Data from a Trial Trenching at Lower Radbourne Deserted Medieval Village, Warwickshire, 2020 (HS2 Phase One)

This collection comprises images, spreadsheets, reports, vector graphics, and scanned site records and drawings from a trial trench evaluation by Archaeological Research Services at Lower Radbourne Deserted Medieval Village, Warwickshire. A total of 91 trenches were excavated across six fields in order to establish the survivability of the deserted medieval village. Of these, 35 revealed the presence of archaeology that included ditch, pit, posthole, gully, stone surface and structural features as well as stray small finds from the topsoil. These features produced Mesolithic through medieval artefacts as well as post-medieval ceramics in the topsoil and trench 25.
The results of the evaluation confirmed the presence of the Radbourne deserted medieval village (DMV) and the presence of three circular ditches identified from recent geophysical surveys and ditches of apparent Iron Age date.