Land off Salisbury Street, Amesbury, Wiltshire: Excavation

The excavation revealed several features of probable late Saxon date, including a number of aligned ditches (property boundaries), a dog burial within a pit and other smaller pits. Some of these features can be correlated with recorded documentary evidence. Medieval features include an east to west aligned ditch just to the north of the present day northern boundary wall of the former Redworth House, other ditches and some intercutting pits. In addition several other ditches and some quarry pits can be assigned to the post-medieval and modern periods. The evidence from these features was relatively typical for the periods represented, with domestic pottery, ironwork (including an awl and nails) and worked bone. A small amount of evidence for earlier activity includes worked flint, and a few residual Roman and early/middle Saxon sherds, with a collection of Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age flints found during the watching brief. This deposition includes the site data and post-excavation data gathered from the excavation and watching brief, the physical archive is being held in the Salisbury and Wiltshire Museum under the accession number 2018.99.

本次考古发掘揭露了多处疑似晚期撒克逊时期的遗存，包括数条定向沟渠（作为地产界址）、一处坑内犬类墓葬遗存，以及其他小型坑穴。其中部分遗存可与已记载的文献史料相互印证。中世纪遗存包括位于原雷德沃斯宅邸（Redworth House）现今北侧界墙以北的一条东西向定向沟渠，另有其他沟渠以及若干相互叠压的坑穴。此外，另有数条沟渠及若干采石坑可被归为后中世纪与近现代遗存。上述遗存所出土的遗物具有对应时期的典型特征，包括日用陶器、铁器制品（含锥子与铁钉）以及加工骨器。关于更早活动的少量遗存证据包括加工燧石，以及数片残留的罗马时期与早/中撒克逊时期陶片；本次考古监护清理过程中还采集到一批晚新石器时代/早青铜时代燧石制品。本归档资料包含本次发掘与考古监护清理过程中获取的遗址数据及发掘后整理数据，实体档案现收藏于索尔兹伯里与威尔特郡博物馆（Salisbury and Wiltshire Museum），入藏编号为2018.99。