Allocation Reference:1051 Area (Ha): 1.29 Allocation Type ...... · Church of St Laurence II Y...

Doncaster Local Plan: Archaeological Scoping Assessment

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Allocation Reference:1051 Allocation Type: Housing Site Name: Fern Bank/Adwick Depot, Adwick

Area (Ha): 1.29 NGR (centre): SE 5403 0876 Settlement: Adwick-le-Street/Woodlands

Allocation Recommendations

Archaeological significance of site Local

Historic landscape significance Negligible

Suitability of site for allocation Uncertain archaeological constraint

Summary

Within site Within buffer zone Scheduled Monument - 1 Listed Building - 4 SMR record/event 1 record 8 records/2events Cropmark/Lidar evidence No Yes Cartographic features of interest No Yes Estimated sub-surface disturbance Extensive n/a



Allocation Reference: 1051 Allocation Type: Housing Site Name: Fern Bank/Adwick Depot, Adwick

Area (Ha): 1.29 NGR (centre): SE 5403 0876 Settlement: Adwick-le-Street/Woodlands

Site assessment Known assets/character:

The SMR records one monument within the site, a late 17th-century barn and dovecote. Eight monuments and two events are recorded within the buffer. Immediately to the east of the site lies the possible medieval shrunken village of Adwick le Street/Bentley, which contains the site of a medieval moat. A little further to the southeast, post-medieval ridge and furrow has been recorded, though the area has since been built over. To the south of the site are the grade II* listed medieval church of St Lawrence, a medieval cross in the churchyard, which is a Scheduled Monument and grade II listed, and the site of Adwick Hall and garden. To the northeast of the site is a post-medieval corn mill, which is also grade II listed. The two events relate to recording during restoration of the corn mill.

There is one Scheduled Monument within the buffer, the medieval cross in the churchyard of St Lawrence, noted above. Four listed buildings exist within the buffer. These comprise the grade II* church of St Lawrence, and grade II medieval cross and corn mill, noted above. Also within the church is a grade II listed Cholera memorial.

One locally listed park is recorded in the southwest part of the buffer, Adwick Park, which is a municipal park previously forming the grounds of Adwick Hall.

The Magnesian Limestone in South and West Yorkshire Aerial Photographic Mapping Project does not record any features within the site. Within the buffer, earthworks related to the medieval moat are recorded to the east of the site. Levelled post-medieval ridge and furrow is recorded throughout the buffer, particularly to the northwest, though in most cases this has been built over.

Historic landfill data records an area of infilled ground to the north of the site at Mill Lane.

Historic Environment Characterisation records the present character of the eastern half of the site as late 20th-century institutional buildings including a school and a council depot, with no legibility of the earlier strip enclosure landscape. The western half of the site is identified as residential, in an area which the 1854 OS map depicts a layout which may have developed as burgage plots along Village Street. There is probable fragmentary legibility of some older plot boundaries. Within the buffer, character areas comprise a variety of housing, industrial plots and schools. To the immediate east of the site are valley floor meadows, within the area of the possible deserted medieval settlement. There is fragmentary visibility of former landscape characters within the buffer, due to the concentration of modern development.

The site currently comprises a developed area with brick and stone built barns and warehouse buildings, sea containers and concreted vehicle parking/loading areas. It is bounded on all sides by residential buildings.

Cartographic/historic land use assessment:

On the 1851 OS map the site comprises a series of strip fields and crofts associated with buildings located at the western side of the site, fronting onto Village Street and Mill Lane. The 1892 map depicted a T-shaped range of buildings at the northwest corner of the site, possibly barns, with two buildings to the south, one of which may have been a house, and an L-shaped probable barn range at the southwest corner. The fields in the southeast of the site had been amalgamated into a larger enclosure, with the southern part of the site being smaller enclosures, possible orchards and pasture fields. Between 1948 and 1955, a square building had been constructed at the northeast end of the site, fronting onto Mill Lane, shown as being enclosed within the current site boundary by 1961. At the western side of the site, the house and barns had been demolished and replaced with an occupation centre, and part of the northern range of barns had been modified, though the eastern end of the T-shape survived. By 1983 the northern part of the site was labelled council offices and council yard, and the occupation centre was marked Fernbank Special School, and had been extended to cover the eastern part of the site.

Within the buffer, by 1854 a railway line had been constructed to the east of the site, with Adwick Mill located directly north of the site. The basic road pattern was established by this date, with the centre of the town focused



around Village Street, which runs along the western boundary of the site. To the north of the site were fields, whilst to the south was the core of the town. Adwick Hall is marked on the 1854 map, but had been demolished by 1892. By 1966, the construction of houses had begun on Tenter Balk Lane, which by 1982 had expanded considerably northward.

Survival:

The site has been increasingly developed to the extent whereby the majority of the site contained buildings. A stone-built late 17th-century barn and dovecote survive in the northeast part of the site and are recorded as a heritage asset. It is probable that sub-surface deposits within the developed areas of the site have been truncated by the construction of buildings in the 20th century. Therefore, the potential for survival of archaeological deposits in the site is considered to be low, apart from within the yard area in the northern half, which has not been built over and has a moderate archaeological potential. The site is adjacent to a possible shrunken medieval village and it is possible that associated remains extend into the site.

Further investigations:

Further archaeological investigation may be required if the site is allocated for development. This should include an assessment of the significance of the standing historic barn and dovecote.

Significance:

The barn and dovecote could be considered to be of Local archaeological significance.

Aerial Photographs& Lidar Summary:

The 2002-2017 Google Earth aerial imagery showed the site as occupied by a range of buildings of different dates. The southern part of the site was occupied by school-type buildings, and a large Nissen-style hut is at the northeast corner of the site, with areas of tarmac hardstanding to the west. The northwest corner was occupied by smaller brick and stone buildings, at least one of which was shown in 1851. By 2018 a number of buildings relating to the former school in the southwest side of the site had been demolished. Street View shows a stone-built former barn and dovecote along the northern edge of the site towards the western end with an associated stone wall stretching further east and a later brick-built range to the west.

Photograph references:

Google Earth: 2002, 2003, 2008, 2009, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018. Street View 2011. LiDAR 2m DTM.

Photos transcribed by the Magnesian Limestone Mapping Project: RAF/CPE/UK/1880 5076 06-Dec-1946; RAF/543/9F22 0082 19-Jun-1957; OS/92255 0072 20-Jul-1992.

Statutory Designations Reference ID

Name Designation/ Grade

Site? Buffer?

1012935 Cross in the churchyard of St Laurence's Church, Adwick le Street SM Y

1151473 Church of St Laurence II* Y

1151474 Remains of Cross approximately 5 metres to south of porch of Church of St Laurence

II Y

1151475 Cholera Memorial against east wall of Chancel of Church of St Laurence

II Y

1314853 Mill building attached to Mill House and Tail rail tunnel arch beneath Mill House

II Y



SMR Record/event Reference ID

Name Details Site? Buffer?

00383/01 St Lawrence's Church, Adwick le Street

The church of St Lawrence shares Cantley's curious orientation, some 40 degrees to the north-east, and the surrounding field boundaries point in the same direction. There are four medieval cross slabs or fragments of slabs at the church; all with designs incised. It comprises a Norman nave and chancel with later medieval north aisle, chapel and west tower, all over-restored in 1862. Much restored Norman south door and remains of a window of the same date in the chancel. Most of the windows are Victorian.

Y

00384/01 Medieval churchyard cross, Adwick-le-Street

Renovated remains of churchyard cross. Y

00391/01 Medieval Moated Site, Adwick Le Street

Moat shown on the Tithe Commutation Map of 1884 - now a barely discernible depression in an arable field.

Y

02219/01 Post-Medieval Water Powered Corn Mill, Adwick-le-Street

Probably 1786 (date on house), altered. Rubble Magnesian limestone. 3 storeys. Rear - to left of wing is a tail-race tunnel (passing beneath the house). Interior - wooden platform for 4 sets of stones mostly in situ. 1st floor - chamfered, heavy scantling beams. 2nd floor - pattern-book queen-post trusses.

Y

03575/01 Post-Medieval Barn and Dovecote, Adwick-le-Street

At the north end of village street - late 17th century barn with dovecote in the southern gable.

Y

03672/01 Site of Adwick Hall, Adwick-le-Street

Adwick Hall (site of) shown on o.s. 1:10560 (1966). The hall was built in 1673 and demolished c.1866. The site, now covered by an ornamental park and bowling green, possibly replaced the moated site (PIN 00391). Formerly the home of the Washington family.

Y

03672/02 Adwick Hall Garden, Adwick-le-Street

Some traces of 18th century formal gardens can be seen in the present park, and remains of walled gardens.

Y

03673/01 Possible Shrunken Medieval Settlement, Adwick-le-Street / Bentley

The field containing the moated site is full of earthwork remains, perhaps representing structures (perhaps an SMV?). However, they have only been looked at from a distance and not in any detail.

Y

03674/01 Post-Medieval Ridge and Furrow, Adwick-le-Street

Triangular plot of land north of Miostel Farm contains ridge and furrow cultivation.

Y

ESY1551 Building survey of Adwick Mill

Photographic recording and production of a ground plan were made at Adwick Mill in March 1993.

Y

ESY1562 The Old Mill, Aldwick Le Street Watching Brief

The original floor levels were lowered in the presence of SYAFRU members who recovered fragments of pig jaw, leather shoe soles, a small ceramic jug, two pieces of door hinge and a decorated glass bottle. No other significant archaeological features were noted.

Y



SMR Historic Environment Characterisation Reference ID


HSY4914 Village Street (north end0, Adwick le Street, Doncaster

Villas/ Detached Housing Y Y

HSY5730 School and municipal buildings Adwick le Street, Doncaster

School Y Y

HSY148 Carcroft Common Industrial Estate Other Industry Y

HSY253 Ings, Carcroft Surveyed Enclosure (Parliamentary/ Private)

Y

HSY4299 Land South east of Adwick le Street, Doncaster Agglomerated fields Y

HSY4910 Lutterworth Drive, Adwick Le Street, Doncaster Private Housing Estate Y

HSY4912 Kingfisher Road, Adwick le Street, Doncaster Private Housing Estate Y

HSY4913 The Park, Adwick le Street, Doncaster Public Park Y

HSY4915 St Lawrence's Church, Adwick le Street, Doncaster

Religious (Worship) Y

HSY4916 Adwick Mill, Adwick le Street, Doncaster Water Powered Site Y

HSY4917 Land south west of Mill Brook, Adwick le Street, Doncaster

Valley Floor Meadows Y

HSY5728 The Paddock, Adwick le Street, Doncaster Private Housing Estate Y

HSY5729 Church Lane, Adwick le Street, Doncaster Terraced Housing Y



Allocation Reference:1052 Allocation Type: Housing Site Name: Stanley House and Rosemead House, Balby

Area (Ha): 0.89 NGR (centre): SE 5615 0088 Settlement: Doncaster Urban Area


Archaeological significance of site Negligible


Suitability of site for allocation No archaeological constraint

Summary

Within site Within buffer zone Scheduled Monument - - Listed Building - - SMR record/event -/- -/- Cropmark/Lidar evidence No Yes Cartographic features of interest Yes No Estimated sub-surface disturbance Extensive n/a



Allocation Reference: 1052 Allocation Type: Housing Site Name: Stanley House and Rosemead House, Balby



The SMR does not record any monuments, findspots or events within the site or buffer.

There are no Scheduled Monuments, Listed Buildings or registered parks and gardens within the site or buffer.

The Magnesian Limestone in South and West Yorkshire aerial mapping project did not record any features within the site. On the far southeast of the buffer is a medieval/post medieval clay pit defined as an earthwork. This area is also defined as an area of historic landfill.

Historic Environment Characterisation records the western part of the site as Rosemead Children's Home. The eastern part of the site, and stretching to the north and south is characterised as residential housing constructed in the late 19th century. There is no legibility of former land uses within the site. Directly north of the western part of the site is 1970s light industrial units, and in the east and west of the buffer are 1940s planned social housing estates. Again no former land use is legible. The far northern part of the buffer comprises the Balby historic core and the south is used as recreation grounds.

The area in the south of the buffer currently used as playgrounds is an area of historic landfill, former clay pits known as the Clayfield Estates.

Recent aerial imagery (2017) shows the site as two large areas of the concrete footings of demolished buildings. Parts of the western part of the site are currently covered with grass and trees. There is residential housing on all sides.


The 1854 OS map shows the site as within three fields directly west of what is now known as Tickhill Road. By 1903 three buildings had been constructed at the eastern side of the site which had become one plot. The buildings include two greenhouses or glass houses. The west of the site had one glasshouse constructed on its eastern edge and remained part of a larger field which ran up to Ashfield Road. The glasshouses had all been removed by 1930. The 1960 OS map shows the boundaries of the site as they stand today, Rosemead Nursey was present in the west side and there was a substantial house (apparently altered since 1937) and four outbuildings in the eastern side of the site. In 1976, the western building was labelled a children's home.

Within the buffer, the 1854 OS map shows the area as enclosed agricultural land, with the historic core of Balby to the north. By 1892 a sand pit had been established directly north of the site and housing with associated strip fields or allotments established directly south. By 1930 residential housing had been constructed directly north of the site along Ashfield Road and to either side of the eastern edge of the site, along Tickfield Road. By 1948 the residential streets directly west of the site had been established and Balby Brickworks were present in the south of the buffer. The brickworks had gone out of use by 1980.

Survival:

Buildings had been established in the east of the site by 1903 and which were further developed through the mid 20th century. The west of the site was not developed until the late 1950s. The construction of the buildings is likely to have disturbed any archaeological remains within this area, and potentially less disturbed areas of lawns are limited in area and may have been impacted by the surrounding development. The archaeological potential of the site is therefore deemed to be low.


Further archaeological investigations are unlikely to be required if the site is brought forward for development.

Significance:

Negligible.




Google Earth aerial imagery between 2002 and 2015 showed the former children's home as a C-shaped building in the western part of the site, with lawns to the north, west and south. The eastern part of the site contained a substantial former house, which had hard surfaced car parking areas to the west and east. A narrow rectangular outbuilding stood to the south of the house. By 2017 all the buildings on the site had been demolished leaving the hard standing areas. The western part of the site has some surrounding grassland. LiDAR imagery does not show any features of archaeological potential.

Photograph/Lidar references:

Google Earth: 2002, 2003, 2008, 2009, 2014, 2015 & 2017. Lidar 2m DTM.

