Data from an Archaeological Evaluation at Southam Road, Radford Semele, 2016

This digital archive comprises images, site record and report data. CFA Archaeology Ltd carried out an archaeological evaluation on a proposed housing development on land south of Southam Road, Radford Semele, Warwickshire (centred on SP 34846 64305). The evaluation area comprised a cultivated field 5.78ha in extent and an extension for a flood attenuation area totaling 7.84 hectares. The work was carried out between the 26th of April and 6th of May 2016 for Taylor Wimpey. Thirty-two trenches were excavated targeted on geophysical anomalies identified in geophysical survey covering approximately 3 ha in indicating an archaeological site. The western half of the Site revealed a series of ditches, pits and post holes below a deep plough soil dating to the Roman period/Iron Age, corresponding closely to the geophysical anomalies.