Digital Archive from an Archaeological Excavation at Backbridge Farm, Malmesbury, Wiltshire, June to August 2021

This collection consists of images, spreadsheets, databases and GIS data from an archaeological excavation by Cotswold Archaeology. Work occurred on land at Backbridge Farm, Malmesbury, Wiltshire, from June to August 2021. A very small number of worked flints including a Mesolithic/Neolithic retouched blade were found. A ditch in the centre of the site, originally identified during the earlier evaluation, contained a small assemblage of Late prehistoric pottery and is suggested to be of broad Iron Age date. Evidence of Middle Roman activity was found across the narrow Area 1 excavation in the north-west of the site and comprised three sub-phases of Roman ditched enclosures. The land appears to have been used as agricultural fields during the subsequent medieval and post-medieval periods as indicated by extensive ridge and furrow and a probable postmedieval/modern field boundary.