Photos transcribed by the Magnesian Limestone Mapping Project: RAF/58/899 5148 19-Jun-1952



HSY5417 Woodfield Road, Balby, Doncaster Planned Estate (Social Housing) Y

HSY5552 Warmsworth Road, Balby, Doncaster Planned Estate (Social Housing) Y

HSY5559 Springwell Lane, Balby, Doncaster Playing Fields/ Recreation ground Y

HSY5560 Clayfield Industrial Estate, Balby, Doncaster Business Park Y

HSY5577 Springwell Lane, Balby, Doncaster Planned Estate (Social Housing) Y

HSY5811 Balby historic core, Balby, Doncaster Commercial Core-Suburban Y

HSY5992 Former St Christopher's Home, Balby, Doncaster

Workhouse/ Orphanage /Children's Home

Y

HSY5995 Tickhill Road, Balby, Doncaster Semi-Detached Housing Y Y

HSY5996 Rosemead Children's Home, Balby, Doncaster Workhouse/ Orphanage /Children's Home

Y Y

HSY5997 Light industrial building, Balby, Doncaster Other Industry Y



Allocation Reference: 1053 Allocation Type: Housing Site Name: Don View, Thellusson Avenue, Scawsby






Summary

Within site Within buffer zone Scheduled Monument - - Listed Building - - SMR record/event - 2 records/1 event Cropmark/Lidar evidence No Yes Cartographic features of interest No Yes Estimated sub-surface disturbance Extensive n/a



Allocation Reference: 1053 Allocation Type: Housing Site Name: Don View, Thellusson Avenue, Scawsby



The SMR does not record any monuments, findspots or events within the site. Two findspots and one event are recorded within the buffer. The findspots were of a Neolithic polished stone axe from a field to the south of the site, and a mid-16th-century coin of Henry VIII found in a garden at Copley Crescent to the north of the site. A watching brief during construction at the eastern side of the buffer did not identify any archaeological features.

No listed buildings, Scheduled Monuments or registered parks and gardens are located within the site or buffer.

One locally listed park is within the southwest part of the buffer, the wider estate of Cusworth Hall. This includes enclosed fields and plantations that formed part of the hall's wider setting and the associated hunting estate created in the early 19th century, and extends beyond the area that is designated as a grade II registered park.

The Magnesian Limestone in South and West Yorkshire Aerial Photographic Mapping Project does not record any features within the site or buffer.

Historic Environment Characterisation records the present character of the site and most of the northern part of the buffer as a modern housing estate. Other character zones within the buffer include further modern housing to the south and east, school playing fields to the west and agglomerated fields to the southwest, probably originating as piecemeal enclosure from medieval open field, but subsequent boundary loss has led to a loss of this character.

Recent aerial imagery (2018) shows the site as a vacant plot with scrub vegetation, which has been cleared of former buildings.


The 1854 OS map showed the site as part of a field. The southern boundary was marked by Long Plantation. The site had been developed by 1961, with a T-shaped building named Don View shown within the site. This was still extant in 1982.

Within the buffer, the 1854 OS map mainly showed fields. Field boundaries to the west and south of the site were slightly sinuous, suggestive of piecemeal enclosure from medieval open field. Long Plantation ran on a northeast-southwest alignment through the buffer to the immediate south of the site, marking the northern edge of former parkland or wider estate land associated with Cusworth Hall. By 1948, a housing estate was beginning to intrude into the northeast edge of the buffer. A housing estate was present to the north and northeast of the site by 1961, further developed by 1968. In 1968, school playing fields were shown to the west of the site. Further housing had been constructed to the south by 1982.

Survival:

The site was developed with a substantial institutional building by 1961, which was standing until 2015. The construction and demolition of the building are likely to have caused substantial sub-surface disturbance. Two findspots are recorded within the buffer, but both may have been casual losses and are not necessarily indicative of sustained human activity in the vicinity. The site is likely to have been in agricultural use from at least the medieval period prior to its development. The archaeological potential is considered to be low.


No further archaeological investigations are likely to be required if the site is brought forward for development.

Significance:

Negligible.




Aerial imagery from 2002-2015 shows the site occupied by modern flat-roofed buildings arranged in a T-shape, with a driveway and parking area to the north and a separate associated building to the east. By 2017, the buildings had been demolished and the site cleared. Scrub vegetation and rough grass had grown over the site by 2018. The buildings were shown as two-storey structures on Street View, of yellowish brick construction and an institutional appearance. Long Plantation still survives to the south of the site, with a footpath running through it. Lidar shows only the building platforms within the site, and a probable palaeochannel crossing the southern edge of the buffer, which is also visible as a cropmark on aerial imagery.


Google Earth 2002, 2003, 2008, 2009, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017 & 2018. Street View 2012. Lidar 2m DTM.



00453/01 Late Medieval Coin, Scawsby

Groat of Henry VIII (1544-47) from 84 Copley Crescent, Scawsby.

Y

03436/01 ?Neolithic Polished Stone Axe, Avenue Field, Sprotbrough

The butt of an axe made of greenish tuff, attributed to Group VI (Langdale). It has faceted side and facet over the butt.

Y

ESY1545 Watching Brief at 84 St David's Drive, Scawsby

A watching brief was conducted during the construction of a dwelling. No archaeological features were identified.

Y



HSY4928 Developments south of Barnsley Road, Scawsby, Doncaster

Private Housing Estate Y Y

HSY4296 Land around Scawsby Village, Doncaster Agglomerated fields Y

HSY4923 Between Barnsley Road and Roman Ridge, Scawsby, Doncaster

Semi-Detached Housing Y

HSY4929 Doncaster Met. Institute of Higher Education, Scawsby, Doncaster

University or College Y

HSY4930 Estate to the north of Cusworth, Doncaster Private Housing Estate Y



Allocation Reference:1054 Allocation Type: Housing Site Name: Harpenden, Dunscroft

Area (Ha): 2.04 NGR (centre): SE 6505 0883 Settlement: Hatfield - Stainforth


Archaeological significance of site Unknown

Historic landscape significance Uncertain


Summary

Within site Within buffer zone Scheduled Monument - - Listed Building - - SMR record/event - 5 records Cropmark/Lidar evidence No Yes Cartographic features of interest Yes Yes Estimated sub-surface disturbance Low n/a



Allocation Reference: 1054 Allocation Type: Housing Site Name: Harpenden, Dunscroft



The SMR records no events or monuments within the site. Five findspots are recorded within the buffer, though two appear to record the same Roman coin, found in a garden to the west of the site. Two findspots of Roman pottery also come from gardens off Broadway, whilst a Roman beehive quern was found near the northern edge.

No Scheduled Monuments, listed buildings or registered parks are located within the site or buffer.

The Magnesian Limestone in South and West Yorkshire Aerial Photographic Mapping Project does not record any features within the site. Within the buffer, fragmentary traces of Iron Age to Roman field boundaries are present to the northeast and southwest of the site.

Historic Environment Characterisation records the present character of the site as public parkland, an area of undeveloped land that lies between 20th-century housing developments. Within this area are important fragments of an older landscape, notably a historic hedgerow depicted on the 1825 enclosure plan and possibly reflecting the southern edge of the medieval Hatfield Deer Park. Character types within the buffer comprise a variety of modern private and social housing, schools and a miners' welfare recreation ground. There is little legibility of former landscape types within the buffer due to the concentration of modern development.

The site currently comprises an irregular strip of land in between several streets of modern housing development. Harpenden Drive runs through the site at one point. The boundary around most of the site is marked with hedgerows and mature trees, though in some areas it is unenclosed.


The site is shown on the 1854 OS map as fields, with boundaries marked by hedgerows. Most of the eastern boundary was present as a long north-south aligned field boundary at that date, which had a drainage ditch running along it labelled 'Parks Drain'. A track ran east-west through the southern part of the site, labelled Bridle Road, and merged with Coppice Lane to the east; these lanes may mark the southern edge of a former medieval deer park. The western boundary of the site was created by 1930, when the site was a narrow strip left between gardens and the boundary to the east, still crossed by east-west field boundaries. Some gardens extended into the western edge by 1962, but most had been reduced to the current extent by 1974.

Within the buffer zone, the 1854 OS map showed fields surrounding the site. There were few changes until 1930, when Broadway had been laid out and houses to either side of it were built or under construction. By 1960, the Miner’s Welfare Recreation Ground had been constructed to the north of the site, with a football ground and tennis courts. By 1982, housing developments to the east and south of the site had begun, with Harpenden Drive laid out and some structures present. This development continued, and by 2002, the entire eastern and southern sides of the site had also been fully developed.

Survival:

The site has probably been under cultivation in the past, which may have caused some truncation of below-ground remains; and development in the surrounding area may also have caused some disturbance. The potential for the survival of unrecorded buried archaeology is uncertain, but Iron Age to Roman fields and artefacts have been recorded in the vicinity. The possible deer park boundary does not appear to continue through the southern part of the site, but the western boundary is at least partially on the line of a field boundary and drainage ditch shown on mid-19th-century mapping, which may date to the disparkment of the deer park.


Further archaeological investigations may be required if the site is brought forward for development.

Significance:

Unknown. Remains associated with Iron Age to Roman activity could be considered to be of Local to Regional



significance depending on their extent, nature and condition. Remains associated with the deer park boundary would likely be considered to be of Local significance.


Aerial imagery from 2002-2015 shows the site as an irregular area of land, surrounded by modern housing. The northern end is largely rough grass and scrub vegetation, whilst a wider area to the northwest of Broadwater Drive appears more maintained. An electricity substation is located at the southwest end of this area. A modern road runs through the southern part of the site, with the southeast tip being a maintained grass verge adjacent to housing. Lidar coverage shows uneven ground in the northern half of the site, but no clear earthwork features.


Google Earth 2002, 2003, 2008, 2009 & 2015. Street View 2009. Lidar 1m DTM.

Magnesian Limestone aerial mapping project: MAL/60427 81731 21-Jun-1960; MAL/60427 81729 21-Jun-1960.



00672/01 Roman Pottery Sherds, Dunscroft

Roman sherds found in the garden of 178 Broadway, Dunscroft.

Y

00675/01 Roman Pottery Sherds, Dunscroft

Roman (3rd century) sherds from 215 Broadway, Dunscroft. Y

00705/01 Romano-British Beehive Quern, Dunscroft

From the south east of the Broadway Hotel, Dunscroft. Y

01033/01 Roman Coin, Hatfield

Sestertius of Marcus Aurelius A.D. 164-5 from garden of 216 Broadway, Dunscroft.

Y

04316/01 Roman Coin, Broadway, Hatfield

Bronze sestertius of Marcus Aurelius (164-5 AD), found in back garden of No. 216 Broadway, October, 1968, about 2 feet below the surface. [Probable duplicate record of 01033/01]

Y



HSY4691 Greenspace fragment in Dunscroft/ Hatfield, Doncaster

Public Park Y Y

HSY4437 Hatfield Deer Park (putative location), Hatfield, Doncaster

Surveyed Enclosure (Parliamentary/ Private)

Y

HSY4684 Broadway, Dunscroft, Doncaster Planned Estate (Social Housing) Y

HSY4686 Hatfield High School, Hatfield, Doncaster School Y

HSY4687 Miners Welfare Sports Grounds, Dunsville, Doncaster

Playing Fields/ Recreation ground Y

HSY4688 Late twentieth century estates, Dunscroft, Doncaster

Planned Estate (Social Housing) Y

HSY4692 Former Heath Field, Hatfield, Doncaster Private Housing Estate Y

HSY4693 Broad Water Drive estates, Dunscroft, Doncaster

Private Housing Estate Y



Allocation Reference:1055 Allocation Type: Housing Site Name: Cook Street and Truman Street, Bentley






Summary

Within site Within buffer zone Scheduled Monument - - Listed Building - - SMR record/event - - Cropmark/Lidar evidence No Yes Cartographic features of interest Yes No Estimated sub-surface disturbance Extensive n/a



Allocation Reference: 1055 Allocation Type: Housing Site Name: Cook Street and Truman Street, Bentley





One locally listed park is within the northern part of the buffer, Bentley Park, an early 20th-century Miners' Welfare recreation ground created in 1923.

The Magnesian Limestone in South and West Yorkshire Aerial Photographic Mapping Project does not record any features within the site. Post-medieval ridge and furrow is plotted in the north and northwest buffer.

Historic Environment Characterisation records the site as part of an area of terraced housing constructed in the early 20th century within an area of burgage-type plots associated with the historic core of Bentley. Other character zones within the buffer include modern housing estates to the west, east and northwest, further terraced housing to the southwest, a school and urban commercial core to the south and southeast, and Bentley Park to the north.

Recent aerial imagery shows the site as a vacant plot cleared of buildings.


The 1854 OS map shows an L-shaped building within (or partially within) the site, ranging along the west side and heading east through the centre, probably barns or stables, with a house at the southern side and a garden and field or croft to the north. The 1892 map suggests that the western barn range was probably west of the site, and a pump was located within the yard on the western side of the site. By 1930, Truman Street had been laid out along the western side boundary and the building at the southern side demolished. It had been replaced by a detached house. A building that may have been the remains of the northern barn range ran through the centre of the site, with an L-shaped range of possible cottages or outbuildings in the northern part of the site. By 1959, the building on the street frontage was labelled Council Office, with the buildings to the centre and rear shown as a linked reverse C-shape range, labelled Council Yard. The buildings at the north side had been demolished by 1992, but the central structure was still extant.

Within the buffer, 1854 OS map shows buildings in the historic core of Bentley to the east, west and south of the site. Fields were to the north, with those immediately north being characteristic of crofts or burgage-type plots behind houses fronting onto Cooke Street. Roads present within the buffer included Bruslingholme Lane, Pipering Lane, High Street, Cooke Street (unlabelled), Finkle Street, Askern Road and Arksey Road. The more detailed 1892 map showed the buildings to the east and west as predominantly houses and cottages, with Methodist Chapels and a brewery in the eastern part of the buffer, and a school, public house and old workhouse to the southeast. Buildings to the west seemed to be largely farms and associated outbuildings. By 1906, one of the chapels was no longer labelled. New housing had been built in and around the village by 1930, as both infill and new estates. A miner's welfare park was shown at the northern edge of the buffer, with tennis courts, bowling green, bandstand, sand pits and fountains labelled. Further housing had been built at the northeast edge of the buffer by 1956. A depot was shown to the east of the site by 1959, and the school to the south had been extended. A sports ground was shown at the western edge of the buffer at that date. No obvious major changes were shown by 1992, though only less detailed mapping is available after 1959.

Survival:

The site was redeveloped in the first half of the 20th century, when a possible vernacular building on the Cooke Street frontage was demolished. It was replaced by municipal offices and depot buildings, one of which may have contained part of an earlier barn or stable range. These were all demolished between 2015 and 2017 and the site cleared. Construction and demolition of the buildings is likely to have caused substantial sub-surface disturbance. Though the site is within the historic core of Bentley, the potential for encountering significant archaeology is



considered to be low.



Significance:

Negligible.


