Digital Archive from an Archaeological Evaluation at The Portway, Old Sarum, Salisbury, Wiltshire, 2024

This collection comprises image, text, spreadsheet and GIS data from an Archaeological Evaluation on land at The Portway, Old Sarum, Salisbury, Wiltshire. The work was undertaken by Wessex Archaeology and comprised the excavation, investigation and recording of 108 trial trenches. Thirty-three of the excavated trial trenches contained archaeological features and deposits. The uncovered features comprised ditches, gullies, ring ditches, pits, postholes, inhumation graves, a wall and a beamslot representing three main periods of activity: early prehistoric, Iron Age and Romano-British though several features remain of uncertain date. There is also some evidence of earlier activity in the vicinity as indicated by small quantities of worked flint of probable Neolithic or Early to Middle Bronze Age date, found residually in later features and from unstratified contexts. The only evidence of activity post-dating the Romano-British period is represented by two sherds of medieval pottery found intrusively in the upper fill of two Romano-British pits.