Images and Site Records from a Trial Trench Evaluation at Higher Standen Drive School, Clitheroe, Lancashire 2022

This collection comprises images and scanned site records from an archaeological trial trench evaluation by Oxford Archaeology (OA) North on land at Higher Standen Drive, Clitheroe, Lancashire (NGR SD 74945 40725).
The evaluation was undertaken as a condition of Planning Permission (planning ref.: 3/2022/0116) concerning a proposed school development on the site. The work was carried out over two days; between 7th and 8th July 2022.
A total of nine trenches were excavated, three of which were positioned on the course of a putative Roman road, although one of the trenches targeting the putative Roman road was required to be moved due to its proposed position being in a part of site which had been fenced off. Archaeological remains were only encountered in Trench 1, in the form of a shallow ditch, there was also evidence of a post-medieval stone-lined culvert in Trenches 1, 2 and 3. All other trenches were entirely blank and there were no finds recovered. As such, it is likely that any remains which may have been associated with the putative Roman road have been truncated and there is no remaining potential for significant archaeological remains to have survived.