Aerial imagery from 2002-2015 shows the southern and eastern parts of the site occupied by buildings, including a probable house at the southern end and possible warehouses, offices or shops in the central and eastern parts. The northern and northwest dies were occupied by parking areas. By 2017 the site had been cleared of buildings.


Google Earth 2002, 2003, 2008, 2009, 2013, 2014, 2015 & 2017.

Photographs transcribed by the Magnesian Limestone mapping project: RAF/CPE/UK/1879 1103 06-Dec-1946; MAL/60427 81661 21-Jun-1960.



HSY5026 Truman Street, Bentley Old Village, Doncaster Terraced Housing Y Y

HSY4973 Geometric Section, Bentley New Village, Doncaster


HSY5027 Minden Court / Moat Hills Court, Bentley, Doncaster


HSY5028 Bentley Park (historic settlement area), Doncaster

Public Park Y

HSY5029 Park Road, Bentley, Doncaster Planned Estate (Social Housing) Y

HSY5030 Westerngales Way, Bentley, Doncaster Private Housing Estate Y

HSY5031 New Street, Bentley Old Village, Doncaster Terraced Housing Y

HSY5032 High Street, Bentley Old Village, Doncaster Commercial Core-Suburban Y

HSY5033 New Street infill housing, Bentley Old Village, Doncaster


HSY5035 High Street (north end), Chapel Street and Millgate, Doncaster

Commercial Core-Urban Y

HSY5036 Cooke Street School, Bentley, Doncaster School Y

HSY5037 Bentley Miners Welfare Park, Doncaster Public Park Y

HSY5041 Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Catholic Primary School, Bentley, Doncaster

School Y

HSY5042 Finkle Street / Arksey Lane, Doncaster Terraced Housing Y

HSY5150 Old Hall Road, Bentley, Doncaster Semi-Detached Housing Y

HSY5152 Halmshaw Terrace, Bentley, Doncaster Private Housing Estate Y



Allocation Reference:1056 Allocation Type: Housing Site Name: Gattison/Tornedale, Rossington

Area (Ha): 3.50 NGR (centre): SK 6187 9806 Settlement: Rossington





Summary

Within site Within buffer zone Scheduled Monument - - Listed Building - - SMR record/event - - Cropmark/Lidar evidence No Yes Cartographic features of interest No Yes Estimated sub-surface disturbance Partial n/a



Allocation Reference: 1056 Allocation Type: Housing Site Name: Gattison/Tornedale, Rossington

Area (Ha): 3.50 NGR (centre): SK 6187 9806 Settlement: Rossington


The SMR does not record any monuments, findspots or events within the site or buffer zone.

There are no Scheduled Monuments, listed buildings or registered parks and gardens within the site or buffer.

The Magnesian Limestone in South and West Yorkshire Aerial Photographic Mapping Project did not record any features within the site. Air raid shelters were plotted at the northwest edge of the buffer from a 1948 photograph.

Historic Environment Characterisation records the present character of the site and the northeast part of the buffer as Rossington Tornedale School, built in the mid-20th century on former agricultural land that may have been part of a deer park in the medieval period, based on cartographic and field-name evidence. It is possible that Gattison Lane marks part of the former park boundary, which may have been associated with the Draw Dikes manor. Further character zones within the buffer comprise another school to the northwest and a sports ground to the north, with the remainder of the buffer composed of planned social housing estates in New Rossington, developed from the early 20th century onwards as a colliery village associated with Rossington Main Colliery.

Recent aerial imagery (2017) shows the western and central parts of the site as playing fields (possibly disused), with single-storey quadrangle of institutional buildings (possibly part of a school) in the eastern part, fronting onto Gattison Lane.


The 1854 OS map shows the site as part of an area of narrow strip fields with curving boundaries suggestive of enclosure from open field. The area was called Park Field. Two field boundaries had been removed by 1892. By 1962, the current north, west and south boundaries of the site were established, and in 1967, the site was shown as two fields, the eastern one a playing field associated with the school to the northeast. In 1976, the site was a single area of playing fields. Gattison House had been constructed in the eastern part of the site by 1989.

Within the buffer, the 1854 map depicted Gattison Gate (now Lane) to the southeast of the site, Grange Lane bridle road to the northwest and West End Lane to the north. The Great Northern Railway line ran through the northeast part of the buffer on a southeast to northwest alignment, with a station to the east of the line. The historic core of Rossington was located to the northeast of the railway, just outside the northeast edge of the buffer. The remainder of the buffer was strip fields. By 1930, the colliery village of New Rossington was depicted to the west of the site, with schools shown at the northwest edge of the buffer and sports grounds and miner's welfare hall to the north. By 1948, housing was under construction to the immediate north of the site. Tornedale Primary School was shown to the northeast of the site in 1962, when housing surrounded the south and east sides of the site. A further school had been built to the north by 1976. An electrical engineering works was shown at the north edge of the buffer at that date. A telephone exchange had been built to the southeast of the site by 1989.

Survival:

The buildings of Gattison House are single storey, and may not have substantial foundations, but are likely to have caused some truncation to sub-surface deposits within their footprint and immediate vicinity. The archaeological potential in this area is considered to be low. The central and western parts of the site have been in use as school playing fields since at least the 1970s, and were previously agricultural fields. There does not appear to have been much landscaping of the site to make the playing field, therefore the potential for the survival of unrecorded buried archaeology within this area is considered to be moderate. No monuments have been recorded within the buffer, but Romano-British field system remains have been excavated a short distance to the southeast of the buffer, and there is the potential for similar remains to extend into the site.





Significance:

Unknown.


Aerial imagery from 2002 shows the majority of the site as a playing field surrounded by housing to the north, west and south, with a quadrangle of institutional buildings surrounded by lawns in the eastern part of the site. Further school buildings were to the north. The playing fields appeared maintained from 2002-2012, with a new boundary established in the northeast corner where the site had been divided off from fields to the north at the latter date. Another enclosure had been created to the west of the school buildings by 2014. By 2015, the main part of the playing field was shown as rough grass. Street View shows the school buildings to be single storey with pitched roofs, with tarmac parking areas to the east and south. Lidar shows the building platform at the eastern side of the site, but no earthwork features within the playing fields.


Google Earth 2002, 2003, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2012, 2014, 2015 & 2017. Street View 2009. Lidar 2m DTM.



HSY4730 Gattison Lane, New Rossington, Doncaster School Y Y

HSY4713 Central Drive, New Rossington, Doncaster Planned Estate (Social Housing) Y

HSY4720 Clay Flat Lane, New Rossington, Doncaster Planned Estate (Social Housing) Y

HSY4722 Gattison Lane, New Rossington, Doncaster Planned Estate (Social Housing) Y

HSY4725 Grange Road, New Rossington, Doncaster School Y

HSY4732 Welfare facilities, New Rossington, Doncaster Sports Ground Y

HSY4749 Station Road, Rossington, Doncaster Private Housing Estate Y



Allocation Reference: 1058 Allocation Type: Housing Site Name: Land off Westminster Drive, Dunsville

Area (Ha): 3.36 NGR (centre): SE 6394 0771 Settlement: Hatfield Stainforth





Summary

Within site Within buffer zone Scheduled Monument - - Listed Building - 2 SMR record/event - 1 record/2 events Cropmark/Lidar evidence Yes Yes Cartographic features of interest No Yes Estimated sub-surface disturbance Low n/a



Allocation Reference: 1058 Allocation Type: Housing Site Name: Land off Westminster Drive, Dunsville



The SMR does not record any monuments or events within the site. One monument and two events are recorded within the buffer. The monument is a linear earthwork of unknown function parallel with Thorne Road within Wyndthorpe Park. The events comprise geophysical surveys and a trial trench evaluation at two locations at Sandall Grange. The geophysical surveys recorded probable ridge and furrow cultivation remains and a group of features that proved on excavation to be of non-archaeological origin.

No Scheduled Monuments or listed buildings are recorded within the site. Two grade II listed buildings are located within the buffer, Wyndthorpe Hall, and a milepost west of the hall entrance.

There is one locally listed park within the buffer, the grounds of the early 19th-century Wyndthorpe Hall to the south of High Street, including formal gardens around the house and a lawn sloping down to parkland at the southwest.

The Magnesian Limestone in South and West Yorkshire Aerial Photographic Mapping Project recorded levelled ridge and furrow remains within the site, on an east-west orientation. Further ridge and furrow was recorded to the north within the buffer zone, as well as fragmentary cropmarks of a probable ditched trackway and field boundaries likely to be of Iron Age to Roman date.

The Historic Environment Characterisation records the present character of the site and part of the buffer as the putative extent of Hatfield medieval deer park, which retains the character of enclosure of the land following disparkment. Further character zones within the buffer include: private parkland associated with Wyndthorpe Hall; drained wetland enclosed from West Moor and Barnby Dun Common in the late 18th and early 19th centuries with some visibility of the contemporary drainage layout; and 20th-century residential developments with fragmentary visibility of the 18th-century enclosure landscape.

Recent aerial imagery (2015) shows the site as a field in arable cultivation.


The 1853 OS map shows the site as part of two rectangular fields to the west of Park Lane Farm, with probable hedged boundaries, with the current southern boundary of the site shown at that date. The east-west aligned boundary running through the site towards the north end was shown as a drain on the 1892 map. This pattern remained unchanged in 1980. A wind-pump was shown along the southern boundary, possibly just outside the western edge of the site, in 1930 and on later maps. By 1992, the boundary dividing the site into two fields had been removed, and it formed part of a larger field.

Within the buffer, the 1853 map showed farm buildings to the east and south of the site and Park Lane Cottages to the southeast. Park Lane Hall and park were shown to the south of Park Lane. Park Lane Hall had been renamed Wyndthorpe Hall between 1906 and 1930. This was labelled as a residential nursery in 1962. By 1948, houses were under construction in rows to either side of High Street to the east of the site. By 1992, housing development to the rear of the High Street had expanded to the eastern edge of the field within which the site is located, with further development within the field, up to the east edge of the site, undertaken by 2002. Wyndthorpe Hall had become a residential home for the elderly by 1992.

Survival:

The field has been drained and under arable cultivation since at least the mid-19th century, which may have impacted on buried archaeological remains through truncation and desiccation. Below the level affected by ploughing, the potential for the survival of unrecorded archaeological remains is considered to be moderate; however, evaluation and geophysical survey on the sites of the ponds to the west of the site did not record any significant archaeological features or deposits.





Significance:

Unknown.

Aerial Photographs & Lidar Summary:

The 2002 aerial coverage shows the site as a field under arable cultivation, with a housing estate to its immediate east, and ploughed land to the north and south. The northern boundary was established by that date, post-dating the 1992 map coverage. A pond was being excavated in the field to the west at that date, completed by 2008. The former boundary running close to the north edge of the site was visible as a cropmark, along with several parallel, widely spaced northwest-southeast aligned cropmarks of uncertain origin. These appear too widely spaced to represent ridge and furrow, and could be associated with drainage. The fields to the north and west had been planted with trees by 2008, in a regular arrangement suggestive of deliberate plantations rather than regenerating scrub. This area was shown as quite extensively wooded by 2015. The site has remained in arable cultivation.

Lidar coverage shows faint parallel lines aligned north-south within the field. This may be associated with ridge and furrow, though is aligned at roughly 90 degrees to that recorded as cropmarks on 1940s aerial photographs. The lines are more closely spaced than the cropmarks visible on 21st-century aerial photographs and are likely to relate to modern ploughing.


2002, 2003, 2008, 2009 & 2015. Lidar data files SE6307, SE6407, SE6308, SE6408.



Site? Buffer?

1151580 Wyndthorpe Hall II Y

1314827 Milepost approximately 40 metres to west of entrance to Wyndthorpe hall

II Y



01826/01 Unclassified Linear Earthwork, Dunsville

Linear earthwork - date and function unknown. Lies within wood running parallel to Thorne Road. (Dunsville)

Y

ESY480 Geophysical Survey of land at Sandall Grange

In October 2003 a geophysical survey was undertaken on land at Sandall Grange. No anomalies of likely archaeological origin were identified. A series of parallel positive linear anomalies aligned north to south are probably caused by ridge and furrow ploughing.

Y

ESY1371 Evaluations at Sandall Grange Lagoons, Dunsville, Doncaster

Geophysical survey was undertaken ahead of construction of an irrigation lagoon near Dunsville, Doncaster. A small cluster of features in the northeastern portion of the survey area were of possible archaeological origin. These were investigated by trial trenching, and they proved non-archaeological in origin. It appears the area may have been waterlogged since the last glaciation.

Y







Y Y

HSY4490 Barnby Dun Common, Barnby Dun, Doncaster Surveyed Enclosure (Parliamentary/ Private)

Y

HSY4509 West Moor, Armthorpe, Doncaster Drained Wetland Y

HSY4731 'Park Lane' / High Street, Dunscroft. Private Housing Estate Y

HSY4733 'Saints' Estate, Hatfield, Doncaster Private Housing Estate Y

HSY4779 Wyndthorpe / Park Lane Hall, Doncaster Private Parkland Y



Allocation Reference: 1059 Allocation Type: Housing Site Name: Cherry Grange, Pickering Road, Bentley






Summary

Within site Within buffer zone Scheduled Monument - - Listed Building - 1 SMR record/event - - Cropmark/Lidar evidence No Yes Cartographic features of interest No Yes Estimated sub-surface disturbance Partial n/a



Allocation Reference: 1059 Allocation Type: Housing Site Name: Cherry Grange, Pickering Road, Bentley



The SMR does not record any monuments, findspots or events within the site or the buffer zone.

There are no Scheduled Monuments, listed buildings or registered parks and gardens within the site. One grade II listed milepost on Askern Road is recorded in the southwest part of the buffer.

The Magnesian Limestone in South and West Yorkshire Aerial Photographic Mapping Project recorded post medieval ridge and furrow within the buffer zone, to the east and northeast of the site.

Historic Environment Characterisation records the site and the western part of the buffer as a late 20th-century planned social housing estate. The site was previously in agricultural use but there is no legibility of the former piecemeal enclosure patterns. Other character zones within the buffer include playing fields to the east, regenerated land at the former Bentley Colliery to the north, and a variety of modern housing types to the south. To the east is woodland.

Recent aerial imagery (2017) shows the site occupied by two to three buildings, one larger structure at the east side and possibly two flat roofed buildings abutting to the west. The roofs were in a state of disrepair, indicating the buildings were disused at that date.


No features were shown within the site on Thomas Jefferys’ 1771 map of Yorkshire. The site formed part of a field to the southwest of Daw Lane Plantations by 1841. The southern boundary of the site had been established by 1930, as the rear of gardens fronting onto Victoria Road, but the site remained undeveloped in 1979. By 1985, Cherry Grange has been built within the site, to the layout visible on 2017 aerial imagery, with the east, north and west boundaries established by that date.

