Land West of Cheltenham Road, Evesham, Worcestershire. Archaeological Evaluation (OASIS ID: cotswold2-228090)

An archaeological evaluation was undertaken by Cotswold Archaeology in October 2014 at land west of Cheltenham Road, Evesham, Worcestershire. Twenty-two trenches were excavated. A field system, consisting of ditches enclosing furrowed fields, was recorded in the south-east of the site. Whilst two of the ditches contained small, abraded sherds of probable Roman pottery, and the alignment of the ditches matched that of a Roman settlement revealed previously to the south-east of the site, other ditches in the same system contained post-medieval artefacts. Therefore, the date of origin of the field system remains in question, although no other Roman features or artefacts were revealed to suggest that Roman settlement per se continued into the proposed development site.

2014年10月，科茨沃尔德考古公司（Cotswold Archaeology）在伍斯特郡伊夫舍姆切尔滕纳姆路西侧地块开展考古评估工作。本次共发掘22条探沟。在遗址东南部记录到一处由环绕犁耕地的壕沟构成的农田系统：尽管其中两条壕沟内出土了带有磨蚀痕迹的小型疑似罗马陶片残件，且该壕沟组的排布走向与遗址东南部此前揭露的罗马聚落布局相吻合，但同一系统内的其余壕沟却出土了中世纪后期的人工遗物。因此，该农田系统的始建年代目前仍存在争议；尽管本次发掘未在拟建开发地块内发现其他罗马时期遗迹或人工遗物，无法证明罗马聚落本身延续至该拟建开发区域内。