Data from a Trial Trench Evaluation at Wellwick Farm, Wendover Green, Buckinghamshire, 2018-2019 (HS2 Phase One)

This collection comprises a digital archive of photographs, reports, GIS, spreadsheets, and scanned site records from a trial trench evaluation by INFRA Archaeology at Wellwick Farm, near Wendover, Buckinghamshire between November 2018 and January 2019.

A total of 148 trenches were excavated producing substantial ditches, large pits, postholes and a buried prehistoric soil horizon. The trial trench evaluation has demonstrated areas of archaeological activity across the site and this information can be used in order to inform an appropriate mitigation strategy. It was recommended that open-area excavation be carried out to allow a complete picture of the Late Bronze Age to Iron Age occupation on site, and expand our understanding both on the layout and form the occupation took and answer questions surrounding the Roman and Medieval occupation which is present in this area. This suggested work was carried out in 2019-2020 under the site code 1C19WWFAR.

The assemblage of pottery dating from the Late Bronze to the Late Iron Age period is not numerous in the Chilterns. This site has the potential to increase our understanding of and begin to synthesise regional ceramic typologies which will benefit the sequencing of other sites.

The Site sits close by to a potential Roman villa structure highlighted in the Archaeological Notification Area of Wellwick Farm to the west, suggests a possible continued presence between the Iron Age and Roman period and may have some bearing on the siting of a potential high status Roman building which has also produced a rare Roman casket burial (Zeepvat 2003).