Within the buffer zone, Askern Road was shown to the west of the site on the 1771 Jefferys’ map. On the 1854 OS map, the site was largely surrounded by fields, with Daw Lane Plantations shown to the northeast, Daw Lane to the southeast and Sandall Nooking Drain towards the north edge of the buffer. No change had occurred within the buffer zone by 1906, but by 1930, Bentley Colliery had been established at the northeast edge of the buffer and semi-detached housing had been constructed to the south of the site, with a church to the southeast and a public house to the west. A football ground had been created in the southeast part of the buffer zone by 1961, with further housing built to the west of the site during the 1970s. By 1980, the Bentley Colliery spoilheap had extended into the northern part of the buffer zone. Land reclamation had begun in this area by 1985.

Survival:

The site is occupied by a large building, probably housing, built in the first half of the 1980s. There are lawned garden areas to the east, south and west of the building and a drive and parking area to the north. Prior to this, the site was part of a field. The building is likely to have caused substantial disturbance to sub-surface deposits within its footprint. The garden areas may be generally less disturbed. No archaeological monuments or findspots are recorded within the buffer, but Iron Age to Roman cropmarks are present a short distance to the west. The potential for encountering archaeological remains within areas of the site outside the footprint of the current building is considered to be low to moderate.



Significance:

Unknown.




Aerial imagery from 2002 shows three linked buildings within the site, the larger eastern building having a pitched roof, and being probably two storeys in height, with a walled garden enclosure to the north.. This was joined to a similar height western building with a cat-slide roof by a lower linking block. A third building, possibly single storey, was located to the northwest. The buildings were within a lawned garden area with parking at the north side, and the plot was largely surrounded by tall hedges. The same layout was shown in 2017, but the garden was overgrown with rough grass, and the building roofs were degrading. Lidar does not show any earthwork features within the site, but does show preserved ridge and furrow within the Daw Lane Plantations to the northeast.


Google Earth 2002, 2003, 2008, 2009, 2013, 2014, 2015 & 2016. Lidar 1m & 2m DTM.

Photographs transcribed by the Magnesian Limestone mapping project: RAF/CPE/UK/1880 3072 06-Dec-1946.



Site? Buffer?

1191834 Milepost opposite northern junction with Rosendale Road II Y



HSY4995 Estate to the north west of Bentley, Doncaster Planned Estate (Social Housing) Y Y

HSY144 Former Bentley Colliery Deep Shaft Coal Mine Y

HSY4967 Askern Road, Bentley New Village, Doncaster Terraced Housing Y

HSY4973 Geometric Section, Bentley New Village, Doncaster


HSY4996 Daw Lane Plantation, Bentley, Doncaster Plantation Y

HSY4997 Playing fields, Victoria Road, Bentley, Doncaster




Allocation Reference: 1060 Allocation Type: Housing/Employment Site Name: Land Between Hatfield, Stainforth & Dunsville



Archaeological significance of site Regional/Unknown/Negligible


Suitability of site for allocation Major/Uncertain/No archaeological constraint

Summary

Within site Within buffer zone Scheduled Monument - - Listed Building - 3 SMR record/event 9 records/4 events 13 records/9 events Cropmark/Lidar evidence Yes Yes Cartographic features of interest Yes Yes Estimated sub-surface disturbance Extensive/Partial/Low n/a



Allocation Reference: 1060 Allocation Type: Housing/Employment Site Name: Land Between Hatfield, Stainforth & Dunsville



The SMR records four monuments, five findspots and four events within the site. Three recorded findspots of Bronze Age spearheads are recorded in the southern part of the site, found in fairly close proximity during peat cutting or digging of drainage ditches to the northeast of Hatfield. Two scatters of Roman artefacts found during fieldwalking at the northern end of the site, northeast of Stainforth, were thought to mark the site of settlements. This was supported by subsequent archaeological evaluation, including geophysical survey and trial trenching, which indicated that field systems and at least two settlement sites are present within this area, with copious amounts of pottery and evidence for metalworking. Two of the events relate to these investigations. Ashfield Bank, which runs along the northern edge of the site, is a flood bank built as part of Vermuyden's project to drain Hatfield Chase, commissioned by King Charles I in 1626. In the central part of the site, adjacent to Cuckoo Lane, a geophysical survey identified a small enclosure containing a circular feature, possibly a roundhouse, as well as other anomalies that might be archaeological features. The further two events within the site and buffer comprised desk-based research and a borehole survey along the route of the Hatfield Regeneration Link Road, which did not identify any deposits with palaeoenvironmental potential, and trial trenching around the Hatfield Colliery site which did not identify significant archaeological or palaeoenvironmental remains.

Thirteen monuments are recorded on the SMR within the buffer, three of which are also within the site and are discussed above. The others comprise late Devensian and Holocene sediment sequences identified in borehole surveys at Fishlake and Hatfield Colliery, the findspot of a Neolithic axehead near Barnby Dun, scatters of Roman pottery sherds from Stainforth and Hatfield, Iron Age to Roman field systems at Stainforth, and an undated field system at Bootham Lane, Hatfield, the possible site of a medieval grange at Dunscroft, and the site of the pit-head buildings at Hatfield Main Colliery, which was sunk in 1911-1917. There are nine events recorded within the buffer, four of which also extended into the site and are discussed above. The other five events included geophysical survey and a watching brief at Bootham Lane that identified only post-medieval field boundaries, with no significant archaeological remains, a palaeoenvironmental augur survey between Fishlake and Stainforth that identified the Holocene sediment sequence recorded as a monument, and geophysical survey and trial trenching to the northeast of Stainforth, which recorded Iron Age to Roman field boundaries and settlement, just outside the eastern edge of the site. A watching brief on an adjacent site did not identify any significant archaeology.

There are no Scheduled Monuments within the site or the buffer zone. Three grade II listed buildings are located within the buffer: the headstocks at Hatfield Colliery in the western part of the buffer, and Lock Cottages and Townend Farm, both to the northeast of Stainforth and west of the northern part of the site.

The Magnesian Limestone in South and West Yorkshire Aerial Photographic Mapping Project recorded patches of fragmentary field boundaries, which could be of Iron Age to post-medieval date in the central west part of the site, and post-medieval ditches and retting ponds in the southern part of the site. The extent of Hatfield Colliery was plotted to the west of the site with a small area extending into a small part of the site, and associated spoil heaps were plotted within the site at Thwaites and Poltontoft, east of Stainforth. Fragmentary remains of probable settlement enclosures, field boundaries and trackways are recorded within the buffer to the northeast and southwest of the site, with a linear bank of possible medieval to post-medieval date to the east, cut by the M18. A small quarry pit and Second World War air raid shelters are plotted at Parks in the southwest buffer, and ditches of uncertain date at the southeast. Areas of medieval to post-medieval ridge and furrow or drainage features are plotted across much of the site and buffer.

The Historic Environment Characterisation records the present character of the majority of the southern half of the site as Surveyed Enclosure with a much-eroded boundary pattern following agglomeration of fields in the 20th century. A modern colliery spoil tip from Hatfield Main Colliery is also located at the northern end of this area, and a small detached part of the west edge of the site is classed as part of Hatfield Main Colliery. A modern Service Station covering part of the eastern edge. The northern part of the site is characterised as agglomerated



fields, created through the loss of 19th-century enclosure boundaries.

Further character zones within the buffer include surveyed enclosure from former open fields and commons, drained wetland of post-medieval to modern date, valley floor meadows, modern motorway and trunk road junctions, sports and recreation grounds, modern traveller community site, schools, industrial estates and premises, a golf course and various types of housing estates, largely of modern date.

One area of historic landfill is recorded within the buffer, at Bootham Lane, north of the southern part of the site.

Recent aerial imagery (2017) shows the northern part of the site as largely fields in arable cultivation, with the exception of a spoil heap that is covered in scrub woodland. Another spoil heap is shown just to the east of this part of the site, possibly undergoing landscaping or regrading. The northern edge of this part of the site is bounded by a canal and the southern side by housing. The part of the site between Kirton Lane and the railway is a spoil heap associated with the former Hatfield Colliery. To the south of the railway the site is again largely arable fields, some with hedged boundaries. Hard standing caravan bases are shown in one of the fields at the southwest edge of the site, whilst a field to the north this contains a small group of buildings.


The 1854 OS map shows the site as mainly fields in a variety of patterns indicating different types and dates of enclosure. The South Yorkshire Railway had been constructed through the site’s central area by that date. The Park Drain and Pissy Beds Drain ran through the southern part of the site, the Wormley Bridge Drain through the area south of Kirton Lane, and Stainforth Drain along the southern edge of the northern part, each on a roughly east-west alignment. Lanes within the site included Ramskir and Potmancroft Lanes in the northern part, Hewill Lane, Nettleholme Lane, Crook Tree Lane, and Cuckoo Lane in the southeast side, and 'Pudding & Dip Lane' and Bootham Lane in the south central area. Pudding and Dip Cottage was shown adjacent to the lane of the same name, and appears to have been the only building within the site at that date. It had been demolished by 1894. A small area of old quarrying was shown to the west of Cuckoo Lane at that date (labelled 'old clay pit' in 1907), and some field boundaries had been removed to create larger fields, though mostly the pattern within the site was unchanged. A small pumping station was shown adjacent to Cuckoo Lane and Parks Drain in 1930. By 1948, a spoil heap was being created at Poltontoft in the northern part of the site, associated with Hatfield Colliery. Railway lines and a small area of spoil were shown within the Thwaites area to the south of Kirton Lane, with associated buildings at the northern edge of this area by 1962. Five detached cottages were shown within the southwest part of the site at that date, south of Parks Drain, and a small area labelled 'rubbish tip' was shown adjacent to Bootham Lane within the southern part of the site, north of works building that had an adjacent mound. The works was outside the site, but the mound is partly within it. The rubbish tip had expanded to cover most of a field by 1982. By 1992, the Thwaites area was covered by an extensive spoil heap, whilst the heap at Poltontoft was no longer shown, though a dismantled railway line was present along its western side.

Hatfield Main Colliery, sunk in the western part of the buffer between 1908 and 1917, was in full production by 1921. Several railway lines connected the colliery with the main railway immediately to the south and east. These were clearly shown on the 1932 OS map, which also marked mineral railways to the northeast of the pit. Two sewage works, a pumping station and a series of allotments were shown in 1948. An aerial ropeway for transporting coal had been constructed to the northeast of the colliery by 1956. The area beneath the ropeway formed one of two spoilheaps by 1966. Further spoilheaps were shown on the 1975 and 1984 OS maps. The colliery’s mineral railways had been dismantled by the latter date.

Within the buffer zone, Ashfield Bank was constructed as a flood defence by Cornelius Vermuyden in 1628. The Stainforth and Keadby Canal was opened at the north of the site in 1802 and was shown with Dunston Hill Swing Bridge on the 1841 OS map. A field labelled 'tile kilns' was shown just to the east of the southwest part of the site in 1854, with Bootham Farm to the north. A small area of buildings at Dunscroft were extant to the south of the site at that date, and further buildings at Stainforth to the southwest of the northern part of the site. Stainforth Station was shown just to the north of the southwest tip of the site. Extensive housing developments shown in the western and southern parts of the buffer zone from the 1920s may have been built principally for miners employed at Hatfield Main. The M18 had been constructed in the eastern part of the buffer zone by 1975, and a poultry packing station was shown to the west of the northern end of the site by 1992.

Survival:

Evaluations in the northern part of the site have indicated a high potential for the survival of buried archaeology across the majority of this area, though the area below the spoil heap may have been damaged.



Due to the development of Hatfield Main Colliery and its associated spoilheaps, the likely survival of any previously unrecorded heritage assets in the Thwaites part of the site is considered to be low to negligible.

There is a lack of recorded deep ground disturbance across much of the southern part of the site, apart from a small former clay pit, a rubbish tip, and small areas of disturbance associated with buildings at the west side. Apart from in the disturbed areas, there is a moderate to high potential for the survival of buried archaeology.


Given the known presence of a complex of buried archaeological remains on the northern part of the site, further consideration of the physical impact on these would be required to establish capacity for development.

The colliery spoil heap occupying the central part of the site is likely to have caused disturbance to buried deposits through topsoil stripping prior to dumping, and through compression of the ground surface, therefore no intrusive archaeological investigation is likely to be required in this area. The impact of development on the setting of the listed headstocks at Hatfield Colliery to the west of the site will be a wider heritage concern.

Given the little apparent disturbance in the majority of the southern part of the site, further archaeological investigation is likely to be required to establish the extent of survival and significance of buried archaeology in this area.

Significance:

The northern part of the site has demonstrated the survival of Romano-British settlement and agricultural remains considered to be of at least regional and potentially of national significance.

The buried archaeological resource in the central part of the site is considered to have a negligible archaeological significance.

Within the southern part of the site, the archaeological significance is currently unknown.


Aerial imagery from 2002 to 2017 shows the Thwaites part of the site as a spoil heap associated with the adjacent Hatfield Main Colliery. An older spoil heap, covered with scrub vegetation, is within the northern part of the site, surrounded to the east and west by arable fields. The remainder of the site is occupied principally by a mixture of pasture and arable fields, with areas of scrub. The houses in the southwest part of the site had been demolished by 2008, and a small caravan park established in the southern part of this area. A small group of buildins was also shown just to the south of Stainforth station. Several cropmark features are visible in the arable fields, including probable post-medieval field boundaries and drainage features in the southern part of the site and linear features of uncertain date in the area west of the M18 and in the northeast part of the site. Hatfield Colliery closed in 1015, but many of its pit-head buildings had been removed by 2009. A motorway service station had been built adjacent to the eastern side of the site by 2002, part of its access road extending into the site.

Lidar shows some disturbance in the southwest part of the site associated with former houses and the extant caravan park. The former rubbish tip off Bootham Lane is visible as a substantial mound, and the former clay pit is clear as disturbed ground. A linear hollow parallel to Cuckoo Lane and south of the pumping station may indicate a pipeline. A similar area of hollows is visible to the north of Crook Tree Lane and south of the clay ppit, of uncertain origin. Towards the northern end of the site, the spoil heaps at Thwaites and Poltontoft are visible as substantial mounds. No clear traces of ridge and furrow are visible in any of the fields where this has previously been plotted, and this is likely to have been plough levelled.


Google Earth: 2002, 2003, 2008, 2009 & 2015. Lidar 2m DTM.

Photographs transcribed by the Magnesian Limestone mapping project:

Ridge and furrow: RAF/CPE/UK/1879 1085 06-Dec-1946; RAF/CPE/UK/1880 4059 06-Dec-1946; RAF/CPE/UK/1880 4061 06-Dec-1946; RAF/541/31 3421 18-May-1948; RAF/541/31 3423 18-May-1948; RAF/541/31 4420 18-May-1948; RAF/541/31 4422 18-May-1948.



