SOUTH-WEST REINFORCEMENT PROJECT OTTERY ST MARY TO AYLESBEARE AYLESBEARE TO KENN FISHACRE TO CHOAKFORD GAS PIPELINES DEVON POST-EXCAVATION ASSESSMENT AND UPDATED PROJECT DESIGN ISSUE 2 Volume 1: Text For LAING O’ROURKE on behalf of NATIONAL GRID CA PROJECT: 9070 CA REPORT: 09106 FEBRUARY 2010 SOUTH-WEST REINFORCEMENT PROJECT OTTERY ST. MARY TO AYLESBEARE AYLESBEARE TO KENN FISHACRE TO CHOAKFORD GAS PIPELINES DEVON POST-EXCAVATION ASSESSMENT AND UPDATED PROJECT DESIGN VOLUME 1: TEXT CA PROJECT: 9070 CA REPORT: 09106 Author: Stuart Joyce, Andrew Mudd, Mark Collard Approved: Martin Watts Signed: ……………………………………………………………. Issue: 02 Date: February 2010 This report is confidential to the client. Cotswold Archaeology accepts no responsibility or liability to any third party to whom this report, or any part of it, is made known. Any such party relies upon this report entirely at their own risk. No part of this report may be reproduced by any means without permission. © Cotswold Archaeology Building 11, Kemble Enterprise Park, Kemble, Cirencester, Gloucestershire, GL7 6BQ Tel. 01285 771022 Fax. 01285 771033 E-mail: [email protected] SWRP Devon Gas Pipelines: Post-Excavation Assessment and Updated Project Design © Cotswold Archaeology VOLUME 1 CONTENTS SUMMARY........................................................................................................................11 1. INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................. 13 Location and topography ..................................................................................... 13 Archaeological background.................................................................................. 14 2. OBJECTIVES AND METHODS ........................................................................... 16 Archive ................................................................................................................. 17 3. SUMMARY OF FIELDWORK PROGRAMME ..................................................... 18 Ottery St Mary to Aylesbeare............................................................................... 18 Aylesbeare to Kenn.............................................................................................. 18 Fishacre to Choakford.......................................................................................... 19 4. DATING AND PHASING...................................................................................... 20 5. SUMMARY EXCAVATION RESULTS................................................................. 21 Site OTA 1.03 ..................................................................................................... 21 Site OTA 2.03 ...................................................................................................... 21 Sites OTA 2.06, 3.01 ........................................................................................... 21 Site OTA 3.04 ...................................................................................................... 22 Site OTA 3.07 ...................................................................................................... 24 Site OTA 4.01 ...................................................................................................... 24 Site OTA 4.05 ...................................................................................................... 25 Site OTA 4.06 ...................................................................................................... 25 Site OTA 4.07 ...................................................................................................... 26 Site OTA 4.08 ...................................................................................................... 26 Site OTA 4.09 ...................................................................................................... 26 Site OTA 4.10 ...................................................................................................... 27 Site OTA 4.12 ...................................................................................................... 28 Site OTA 5.01 ...................................................................................................... 28 2 SWRP Devon Gas Pipelines: Post-Excavation Assessment and Updated Project Design © Cotswold Archaeology Site OTA 5.02 ...................................................................................................... 29 Site OTA 7A.04 .................................................................................................... 29 Site OTA 7A.06 .................................................................................................... 29 Site OTA 8A.01 .................................................................................................... 30 Site OTA 8A.06 .................................................................................................... 30 Site OTA 9.01 ...................................................................................................... 30 Site OTA 9.02 ...................................................................................................... 31 Site ATK 0.02....................................................................................................... 31 Site ATK 0.03....................................................................................................... 31 Site ATK 0.04....................................................................................................... 32 Site ATK 4.04....................................................................................................... 32 Site ATK 4a.01..................................................................................................... 32 Site ATK 6.06....................................................................................................... 33 Site ATK 7.01....................................................................................................... 33 Site ATK 9.01....................................................................................................... 33 Site ATK 11.04..................................................................................................... 34 Site ATK 12.01..................................................................................................... 34 Site ATK 12.10..................................................................................................... 36 Site ATK 12.12..................................................................................................... 36 Site ATK 12.13..................................................................................................... 36 Site ATK 13.01..................................................................................................... 37 Site ATK 13.02..................................................................................................... 37 Site ATK 14.01..................................................................................................... 42 Site ATK 14.02..................................................................................................... 42 Site ATK 14.03..................................................................................................... 42 Site ATK 14.08..................................................................................................... 43 Site ATK 14.09..................................................................................................... 43 Site ATK 15.02..................................................................................................... 44 Site ATK 15.03..................................................................................................... 44 Site FTC 1.01....................................................................................................... 45 Site FTC 2.02....................................................................................................... 45 Site FTC 4.01....................................................................................................... 46 Site FTC 7.01....................................................................................................... 46 Site FTC 8.01....................................................................................................... 47 Site FTC 8.02, 8.03.............................................................................................. 48 Site FTC 10.01 .................................................................................................... 48 Site FTC 12.05..................................................................................................... 49 3 SWRP Devon Gas Pipelines: Post-Excavation Assessment and Updated Project Design © Cotswold Archaeology Site FTC 12.05w ................................................................................................. 49 Site FTC 13.03 .................................................................................................... 50 Site FTC 14.01..................................................................................................... 51 Site FTC 15.01..................................................................................................... 52 Site FTC 15.02..................................................................................................... 52 Site FTC 16.01 ...................................................................................................