Report and Images from Archaeological Investigations at West Road, Lympsham, Weston-Super-Mare, 2020

This collection comprises the site report and digital photographs from archaeological investigations on land at West Road, Lympsham, Weston-Super-Mare, Somerset. The work was undertaken prior to residential development by AC Archaeology in March and November 2020. The investigations uncovered evidence for archaeological features dating from the medieval and post-medieval periods with some use of the site during the Romano-British period. The medieval pottery finds indicate that the site was on the periphery of domestic settlement in the period potentially from the 10th-13th centuries through to the later Middle Ages. The ditches were presumably for drainage and the pits for rubbish disposal. There was also activity in the post-medieval period, most notably the digging of a large ditch. The finds comprised a small number of sherds of Roman pottery, a larger assemblage of medieval and post-medieval pottery, an iron nail, a chunk of blacksmith's clinker, post-medieval or modern ceramic building material, a small amount of fired clay, a single piece of clay tobacco pipe, a bone needle, pieces of sea shell, a worked antler tine and other pieces of animal bone.