Other features: RAF/541/31 3423 18-May-1948; RAF/541/31 4422 18-May-1948; RAF/58/469 5112 02-Jun-1950; MAL/60427 81772 21-Jun-1960; MAL/71047 0208 03-May-1971; SE6612/1 NMR 728/72 29-Jul-1974; MAL/74062 0062 29-Nov-1974; MAL/76072 0111 22-Aug-1976; MAL/76074 0037 05-Nov-1976; MAL/80008 0022 04-Apr-1980.


Name Designation Site? Buffer?

1151599 Town End Farmhouse Grade II Y

1286416 Lock Cottages Grade II Y

1430590 No.1 and No.2 headstocks, Hatfield Colliery Grade II Y



00460/01 Dunscroft Grange, or Dunscroft Abbey, Dunscoft near Hatfield

Monastic grange, probably dependent on Roche Abbey, founded around the 14th century? Precise location doubtful. "Dunscroft Abbey" demolished c.1964 was a brick building dated 1611, of two storeys with a central range, two cross-wings and a porch forming an E-shaped plan.

Y

00561/01 Roman Coin, Stainforth

Antoninus of Galerius found in garden of 15 Mayfield Road, Stainforth (A.D. 293-305) .

Y

00701/01 Neolithic axe head, Kirk Sandall / Barnby Dun

Part of a perforated stone axe hammer, broken across the perforation.

Y

01065/01 Middle Bronze Age Spearhead, Hatfield

Middle Bronze Age looped and socketed spearhead found during turf cutting.

Y

01070/01 Roman pottery scatter, Stainforth

Scatter of Romano-British coarse sherds on ploughed field "probably 2nd-3rd century".

Y

01880/01 Site of Possible Romano-British Settlement, near Stainforth

Probable Romano-British settlement site known from surface scatter of pot, daub and rubble in ploughed field. Adjacent to and likely to be engulfed by pit tip. See 05653 for subsequent evidence from archaeological evaluations at this site.

Y

02736/01 Middle Bronze Age Spearhead, Hatfield

Middle Bronze Age tip of bronze spearhead with fresh break at the point.

Y

02895/01 Iron Age or Roman-British Field System, Stainforth

Iron Age/Romano-British field system cropmarks. [Nothing is plotted within this immediate area by the Magnesian Limestone mapping project.]

Y

03443/01 Romano-British Pottery Scatter, Stainforth

Romano-British pottery scatter at Stainforth. Y

03445/01 Romano-British Pottery Finds, Hatfield

20 sherds of grey ware Romano-British pottery found at Hatfield.

Y

03446/01 Bronze Age Socketed Spear Head, Hatfield

Part of a ?Bronze Age spearhead with traces of timber shaft found in Hatfield.

Y

04018/01 Iron Age/Romano-British Field

An extensive field system is visible on aerial photographs. Geophysical survey in 2009 and 2011 identified extensive and complex remains of a field systems and probable settlement

Y Y



System, Stainforth enclosures extending over c12 hectares. A programme of trial trenching was conducted in 2012. Remains correlated well with the results of the geophysical survey with additional discrete features identified. An assemblage of pottery, as well as small amounts of tile, a coin and a small amount of metal working slag were recovered. Pottery dating indicates that the main focus of activity was the 2nd century to the 3rd or 4th.

04411/01 Hatfield Main Colliery

Site of Hatfield Main colliery. Sunk 1911-17. Original brick office block and other buildings. Baths by Kemp (1933).

Y

04503/01 Field System of Unknown Date at Bootham Lane, Hatfield

Geophysical works carried out prior to development identified evidence of ploughing and field boundaries in each survey block.

Y

04556/01 Ashfield Bank Post-Medieval Flood Bank, Stainforth

A flood bank built as part of Vermuyden's project to drain Hatfield Chase, commissioned by King Charles I in 1626. The dam extended from Stainforth, at some distance from the Don, running along the eastern bank in a northerly direction, to protect the land lying to the southwest from floods. Approximately two miles remain of the original six, which would have extended to Turnbridge.

Y Y

4973 Holocene Sediment Sequences, Fishlake

An environmental study identified an area of land with good potential for the recovery of environmental data in the form of sediment sequences, to the southeast of Fishlake. These sequences have the potential to identify buried soils and former land surfaces.

Y

5239 Late Devensian and Holocene Sediment Sequences, Hatfield Colliery, Stainforth

A borehole survey undertaken at Hatfield Colliery, Stainforth, identified a sequence of Late Devensian sands and gravels overlain by alluvial deposits dated to the Holocene period. There is a chance that the alluvial deposits seal archaeological deposits.

Y

05487 Probable enclosure and linear features near Hatfield, Doncaster

A geophysical survey in 2004 identified a number of probable archaeological features. These included what appears to be a small enclosure containing a fairly centred circular feature.

Y

05653 Romano-British settlement and field system, north-east of Stainforth

Geophysical surveys identified evidence for enclosures, field boundaries and discrete features across a wide area on either side of a large colliery spoil heap, which is likely to overlie further remains. Trial trenching to the west of the spoil heap recorded settlement features, field boundaries, post-holes, gullies and pits, along with associated pottery indicating a 2nd-3rd century date for the main phase of activity. A few sherds of Iron Age pottery suggest an earlier origin, though the nature of this earlier phase is yet to be established.

Y Y

ESY97 Fields north east of Stainforth, Doncaster

One field walked by SYCAS staff and some first year university students in 1985.

Y Y

ESY123 Hatfield Regeneration Link Road, Doncaster

A desk-based assessment identified that alluvial deposits survived at this site and concluded that there was a good potential for previously unrecorded prehistoric and Romano-British to be sealed by the alluvium. A borehole survey did not identify any deposits with palaeoenvironmental potential, and the mapping of the area as alluvium over Sherwood Sandstone appears to be at odds with the nature of the sequences identified during this survey. Field-walking in 2004 found small quantities of probably unworked flints in two fields.

Y Y

ESY251 Bootham Lane In October 1995 a geophysical survey was conducted at Bootham Lane. The results indicated the presence of old field boundaries with evidence of ploughing, possibly ridge and

Y



furrow.

ESY282 Hatfield Colliery Seventeen trial trenches were excavated around the northern and western perimeter of the development area. Thirteen of these were devoid of archaeological features. The only archaeological feature identified during the evaluation was a field boundary shown on the 1826 Stainforth enclosure map. No significant archaeological or palaeoenvironmental remains were revealed and no further archaeological work was recommended.

Y Y

ESY515 Bootham Lane In September 2006 a watching brief was conducted at Bootham Lane. No sub-surface archaeological deposits or structures were impacted upon by the foundation trenches. Plough scars probably of recent date were observed.

Y

ESY762 Raised bank adjacent the River Don near Fishlake and Stainforth, Doncaster

An auger survey and scientific dating of a sediment sequence was conducted in February and March 2009. The results of 13 hand auger cores were used to select two locations for mechanical coring. OSL dating was conducted on one of the cores and radiocarbon dating on the other. The aim of the project was to characterise the sequence in order to identify any potential land surfaces/buried soils, and locate the nature and extent of any waterlogged organic deposits.

Y

ESY1474 Evaluations on land north-east of Stainforth

Various events undertaken by a variety of units carried out periodically, between 2008 and 2014, including a sedimentological study which identified a low palaeoenvironmental potential, two geophysical surveys recording extensive Iron Age to Roman settlement and agricultural features, and evaluation trenching that identified surviving Romano-British settlement features and artefacts.

Y Y

ESY1476 Land northeast of Stainforth

Geophysical survey identified extensive and complex remains of late Iron Age to Romano-British field systems. Trial trenching results correlated well with those of the geophysical survey, with a number of additional features also identified. Pottery and a small amount of brick and tile, a coin and metal working debris were recovered. Pottery dating suggects that the main focus of activity was from the 2nd to 3rd or 4th centuries.

Y

ESY1477 Kirton Lane, Stainforth

A watching brief on a site adjacent to an area containing known remains of Romano-British settlement and field systems did not identify any significant archaeology.

Y



HSY4450 Doncaster (North) Services, M18 J5, Hatfield, Doncaster

Modern Motorway Services Y Y

HSY4455 'Ash Fields', Stainforth, Doncaster Modern Agglomerated fields Y Y

HSY4469 Hatfield Main Colliery, Stainforth, Doncaster Modern Deep Shaft Coal Mine Y Y

HSY4470 Colliery tip, south of Hatfield Main Colliery, Stainforth, Doncaster

Modern Spoil Heap Y Y

HSY4433 Former open fields west of Stainforth, Doncaster

Industrial to Modern Surveyed Enclosure (Parliamentary/Private)

Y


Post-Medieval to Modern Surveyed Enclosure (Parliamentary/Private)

Y

HSY4451 J5 M18, Hatfield, Doncaster Modern Motorway and Trunk Road Junctions

Y



HSY4452 River Don between Fishlake and Stainforth, Doncaster

Modern Valley Floor Meadows Y

HSY4454 Huddle Grounds / Stainforth Ings, Doncaster Modern Drained Wetland Y

HSY4457 Kingswood Golf Course (Pissy Beds Common), Doncaster

Modern Golf Course Y

HSY4464 Land around Kirton Lane and Hatfield Road, Thorne, Doncaster


Y

HSY4472 Land to the north of Hatfield, Doncaster Industrial to Modern Surveyed Enclosure (Parliamentary/Private)

Y

HSY4479 Former Carrs and Commons east of Hatfield, Doncaster

Industrial to Modern Drained Wetland

Y

HSY4483 Well preserved section of 'Firth Field', Hatfield, Doncaster


Y

HSY4601 'Rhodes Fair Acres' Stainforth, Doncaster Modern Romany or other Traveller Community site

Y

HSY4684 Broadway, Dunscroft, Doncaster Modern Planned Estate (Social Housing)

Y

HSY4694 Housing within the former 'West Field', Hatfield, Doncaster

Modern Semi-Detached Housing Y

HSY4695 Hund Oak estate, Hatfield, Doncaster Modern Semi-Detached Housing Y

HSY4696 Station Road, Hatfield, Doncaster Modern Villas/ Detached Housing Y

HSY4697 Dunscroft historic Core, Hatfield, Doncaster Modern Semi-Detached Housing Y

HSY4698 Abbey Walk Caravan Site, Hatfield, Doncaster Modern Prefabs Y

HSY4699 North of Station Road between Dunscroft and Stainforth, Doncaster

Modern Private Housing Estate Y

HSY4700 Hop Hills Industrial premises, Dunscroft, Doncaster

Modern Other Industry Y

HSY4701 The Oval, Duncroft, Doncaster Modern Planned Estate (Social Housing)

Y

HSY4706 Hatfield Manor Middle School. Doncaster Modern School Y

HSY4707 Factory, Cuckoo Lane, Hatfield, Doncaster Modern Other Industry Y

HSY4785 Stainforth model village, Doncaster Modern Planned Estate (Social Housing)

Y

HSY4790 Thorne Road, Stainforth, Doncaster Modern Planned Estate (Social Housing)

Y

HSY4797 Measham Drive, Stainforth Doncaster Modern Semi-Detached Housing Y

HSY4870 Poultry Packing Station, Stainforth, Doncaster Modern Other Industry Y

HSY4871 Historic Core, Stainforth, Doncaster Modern Semi-Detached Housing Y

HSY4886 Recreation Ground, East Lane, Stainforth, Doncaster

Modern Playing Fields/Recreation ground

Y

HSY4889 Kirton Lane Primary School, Stainforth, Doncaster

Modern School Y

HSY4890 Mayfield Avenue, Stainforth, Doncaster Modern Semi-Detached Housing Y

HSY5692 Stainforth Carrs industries, Doncaster Modern Other Industry Y



Allocation Reference:1062 Allocation Type: Housing Site Name: Conisbrough Methodist Church, Chapel Lane

Area (Ha): 0.08 NGR (centre): SK 5128 9850 Settlement: Conisbrough


Archaeological significance of site Regional


Suitability of site for allocation Major archaeological constraint

Summary

Within site Within buffer zone Scheduled Monument - - Listed Building 1 4 SMR record/event 9 records/2 event Cropmark/Lidar evidence No No Cartographic features of interest Yes Yes Estimated sub-surface disturbance Extensive n/a



Allocation Reference:1062 Allocation Type: Housing Site Name: Conisbrough Methodist Church, Chapel Lane



The SMR does not record any monuments, findspots or events within the site. Nine monuments and two events are recorded within the buffer. The majority of these are at the northern edge of the buffer, and include the church, which has early medieval origins and was a minster church for a large diocese. There are a number of monuments and findspots associated with the church, including probable early medieval burials, carved stone cross fragments and medieval grave slabs/covers. A timber-framed house is recorded at Church Street, at the northwest edge of the buffer. A Roman coin was found to the northeast of the site, and the suggested route of a Roman road runs along the line of Doncaster Road, the southeast. The two recorded events were both in the northern part of the buffer, one of which was an evaluation at Low Road, which recorded no features of archaeological interest. The other event relates to evaluation and excavation at Wellgate, mostly outside the northwest edge of the buffer, which recorded features of Roman and later date.

There is one listed building within the site, Conisbrough Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, built in 1876 of orange pressed brick with sandstone dressings and a tiled roof. It is in an Italianate style, and has a characteristic Methodist arrangement with the hilly terrain utilised to provide a three-storey building with school accommodation beneath the double-height chapel with upper gallery. The interior includes an impressive rostrum platform with semi-circular communion rail in front. One grade I listed building (St Peter's Church) is located at the northern edge of the buffer, with three grade II listed buildings also within the buffer, two at the northern edge and the Red Lion public house towards the southern end.

The Magnesian Limestone in South and West Yorkshire aerial mapping project did not record any features within the site. An area of medieval or post-medieval ridge and furrow cultivation was plotted at the southwest edge of the buffer.

Historic Environment Characterisation records the present character of the western half of the site and part of the western and northern buffer as an area of terraced housing of largely late 19th-century date, whilst the eastern part of the site and buffer are defined as a modern planned housing estate. Further character zones within the buffer include an industrial estate at the southern side and a distribution centre on the site of a fireclay works at the southeast edge, the commercial core of Conisbrough, church and vernacular cottages to the north and northwest edge, and various types of late 19th- to 20th-century housing to the north, east, west and southwest.

An area of historic landfill is recorded in the southeast part of the buffer, on the site of a former fireclay pit.

Recent aerial imagery (2015) shows the Methodist Chapel in the western half of the site, with an overgrown garden plot to the east.


The 1854 OS map shows the site as part of two small fields or gardens to the east of Henwell Lane. By 1892, the current site boundaries were shown, with the Methodist Chapel shown fronting onto Henwell Lane and a yard area behind, with a small structure to the southeast of the chapel, possibly an outbuilding. No graveyard was labelled at the site. By 1930, a Sunday School had been built within the site, in the area east of the chapel, and Henwell Lane had been renamed Chapel Lane.

