS map. Bloom Hill Farm was shown to the south of the site in 1854, while the Doncaster to Hull branch of the North Eastern Railway had been built to the west by 1892. Buildings, including a public house and shops, had had been constructed along the site’s eastern boundary by 1956. Survival: Due to the lack of deep ground disturbance, the survival of any previously unrecorded heritage assets within in the site is considered to be moderate. Further investigations: Further archaeological investigations may be required if the site is brought forward for development. Significance: Unknown. Aerial Photographs & Lidar Summary: Twenty-first-century aerial photographs show the site as rough grass or scrub, with housing having been built to the north and west of the site between 1991 and 2002, leaving the site as a small field surrounded by housing. www.archeritage.co.uk Page 2 of 3 Doncaster Local Plan: Archaeological Scoping Assessment 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 Bronze age barbed and tanged arrowhead findspot. Y Arrowhead, Thorne Moorends SMR Historic Environment Characterisation Reference Name Details Site? Buffer? ID HSY4664 Moorends commercial core, Thorne Modern Commercial Core- Y Y Moorends, Doncaster Suburban HSY4417 Dikes Marsh and Moorends warped lands, Industrial to Modern Drained Y Thorne, Doncaster Wetland HSY4656 Moorends Village, Doncaster Modern Planned Estate (Social Y Housing) 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: 503 Area (Ha): 2.23 Allocation Type: Housing NGR (centre): SE 6931 1587 Site Name: East View Farm, Marshland Rd, Moorends 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 - 1 SMR record/event - 1 record Cropmark/Lidar evidence No 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: 503 Area (Ha): 2.23 Allocation Type: Housing NGR (centre): SE 6931 1587 Site Name: East View Farm, Marshland Rd, Moorends Settlement: Thorne Moorends Site assessment Known assets/character: The SMR does not record any monuments or findspots within the site. One findspot of a Bronze Age flint arrowhead is recorded within the southern part of the buffer zone. No listed buildings are recorded within the site. One grade II listed building, Micklethwaite Farmhouse, is recorded at the northeast edge of the buffer zone, but is screened from the site by existing housing. The Magnesian Limestone in South and West Yorkshire Aerial Photographic Mapping Project records post- medieval ridge and furrow in the northwest part of the buffer zone. The Historic Environment Characterisation records the present character of the site as Drained Wetland and Planned Estate (Social Housing). The landscape character within the majority of the site is defined as land enclosed and drained as part of the Parliamentary Enclosure Award of 1825, with changes to boundaries and drainage between 1851 and 1891 in association with the construction of a new warping system. There is fragmentary visibility of previous landscape types in this area. The house at the eastern side of the site is part of a model village built in the 1920s to house workers from the nearby colliery. Within the buffer, additional landscape character types include part of the Thorne Cables enclosed and drained land, also enclosed in 1825, with many of the narrow fields having been agglomerated in the late 20th century in association with the intensification of arable production. This has led to only partial legibility of the Parliamentary Enclosure fields. The remainder of the landscape character within the buffer comprises 20th-century housing development, with no legibility of previous character types. The site has been in agricultural use since at least 1841 and mainly remains undeveloped land at the present day, with a house built at the eastern side of the site by 1932 as part of the Moorends colliery village. Cartographic/historic land use assessment: The site was shown as part of a field on the 1825 Thorne, Hatfield and Fishlake enclosure map. No changes were depicted on the 1841 and 1854 Ordnance Survey maps. The construction of the Doncaster to Hull branch of the North Eastern Railway had created the site’s western boundary prior to 1892. A square pond and areas of marsh or waterlogged ground were shown in the western part of the site at that date. No.2 Marshland Road had been constructed in the eastern part of the site by 1932, when a number of outbuildings were shown in the field to the west. These had been cleared by 1962, when further outbuildings and a barn were shown to the west of the house. Within the buffer zone, Marshland Road, North Common Road, Marsh Drain, North Common Drain were shown on the 1825 enclosure map, with Micklethwaite’s Farm and Grange Farm shown on the 1841 OS map. Buildings were shown to the south of the site in 1854, while the Doncaster to Hull branch of the North Eastern Railway had been built along the western site boundary by 1892. A public house and a depot were shown within the buffer zone in 1906, while houses had been built to the east of the site by 1932 and to the south by 1948. Further houses were constructed in the latter area during the 1980s. Survival: A pond was shown within the western part of the site in 1892 and a house was constructed at the eastern side by 1932. Both of these factors are likely to have caused some truncation of sub-surface deposits. Within the remainder of the site, the potential for the survival of unrecorded buried archaeology is considered to be moderate. Further investigations: Further archaeological investigations may 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. Aerial Photographs & Lidar Summary: Twenty-first-century aerial photographs show no.2 Marshland Road and its outbuildings, with the remainder of the site as rough grassland.