Images from Archaeological Investigations at Dishforth Road, Boroughbridge, North Yorkshire, 2017-21

This collection comprises images from archaeological investigations at Dishforth Road, Boroughbridge, North Yorkshire, undertaken by On-Site Archaeology between 2017 and 2021. The evaluation was required as part of Condition 24 of the grant of outline planning permission. A total of five evaluation trenches were excavated in this phase, each measuring 50m by 2m at the modern ground surface. The eastern area of the site, where geophysical survey and trial trenching indicated a concentration of archaeology was excavated as Area A. The expansion of the area previously investigated by trench 5 during the second phase of evaluation was recorded as Area B. The second phase of works was undertaken outside the main development site along the line of a proposed surface water outfall pipe (Areas C and D). The field where the pipe trench was proposed lay partially within the registered battlefield site of the Battle of Boroughbridge. The earliest phase of activity largely comprised an enclosed Iron Age settlement. Only Iron Age, hand-made pottery, was recovered from the internal features of the principal enclosure indicating abandonment or disuse of the internal area after the Iron Age period. Activity during the Roman period appears to be represented by the shallower redefinition and extension of the existing principal enclosure and the creation of additional land division.