Within the buffer, the 1854 map shows small fields or gardens immediately to the north and south of the site, with Henwell Lane to the west and buildings within the historic core of Conisbrough to the northwest. A stream ran through the eastern part of the buffer, with further buildings at the eastern edge. In 1893, a label 'Hen Well' was shown to the south of the site, possibly referring to the buildings fronting onto the lane., with Old Hill lane shown to the north, and a curving street called New Hill just to the north of that, with a confectionary works immediately north. Houses were shown fronting onto Henwell Lane and March Gate to the south of the site, and extending south along Holywell Lane. A Primitive Methodist Chapel was shown between Old Hill and New Hill. A fireclay works and brick kilns were shown at the southeast edge of the buffer. Further housing had been built in



the western part of the buffer by 1902, and a club was shown just to the northwest of the site by 1930, labelled Working Mens Club in 1962. At the latter date, further housing had been built in the southwest part of the buffer. Some of the housing along Chapel Lane to the south of the site had been demolished by 1969. Housing had been built to the east of the site by 1987.

Survival:

The site contains a grade II listed Methodist chapel. The yard to the east appears to be raised above the adjacent ground to the south and north. A Sunday School occupied the yard area from the 1930s-1980s, which may have impacted on below ground remains in this area. No graveyard was labelled within the site on historic mapping, and though it is not certain whether any burials were interred at the site, the construction of the Sunday School in the yard suggests it is unlikely. The potential for the survival of buried archaeology is considered to be low.


Archaeological recording of the listed building is likely to be required if any alterations are planned. Further archaeological investigation of the buried archaeological resource is unlikely to be required if the site is brought forward for development.

Significance:

The chapel is grade II listed and therefore considered to be of at least Regional archaeological significance.


Aerial imagery from 2002 shows the Methodist chapel at the western side of the site, with a hard-surfaced yard to the east, surrounded by hedges. The former Sunday School in this area had been demolished by that date. The yard appears to be raised above the adjacent land and had an entrance from the chapel. By 2007, the yard was covered with rough scrub vegetation. Street View from 2009 shows the chapel as two storey on the west, street-front elevation, and three to the east, with apparent terraces stepping down to the yard to the rear. No detailed Lidar is available for the site, and the 2m DTM does not show any details within the site.


Google Earth 2002, 2003, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2014 & 2015. Street View 2009.

Photographs transcribed by the Magnesian Limestone aerial mapping project: RAF/542/77F21 0003 28-Oct-1954.



Site? Buffer?

1151534 The Red Lion Public House II Y

1192787 Church of St Peter I Y

1192845 The Priory (Offices of Local Authority Department) II Y

1314840 The Old Hall Restaurant II Y

1424608 Conisbrough Wesleyan Methodist Chapel II Y



00201/01 Church of St Peter, Conisbrough

St Peter's is probably the oldest church in South Yorkshire. It embodies extensive remains of a Saxon minster church of probably 8th century date. In the later 12th century the Saxon building was remodelled, with the nave and chancel extended eastward in the 14th and 15th centuries. Many features were

Y



lost during Victorian restoration, but the exterior is still largely a product of the 15th century remodelling.

00202/01 Anglo-Saxon Period Cross Fragment, Conisbrough

Fragment of a Saxon cross in the south chapel, dated to the late 10th century. A fragment of what appeared to be a second cross shaft, with a roll moulding at each angle, was built into the east wall of the south aisle.

Y

00203/01 Norman 12th Century Coped Tomb Chest, Conisbrough

Elaborate Romanesque tomb-chest, now at the east end of the south aisle, dated 1140-1160 by Butler. The coped lid bears a series of medallions enclosing mounted knights in combat, winged beasts and the signs of the zodiac.

Y

01024/01 Roman Coin Find, Conisbrough

Roman coin - as of Vespasian (AD 71-73) from field behind Post Office in 1963

Y

01175/01 Medieval Timber Framed House, Church Street Conisbrough

Timber- Framed House (G.S. Coe & Son, Shoe Repairers), with remains of one truss visible at the north end of the building.

Y

02008/01 Relief at Conisbrough Church

Relief sculpture depicting a figure wearing a long flowing robe, sitting upon a bench or sedile, built into the east wall of the porch of Conisborough Castle (internally). It is likely to be 12th-century in a Romanesque style rather than Roman in date.

Y

02068/01 Medieval Grave Cover, Castle Walk, Conisbrough

Upper part of a small 12th century slab built into wall on west side of Castle Walk, south east of 'The Priory'.

Y

02269/01 Pre-Norman burial, Conisborough Church

A possible late Anglo-Saxon charcoal burial was found below Conisbrough Church, though it may be later medieval. A second burial could be any date prior to the 8th century.

Y

04914 Roman Road; Brough to Doncaster via Templeborough

Suggested route of a Roman period road entering South Yorkshire in the southwest from Brough (Derby), travelling north-east towards the Roman fort at Templeborough and then towards Doncaster.

Y

ESY3 Evaluation on Land off Low Road, Conisbrough

A geophysical survey carried out in advance of construction of a car park highlighted several anomalies, but when these were investigated, they turned out to be of a modern origin i.e. land drains and dumps of stone.

Y

ESY398 Archaeological Trial Trenching and Excavation at Wellgate

In 2002 trial trenching and excavation were carried out in advance of development. Archaeological remains dating from the Roman period onwards were revealed. The earliest activity comprised a substantial cut feature set with a number of wooden structures including a fence, stake alignment and track. The only dating evidence was from Roman pottery dating to the 2nd and 4th centuries AD. There was also medieval activity dating to the 11th and 12th centuries.

Y



HSY5457 Holywell Lane, Chapel Lane, Conisbrough, Doncaster

Terraced Housing Y Y

HSY5459 March Gate, Conisbrough, Doncaster Planned Estate (Social Housing) Y Y

HSY5349 St Peter's Church Conisbrough, Doncaster Religious (Worship) Y

HSY5355 Castle Hill villas, Conisbrough, Doncaster Villas/ Detached Housing Y

HSY5372 Park Road, Conisbrough, Doncaster Semi-Detached Housing Y

HSY5373 March Vale Rise, Conisbrough Private Housing Estate Y



HSY5388 Site of 'Ashfield Fire Clay Works', Conisbrough, Doncaster

Distribution Centre Y

HSY5448 March Street, West Street and Waverley Avenue, Conisbrough, Doncaster

Terraced Housing Y

HSY5449 Conisbrough Commercial Core, Conisbrough, Doncaster


HSY5450 High Street / Waverly Avenue, Conisbrough, Doncaster

Villas/ Detached Housing Y

HSY5451 Church Street, Conisbrough, Doncaster Vernacular Cottages Y

HSY5452 Low Road / Willow Street, Conisbrough, Doncaster

Terraced Housing Y

HSY5458 Holywell Road Industrial area, Conisbrough, Doncaster

Other Industry Y



Allocation Reference:1063 Allocation Type: Housing Site Name: Land At The Talisman, Chestnut Grove

Area (Ha): 0.19 NGR (centre): SK 5076 9808 Settlement: Conisbrough-Denaby





Summary

Within site Within buffer zone Scheduled Monument - - Listed Building - - SMR record/event - 1 record Cropmark/Lidar evidence No Yes Cartographic features of interest Yes Yes Estimated sub-surface disturbance Partial n/a



Allocation Reference: 1063 Allocation Type: Housing Site Name: Land At The Talisman, Chestnut Grove



The SMR does not record any monuments, findspots or events within the site. One monument is recorded within the southern part of the buffer, the supposed route of a Roman road from Templeborough to Doncaster, which is theorised to run along the approximate line of Sheffield Road.

No Scheduled Monuments, listed buildings or registered parks and gardens are recorded within the site or buffer.

The Magnesian Limestone in South and West Yorkshire aerial mapping project did not record any features within the site. Areas of post-medieval ridge and furrow cultivation were plotted in the buffer to the east and southeast of the site from photographs taken in the 1940s.

Historic Environment Characterisation records the present character of the site and the north and west parts of the buffer as planned housing estates developed in the second half of the 20th century. Other character zones within the buffer include a sports ground to the east, a former tip to the southeast, modern villas and detached housing and surveyed enclosures to the south, a cemetery to the southwest.

There is one area of historic landfill is recorded in the southeast part of the buffer, named Kearsley Lane. No details of the site were recorded.

Recent aerial imagery (2018) shows the site as a vacant lot, cleared of buildings.


The 1854 OS map shows the site as part of a large field to the north of Sheffield Road. By 1892, the site was within a smaller enclosure north of Rock House and south of, or possibly containing, a row of small buildings, possibly terraced cottages. Ellershaw Lane was present to the immediate east of the site. Between 1957 and 1962, Chestnut Grove had been extended along the northern edge of the site, and the cottages had been demolished, with a public house shown in the site. This was named the Talisman in 1975, at which date the current southern boundary was shown.

Within the buffer, the 1854 map sows fields to the north, northeast, west and south, with Sheffield Road shown as turnpike road in the southern part of the buffer. Holy Well Hill and small limestone quarries were within the eastern part of the buffer, north of the road. By 1892, some housing had been built along Sheffield Road, including the detached villa Rock House to the south of the site, a terraced name Lime Grove to the southeast, and a pair of semi-detached houses named Clifton View towards the west edge of the buffer. By 1902, a cemetery with a mortuary chapel had been laid out at the southwest edge of the buffer, with more terraced housing to the northeast of the site and allotment gardens to the south of Rock House and in the northern part of the buffer. By 1948, a row of probable houses was shown to the immediate west of the site, and new housing estates were under construction at the northern edge of the buffer, and by 1957 the site was nearly surrounded by housing. A bungalow had been built to the south of the site by 1975.

Survival:

The site is currently a vacant lot, but the central area was occupied by a public house from 1962 to 2017. It is possible that this had a beer cellar, and the building appears to have been partly cut into the natural slope of the site, which may have disturbed sub-surface deposits within its footprint. The areas around the building may be less disturbed, but are likely to have been impacted by the development of the site and demolition of the buildings. A row of terraced cottages was recorded within the northern edge of the site in 1893, the footings of which may survive as buried features. A Roman road is thought to run to the south of the site. Within the footprint of the building, the archaeological potential is considered to be negligible. Within the surrounding yard and garden areas, the potential is low.




Further archaeological investigations are unlikely to be required if the site is brought forward for development.

Significance:

Negligible.


Aerial imagery from 2002-2017 shows the site occupied by a substantial public house building, with a hard surfaced yard to the north and east, parking to the south and a garden area to the west. By 2018, the buildings had been demolished and the site was shown as cleared. Street View imagery showed the pub as a central two-storey building of orange-red brick with single storey wings to the east and west. It was operating as a restaurant in 2011. The lawned garden to the west was surrounded by a metal fence. The site sloped slightly from north to south, with the building partially cut into the slope.


Google Earth 2002, 2003, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2014, 2015, 2017 & 2018. Street View 2011.

Photographs transcribed by the Magnesian Limestone aerial mapping project: RAF/541/35 4018 19-May-1948; RAF/541/170 3235 21-Sep-1948.





Y



HSY5358 Mid-twentieth century social housing estates, Conisbrough, Doncaster

Planned Estate (Social Housing) Y Y

HSY4207 Park Lane, Conisbrough, Doncaster Surveyed Enclosure (Parliamentary/ Private)

Y

HSY5372 Park Road, Conisbrough, Doncaster Semi-Detached Housing Y


HSY5374 Cricket Ground south of Conisbrough, Doncaster

Sports Ground Y

HSY5454 Sheffield Road Conisbrough, Doncaster Cemetery Y

HSY5455 Sheffield Road, Conisbrough, Doncaster Villas/ Detached Housing Y

HSY5456 Former tip, Sheffield Road, Conisbrough, Doncaster




Allocation Reference:1064 Allocation Type: Housing Site Name: Land Off Howbeck Drive, Edlington

Area (Ha): 0.06 NGR (centre): SK 5316 9836 Settlement: Edlington





Summary

Within site Within buffer zone Scheduled Monument - - Listed Building - - SMR record/event - - Cropmark/Lidar evidence No No Cartographic features of interest No No Estimated sub-surface disturbance Extensive n/a



Allocation Reference: 1064 Allocation Type: Housing Site Name: Land Off Howbeck Drive, Edlington

Area (Ha): 0.06 NGR (centre): SK 5316 9836 Settlement: Edlington





Historic Environment Characterisation records the current character of the site and the majority of the buffer as part of a later 20th-century planned social housing estate, with no legibility of former piecemeal enclosures. Other character zones within the buffer include surveyed enclosure at the west and southwest edges, allotment to the northeast and eastern edges and a school playing field to the southeast. An artificial lake and regenerated scrubland at the north end of the buffer are on the site of a former brick works and clay pit.

Recent aerial imagery (2017) shows the site as a vacant plot, with a tree at the west end and hardcore surface in the rest of the area. It is bounded to the north and west by Howbeck Drive and to the east by Bower Vale.


The 1854 OS map shows the site as part of a field. Between 1962 and 1972, the northern part of Howbeck Drive was laid out and the site was occupied by two semi-detached houses containing eight residences, possibly apartments. These were still shown in 1994.

Within the buffer, the 1854 OS map shows fields, mainly suggestive of piecemeal enclosure from medieval open field. The Howbeck Dike ran through the northwest and western sides of the buffer, and the largely unenclosed Conisbrough Common was at the very western edge. The common had been enclosed into regular fields by 1892. The 1930 OS map showed the LNER Gowdall and Braithwell railway line running across the northwest edge of the buffer, and a clay pit just outside to the north. A housing estate and allotment gardens extended into the eastern edge of the buffer at that date. In 1956, a claying was show to the south of the railway at the northern edge of the buffer, and schools had been built just outside the southeast edge. The clay pit had expanded by 1962, when allotment gardens were shown to its east. By 1972, housing had been built around the site, mainly as rows of terraces and blocks of probable apartments similar to those within the site. The clay pit was disused and water-filled at that date. By 1983, the estate had extended southwards.

Survival:

The site was occupied by two-storey buildings from the 1970s to 2003, and had been cleared of buildings by 2007. The construction and demolition of the buildings is likely to have caused substantial sub-surface disturbance. The archaeological potential is considered to be negligible.



Significance:

Negligible.


Aerial imagery shows a pair of semi-detached houses within the site, with small enclosed gardens to the south and a grass verge and footpaths on the other sides. The buildings had been demolished by 2007, when the site was shows as covered by a spread of earth or demolition rubble, which had grassed over by 2008. By 2017, it



appeared to have been levelled and covered with tarmac or hardcore, possibly as a parking area. A mature tree survives in a verge area at the western end of the site. It is unclear why just this pair of houses was demolished, as the site is within an estate of similar buildings, the rest of which are still standing.


Google Earth 2002, 2003, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2014, 2015 & 2017. Street View 2009.



HSY5643 Howbeck Drive, Edlington, Doncaster Planned Estate (Social Housing) Y Y

HSY4195 Common Road, Conisbrough, Doncaster Surveyed Enclosure (Parliamentary/ Private)

Y

HSY4196 Edlington Common, Edlington, Doncaster Surveyed Enclosure (Parliamentary/ Private)

Y

HSY5645 Carr Road, Edlington, Doncaster Artificial Lake Y

HSY5653 Howbeck Dike scrub, Edlington, Doncaster Regenerated Scrubland Y



Allocation Reference: 1066 Allocation Type: Housing Site Name: 1 Spa Terrace, Askern

Area (Ha): 0.58 NGR (centre): SE 56225 13787 Settlement: Askern





Summary

Within site Within buffer zone Scheduled Monument - - Listed Building - - SMR record/event - 1 event Cropmark/Lidar evidence No Yes Cartographic features of interest No Yes Estimated sub-surface disturbance Low n/a



Allocation Reference: 1066 Allocation Type: Housing Site Name: 1 Spa Terrace, Askern

Area (Ha): 0.58 NGR (centre): SE 56225 13787 Settlement: Askern


The SMR does not record any monuments, findspots or events within the site. One event is recorded within the buffer, comprising evaluation trenching on land near Market Place, Askern. This did not reveal any archaeological remains.

There are no Scheduled Monuments, listed buildings or registered parks within the site or buffer.

The Magnesian Limestone in South and West Yorkshire aerial mapping project did not record any features within the site. A colliery and former brick and tile pits were plotted in the west and northwest areas of the buffer from photographs taken in the 1980s-90s, and ridge and furrow of probable post-medieval date was photographed at the northern edge in the 1940s.

Historic Environment Characterisation records the current character of the site and most of the eastern half of the buffer as drained wetland enclosed in the early 19th century from the former Norton Common. Other character areas within the buffer include the site of Askern Main Colliery at the western edge, a late 19th-century church and vicarage to the west of the site and the urban commercial core of Askern and a public park around Askern Lake to the south, late 19th-century villas and detached houses and 20th-century planned housing estates at the southeast edge, and a modern plantation to the northwest.

Recent aerial imagery (2015) shows the site as an area of rough grass and scrub vegetation.


The 1854 OS map shows the main part of the site as part of two fields. The proposed access lane runs through an area also shown as fields By 1893 the main part of the site was part of a single field. The eastern site boundary was established by 1932, with the western site boundary shown in 1961, by which date the site was labelled 'allotment gardens'. The route of the access lane was within a single large field by this date. Several small sheds were shown within the allotments by 1977. No substantial changes were shown in 1986.

Within the buffer, the 1854 OS map shows the historic core of Askern to the south and southwest, with hotels and spa baths depicted, and a lake. The Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway line ran to the east of the site, with Askern Station to the southeast. The area to the north and east were fields, with Askern Quarry depicted to the northwest. St Peter's Church and vicarage had been constructed to the west of the site by 1893, by which date Askern Quarry appeared to be disused. The 1932 map shows terraced housing under construction to the south and west of the site, and a line of allotment gardens to the immediate east. Askern Main Colliery had been built at the western edge of the buffer, and further housing was shown between High Street and the colliery and to the east of the railway line. Further housing had been built to the west by 1961. The railway station was disused by 1977.

Survival:

The site appears to have been fields and allotment gardens from at least the mid-19th century. Cultivation may have caused slight disturbance of sub-surface deposits, but in general the potential for the survival of buried remains is considered to be moderate to high. No archaeology has been recorded within the buffer, so the potential for the presence of archaeological remains is unknown.



Significance:

Unknown.




Aerial imagery from 2002-2015 shows the site as part of an area of rough grass and scrub vegetation, no longer in use as allotments. Remains of sheds are present at the western side of the site. There is no Lidar data for this site.


Google Earth imagery 2002, 2008, 2009, 2013, 2014 & 2015.

Magnesian Limestone aerial mapping project: RAF/541/31 3459 18-May-1948; MAL/82012 0166 29-May-1982; SE5513/2 CCX 14249/6 16-Sep-1992



ESY499 Archaeological Evaluation on land off Market Place, Askern

Trial trenching was undertaken on land near Market Place. No archaeological remains were revealed.

Y



HSY330 Norton Common Drained Wetland Y Y

HSY331 Askern Main Colliery site Deep Shaft Coal Mine Y

HSY354 Askern Town Centre Commercial Core-Urban Y

HSY355 St Peter's Church and vicarage, Askern Religious (Worship) Y

HSY365 Askern Lake Public Park Y

HSY368 Late 19th century villas and townhouses in Askern.


HSY372 Askern Common planned estate Planned Estate (Social Housing) Y

HSY5670 Plantation north of Askern, Doncaster Plantation Y

HSY5678 Eastfield Drive, Askern, Doncaster Semi-Detached Housing Y



Allocation Reference:1068 Allocation Type: Housing Site Name: Former Warrenne Youth Centre, Broadway

Area (Ha): 0.32 NGR (centre): SE 6504 0832 Settlement: Hatfield-Stainforth





Summary

Within site Within buffer zone Scheduled Monument - - Listed Building - 1 SMR record/event - 1 record Cropmark/Lidar evidence No No Cartographic features of interest No No Estimated sub-surface disturbance Partial n/a



Allocation Reference:1068 Allocation Type: Housing Site Name: Former Warrenne Youth Centre, Broadway

Area (Ha): 0.32 NGR (centre): SE 6504 0832 Settlement: Hatfield-Stainforth


The SMR records no monuments or events within the site. One findspot is recorded within the northwest part of the buffer, a beehive quern recovered from a garden off Broadway. The findspot may be misplaced on the SMR, as it is shown in a field rather than within a garden.

There are no Scheduled Monuments, listed buildings or registered parks within the site. A grade II listed milepost is on Doncaster Road at the northeast edge of the buffer.

The Magnesian Limestone in South and West Yorkshire Aerial Photographic Mapping Project does not record any features within the site or buffer, though extensive cropmarks of Iron Age to Roman fields, trackways and possible farmstead enclosures are plotted just outside the southeast and northwest edges of the buffer.

Historic Environment Characterisation records the site and the area to the south as a school constructed in the mid-20th century. Other character zones within the buffer include a 1930s housing estate to the west, and mid-20th-century to modern housing estates to the north, east and southwest. Agglomerated fields are recorded at the southeast edge of the buffer, and regular enclosures within the former Hatfield deer park at the western edge.

Recent aerial imagery (2015) shows the northern part of the site as a grassed enclosure with a building and tarmac yard at the southeast side.


The 1854 OS map showed the site as part of two fields. The current western boundary had been established by 1930 as the edge of gardens to the west, but the central field boundary was still shown at that date. This had been removed, and the northern boundary laid out by 1948, when a building was shown in the southern part of the site. This had been demolished and replaced with a structure on a north-south alignment by 1962, with the site divided into two halves. By 1974, another building on an east-west alignment had been added in the southern part of the site, labelled Warrenne Youth Centre, and the northern area was shown as part of the school grounds. A yard area was shown west of the buildings by 1992.

Within the buffer, the 1854 OS map shows fields, mainly with quite regular boundaries suggestive of Parliamentary Enclosure. The Doncaster and Thorne turnpike road ran through the southern part of the buffer, with a linear plantation to the south, named Lings Plantation. Broadway had been laid out to the west by 1930, with rows of semi-detached housing to either side, and further houses had been built fronting onto Doncaster Road to the south. A water tower was shown at the southeast edge of the buffer. By 1958, a school had been built to the immediate south of the site, and further housing had been built to the east, which was extended further northeast by 1991.

Survival:

The southern half of the site contains a building and the site of an adjacent demolished building. These were of mid- to late 20th-century construction, and may not have substantial sub-surface elements. The northern half of the site does not appear to have been extensively disturbed by adjacent construction. The conditions for the survival of buried archaeology are considered to be moderate. Iron Age to Roman field systems, farmsteads and trackways have been recorded just outside the buffer, and a Roman quern was found nearby. There is the potential for similar remains to extend into the site, therefore the archaeological potential is considered to be moderate.





Significance:

Unknown. Remains associated with Iron Age to Roman settlement and agricultural activity could be considered to be of Local to Regional significance depending on their extent, nature and condition.


Aerial imagery from 2002-2015 shows a single east-west aligned building in the southeast part of the site with a hard-surfaced yard to the west (including the footprint of the former western building), and an area of rough grass and trees to the north. A school was located to the south with playing fields to the east. The surviving building has a shallow pitched roof, possibly with corrugated covering and skylights in the centre. Lidar does not show any clear earthwork features within the site.


Google Earth 2002, 2008, 2009 & 2015. Lidar 1m DTM.



Site? Buffer?

1314806 Milepost approximately 30 metres to north east of Mile End Avenue

II Y



00699/01 Undated Quern, Dunscroft

Beehive quern, complete example found in 1942 from 334 Broadway, Dunscroft

Y



HSY4735 Hatfield Dunsville Primary School, Doncaster School Y Y



Y

HSY4487 Lings Field, Hatfield, Doncaster Agglomerated fields Y

HSY4684 Broadway, Dunscroft, Doncaster Planned Estate (Social Housing) Y

HSY4692 Former Heath Field, Hatfield, Doncaster Private Housing Estate Y

HSY4731 'Park Lane' / High Street, Dunscroft. Private Housing Estate Y

HSY4734 St Georges Avenue, Orchard Close, Doncaster Private Housing Estate Y



Allocation Reference:1069 Allocation Type: Housing Site Name: Land To The Rear Of 98 North Eastern Rd

Area (Ha): 0.78 NGR (centre): SE 6826 1404 Settlement: Thorne - Moorends





Summary

Within site Within buffer zone Scheduled Monument - - Listed Building - - SMR record/event - 2 events Cropmark/Lidar evidence No Yes Cartographic features of interest No Yes Estimated sub-surface disturbance Low n/a



Allocation Reference:1069 Allocation Type: Housing Site Name: Land To The Rear Of 98 North Eastern Rd

Area (Ha): 0.78 NGR (centre): SE 6826 1404 Settlement: Thorne - Moorends


The SMR does not record any monuments, findspots or events within the site. Two events are recorded in the buffer. During 2006 a strip and record evaluation was conducted at North Eastern Road in the southern part of the buffer and evaluation and mitigation were undertaken on land adjacent to Cassons Road in the western part of the buffer. No significant archaeological remains were recorded at either site.

No Scheduled Monuments, listed buildings or registered parks and gardens are located within the site or buffer.

The Magnesian Limestone in South and West Yorkshire Aerial Photographic Mapping Project recorded an area of ridge and furrow in the north of the buffer. This was thought to be of post medieval date, but has since been partly built over.

The Historic Environment Characterisation records the current character of the site and the northwest part of the buffer as North Common, an area of drained wetland enclosed by Parliamentary Award in 1825. It is likely that the area was drained at the time of its enclosure. There is no evidence of the former common, most of the hedgerows have been removed and present boundaries are largely defined by 19th century drainage ditches. The northeast and eastern part of the buffer are recorded as a commercial distribution centre, first depicted on 1997 aerial photographs and forming part of a large late 20th century complex. Directly south of the site is an area of factories first depicted in 1967 and the southern and eastern edges of the buffer are characterised as residential private and social housing estates. The southern private housing estate was first depicted in 1967 and includes some 1930s houses. The social housing estate dates to between 1950 and 1975. The grid pattern of the streets in the estates are influenced by the parliamentary enclosure pattern laid out in 1825.

Historic landfill data records a small rectangular area of landfill within the southern part of the buffer, licensed by Auto Components Limited and recorded as a refuse tip on the 1962 OS map.

Recent aerial imagery (2016) shows the site as an area of rough grass with trees along the western side adjacent to the railway embankment.


The 1853 OS map depicts the site as two fields. By 1892 the railway had been constructed to the west and the western part of the site had been utilised to form the railway embankment. The eastern part remained as an field. The 1975 OS map depicts the eastern part of the site as a coal yard.

Within the buffer, the 1854 OS map depicts the area as enclosed land and drainage ditches. In the southern area of the buffer and to the southeast were Far Post Corn Mill and Bradberry's Corn Mill. By 1892 the Hull and Doncaster branch railway line had been constructed to the west of the site with Thorne station to the south. A group of buildings named Railway Cottages were located in the southern part of the buffer, built on the site of the former Far Post Corn Mill. By 1932 the area in the south of the buffer had begun to be developed with the expansion of the station and the beginnings of the residential housing estate. The 1956 OS map depicts a factory directly east of the site, and by 1962 housing had been constructed in the east of the buffer with housing and industrial works in the south. By 1984-87 buildings had been constructed directly south of the site, forming part of the factory to the east.

Survival:

The site was in agricultural use until 1892 when the railway was built and part of the site disturbed for the construction of the railway embankment. In 1987 the eastern part of the site was used as a coal yard. Lidar shows a substantial ditch crossing most of the site, associated with the railway embankment, which is likely to have truncated sub-surface deposits within this area. Given the truncation and the lack of archaeological remains observed at adjacent sites to the west and south, the archaeological potential is considered to be low.





Significance:

Negligible.


Aerial imagery from 2002-2016 shows the site as part of an area of scrubland/grassland with established trees along the western side adjacent to the railway track. Numerous footpaths run across the site and it is likely that it is used for recreation by the local community. Lidar shows a substantial ditch crossing the majority of the site, adjacent to the railway embankment and probably contemporary.


Google Earth: 2002, 2008, 2009, 2015 and 2016. Lidar 2m DTM.

Photos transcribed by the Magnesian Limestone Mapping Project: RAF/541/31 3443 18-Mar-1948.



ESY265 Archaeological Strip and Record Evaluation at North Eastern Road

In August 2006 an archaeological strip and record evaluation was undertaken at North Eastern Road. The results indicated that the area had been heavily disturbed by modern activity.

Y

ESY538 Archaeological Evaluation and Mitigation on Land adjoining Cassons Road

Between January and February 2006 an archaeological evaluation was conducted on land adjacent to Cassons Road. The excavation of trial trenches revealed a tree trunk. Extant field boundaries were also recorded but no deposits of archaeological significance were observed.

Y



HSY4416 North Common, Thorne, Doncaster Drained Wetland Y Y

HSY4607 Car distribution centre, J6 M18, Thorne Distribution Centre Y

HSY4652 'Tree Estate' (southern section), Thorne Doncaster


HSY5625 20th century infill to the western end of 'Field Side', Thorne, Doncaster


HSY5642 Dorothy Avenue, Thorne, Doncaster Private Housing Estate Y

HSY5646 North Eastern Road, Doncaster Other Industry Y



Allocation Reference: 1070 Allocation Type: Housing Site Name: 24 Avenue Road, Wheatley






Summary

Within site Within buffer zone Scheduled Monument - - Listed Building - 1 SMR record/event - 2 records Cropmark/Lidar evidence No No Cartographic features of interest Yes Yes Estimated sub-surface disturbance Extensive n/a



Allocation Reference: 1070 Allocation Type: Housing Site Name: 24 Avenue Road, Wheatley



The SMR does not record any monuments, findspots or events within the site. Two findspots are located within the buffer zone, a Roman coin hoard of at least 30 denarii, and the findspot of a single Roman coin, though the descriptions indicate that both are imprecisely located and may derive from outside the buffer. One is described as found at Rutland House, which was to the south, fronting onto Town Field, and the other is from Wheatley Hall Road, much further to the north.

There are no Scheduled Monuments, listed buildings or registered parks and gardens within the site. One grade II listed church is at the western edge of the buffer.

The Magnesian Limestone in South and West Yorkshire Aerial Photographic Mapping Project does not record any features within the site or the buffer zone.

The Historic Environment Characterisation records the present character of the site and the south-eastern end of the buffer zone as residential, comprising detached and semi-detached villas with large gardens. The earliest housing development in this area was along Avenue Road, depicted on the 1894 OS map, with other villas in the character area mostly constructed by 1930. The area lies within the Thorne Road Conservation Area. There is no legibility of the former character of strip fields consolidated over time from the furlongs of open fields. The remainder of the buffer zone is characterised as terraced housing, constructed in the late 19th and early 20th century in a tightly packed grid-iron plan, two churches and a former school, with further detached houses at the southern edge.

Recent aerial imagery (2017) shows the site as half of a pair of semi-detached houses bounded to the northeast by Avenue Road, with a hard-surfaced yard to the rear containing outbuildings.


The 1852 OS town plan shows the site as part of a field. The site was still part of a field in 1894, but Avenue Road had been laid out along the northeast boundary. One of a pair of semi-detached houses had been built at the northeast side of the site by 1906, with a shared garden area to the rear. By 1930, the gardens had been subdivided, with a single outbuilding shown at the south end of the yard of no.24. A row of four adjoining small outbuildings crossed the southwest part of the yard by 1961, which appears to have been unchanged by 1986.

Within the buffer, the 1852 town plan shows Thorne Road at the southern edge and fields within the rest of the area. Some contained sheds, pumps and small garden or orchard enclosures, and it is possible that these were market gardens. By 1894, Avenue Road had been laid out along the northern boundary of the site, and detached and semi-detached villa-style houses were shown to the north of the road. Beckett's Road had been laid out to the northwest, and terraced housing was shown in the southwest part of the buffer. Further housing had been built to the south, northwest and southeast by 1906, and to the northeast by 1930, with subsequent infill by 1961.

Survival:

The site contains a house built between 1894 and 1906 as part of the semi-detached villa-style houses within the Avenue Road area. The house is within a Conservation Area, and is likely to be considered a heritage asset in its own right. The yard to the rear contains relatively modern outbuildings. Construction of the house and preparation of the site for development are likely to have caused substantial disturbance to sub-surface deposits, and the archaeological potential within the site is considered to be low.


No further investigations associated with sub-surface archaeology are likely to be required if the site is brought forward for development; however, an assessment of the significance of the house may be required.



Significance:

The house is likely to be considered to be of Local archaeological significance.


Aerial imagery from 2002 showed the site as the southern half of a pair of substantial semi-detached houses. A hard-surfaced yard to the rear contained an outbuilding towards the southern edge and car parking area. By 2008, a new structure had been added along the northwest side of the yard, possibly connected to the rear of the house to the north. By 2017, the house appeared to have been re-covered in red tiles. Street View shows the houses as three storeys in height (including attics), with mock timber-framing on the upper two storeys and bay windows at ground and first floor level. The site has a small gravel garden to the northeast.


Google Earth 2002, 2003, 2008, 2009, 2014, 2015 &2017. Street View 2015.



Site? Buffer?

1151441 Church of St Mary II Y



01788/01 Roman coin hoard, Doncaster

Roman coin hoard - hoard of denarii found at unknown date "at Rutland House, Town Fields (north side)". 30 denarii in Doncaster Museum, but original size of hoard unknown. Latest coin is of Julia Domna.

Y

01824/01 Roman Coin found at Wheatley Hall Road, Doncaster

Roman coin - Marcus Aurelius (recovered from tip). Y



HSY5197 Thorne Road, Doncaster Villas/ Detached Housing Y Y

HSY5196 Highfield Road, Doncaster Terraced Housing Y

HSY5207 Town Moor Avenue, Doncaster Villas/ Detached Housing Y

HSY5216 Old School House, Beckett Road, Doncaster School Y

HSY5230 St. Andrew's, Beckett Road, Doncaster Religious (Worship) Y



Allocation Reference: 1071 Allocation Type: Housing Site Name: 1 Scot Lane, Doncaster



Archaeological significance of site Regional


Suitability of site for allocation Major archaeological constraint

Summary

Within site Within buffer zone Scheduled Monument - - Listed Building 1 49 SMR record/event 1 record 51 records/46 events Cropmark/Lidar evidence No No Cartographic features of interest Yes Yes Estimated sub-surface disturbance Extensive/Partial n/a



Allocation Reference: 1071 Allocation Type: Housing Site Name: 1 Scot Lane, Doncaster



The SMR records one findspot within the site, though its description suggests it may have been found just outside the site. It was a hoard of 24 Roman coins, found at the junction of High Street and Scot Lane in 1924, and thought to be part of a larger hoard. A further 51 monuments or findspots and 46 events are recorded within the buffer. The earliest finds are of a late upper Palaeolithic stone tool and Neolithic to Bronze Age flints found near St Sepulchre Gate. High Street follows the route of a Roman road, which has been confirmed by excavation in two locations on High Street and Hall Gate. A fort was located at the northwest side of the buffer, with an associated civilian settlement extending to the south and west. Roman settlement activity has been recorded to the south of the site off Cleveland Street, in an area that later formed part of a Carmelite Friary. Another coin hoard was recorded to the northeast, and individual Roman coins have been recorded to the north near the Markets. A Roman cremation cemetery and settlement activity were found during excavations at Hall Gate and Wood Street in the southeast part of the buffer. Early medieval activity, including a possible defended 'burh' were recorded within the area of the fort, and a Norman period motte and bailey castle was also constructed in this area. A medieval chapel was located to the north of the site, with an associated graveyard recorded during redevelopment of the Corn Exchange. Medieval settlement and industrial activity, including pottery manufacture, have been recorded throughout the buffer, as well as post-medieval to industrial period houses and workshops (some still extant).

The numerous events within the buffer have recorded remains of largely Roman to post-medieval settlement and industrial activity. Those closest to the site include an evaluation at 5-10 High Street to the northwest, which recorded Roman deposits and features, including the remains of buildings and a rare double burial, as well as the edge of the Roman road. Medieval remains were confined to artefactual material. Evaluations just to the north of this recorded remains of a possible medieval building and an industrial-period cellar. To the south of High Street, various archaeological investigations revealed Roman settlement remains and features associated with the town ditch and a medieval Carmelite Priory.

There is one grade II listed building within the site, the Yorkshire Bank , built in 1841 by William Hurst with an addition of 1906. It is of ashlar, tooled and with horizontal rustication to ground floor. The original part is of three storeys with a two- storey 1906 addition along Scot Lane. It was originally built for the Doncaster Savings Bank, one of the earliest banks in the country. A further 48 listed buildings are recorded within the buffer, of which 46 are grade II. The grade I listed Mansion House is opposite the site to the south, and the grade II* Market Hall is towards the north edge of the buffer. Many of the buildings fronting onto High Street are grade II listed.

The Magnesian Limestone in South and West Yorkshire aerial mapping project did not record any features within the site or buffer.

Historic Environment Characterisation records the present character of the site and the areas to the east, west and south as part of an area of historic burgage plots in the urban commercial core. Many of these medieval to post-medieval plot boundaries are retained in the plan form of the area. Other character zones within the buffer include markets to the north, shopping centres and 18th- to 20th-century commercial core buildings to the north, west and south, industrial buildings to the east, terraced housing at Priory Place to the south, and ring roads at the northern edge.

Recent aerial imagery (2018) shows the site as a stone-built former bank, now a pub or restaurant, of three storeys in height at the south end and two storeys at the north end.


The 1852 OS town plan shows the southern part of the site occupied by a savings bank, with the eastern side of the site shown as a long narrow building labelled the Coach and Horses public house. The pub was shown as a smaller structure just to the northeast of the site in 1894, and as divided off from the building along the eastern side of the site in 1902. By 1930, the whole of the site was shown as a bank.



Within the buffer, the 1852 town plan shows dense development of buildings within narrow plots surrounding the site, with buildings including terraced houses, inns, banks and probably shops. The Mansion House was opposite the site to the south of Hall Gate, and the Market Place, New Market hall and a theatre on the site of St Mary Magdalene's chapel were to the north. The Corn Exchange had been added in the Market Place by 1894. Silver Street was labelled as the site of the Town Ditch. The theatre in the Market Place had been demolished by 1902. A bank just to the west of the site had been rebuilt or enlarged by 1930, and cinemas were shown within the west and east parts of the buffer. By 1961 some of the buildings within the buffer appeared to have been redeveloped and replaced with substantially larger structures. No clear details of changes are visible on the less-detailed 1992 OS map.

Survival:

The site comprises a grade II listed former bank of mid-19th-century date with an early 20th-century extension. The construction of the building is likely to have severely truncated any underlying archaeological deposits, though there is the slight potential for the survival of buried remains in uncellared areas. A Roman coin hoard has been recovered from the immediate vicinity of the site, which lies adjacent to the known route of a Roman road and within an area where extensive Roman and medieval settlement remains have been recorded.


Further archaeological investigations are likely to be required if the site is brought forward for development, largely associated with recording of the listed building.

Significance:

The grade II listed building is considered to be of Regional archaeological significance.


Aerial imagery from 2002-2018 shows the site as a building, with a three-storey block at the south and two-storey block with added, set-back attics on the northern side. The building is a former bank, of 19th- and early 20th-century date, and is grade II listed. It is of ashlar stone construction, with moulded detailing around the windows and modillion cornice.





Site? Buffer?

1031509 Co-Coperative Emporium and Danum House II Y

1151416 51 Hallgate II Y


1151418 53 and 54 Hallgate II Y

1151420 Midland Bank II Y

1151421 National Westminster Bank II Y

1151422 17 High Street II Y

1151423 19 and 20 High Street II Y

1151424 24 and 24B High Street II Y


1151426 The Mansion House and attached railings I Y

1151427 Trustees Savings Bank II Y



1151429 47 and 48 Market Place II Y


1151433 Priory Methodist Church II Y

1151434 4-13 Priory Place II Y

1151440 1 Baxter Gate II Y

1151449 7 and 7A Hallgate II Y







1192593 Lloyds Bank II Y

1192614 54 And 55 Market Place II Y

1192632 Number 49A to rear of number 49 II Y

1192637 The Woolpack Hotel II Y

1192668 The Magdalen Hotel II Y

1192688 The Market Hall, Corn Exchange and Fish Market II* Y

1192791 Municipal Offices to west of Mansion House II Y

1192815 Post Office II Y

1203768 Dollond And Aitchison Farmhouse Frozen Foods II Y

1268265 18 Hall Gate II Y



1286659 Waring and Gillow II Y



1314550 Nag's Head and number 33 II Y

1314865 Westminster Building II Y




1314869 The Queen Hotel and numbers 1 to 5 Sunny Bar II Y

1314872 24 and 25 Baxter Gate II Y


1314902 Barclays Bank II Y

1314903 The Yorkshire Bank II Y






00414/01 East Bar, also known as Sun Bar gate, Doncaster

Site of one of the medieval gates into Doncaster. No surviving remains visible.

Y

00415/01 St Mary Magdelene Chapel, Doncaster

Site of a medieval chapel, thought to have been the original parish church before being replaced by St George's in 1320 when it became a chantry chapel. Burials from the former graveyard were exposed in excavations at the Corn Exchange, together with disarticulated human remains. The burials were aligned E-W, set out in rows and stacked within grave plots. The boundary of the cemetery extended to a point c.50m to the north of the church. A watching brief on High Fisher Gate showed disturbed ground and no signs of the graveyard. Scattered human remains identified during roadworks on Market Street may derive from the cemetery.

Y

00422/01 Site of Carmelite Friary, Doncaster

Founded 1350, dissolved 1538. No visual remains. The Friary occupied a plot on the southern edge of the medieval town, bounded by the town ditch and the burgage plots along High Street and St Sepulchre Gate. The buildings were demolished by 1767.

Y

00422/04 Medieval features, Priory Walk, Doncaster

A large ditch running roughly west east along the line of, and set back from, Printing Office Street was excavated. This was dated to the 13th century or older and is in roughly the right place and alignment to comprise part of the town ditch.

Y

00423/01 West Barr, or Gillot Bar, Doncaster

Site of one of the medieval gates into Doncaster. No visual remains survive.

Y

00456/01 Doncaster Castle The site of a medieval motte and bailey castle, with no visible remains. The castle mound stood in northeast corner of the Roman fort, under the east end of St George's Church. An angled stretch of churchyard perimeter perpetuated the line of the inner bailey ditch. The motte and ditch had been levelled by c.1200.

Y

00665/01 Danum Roman Fort at Doncaster

The fort was established soon after 70AD and was 9 and a half acres in extent, with timber buildings and a cobbled road. The fort was abandoned but rebuilt on a smaller scale shortly before 160AD. The site was surrounded by an eight-foot wide defensive wall built of stones that appear to have been quarried a few miles to the west. A civil settlement lay to the south and west of the fort.

Y

00668/01 Flint dagger of Neolithic or Bronze Age date

Notched flint dagger found St Sepulchregate in 1937. Y

00782/01 Site of the Guildhall on Frenchgate, Doncaster

A 1969 excavation on site of Guildhall found several floors dating back to the 14th century. (For finds see PIN 783).

Y

00783/01 Frenchgate - medieval settlement evidence at the Guildhall site

Finds from the 1969 excavation (PIN 782) on site of Guildhall included a late medieval bone knife handle and 3d of Elizabeth I (1567).

Y

00783/02 Medieval coin from Frenchgate excavations


Y

00785/01 Possible Saxon Burh defences,

A 1972 excavation recorded a ditch at High Fishergate. Clean sand and gravel contents suggested a late Saxon date for the

Y



Doncaster ditch, which was then backfilled by builders of the Norman castle. A large ditch identified on this alignment at High Fishergate in 2006 suggested it may be part of the Roman fort.

00786/01 Late Medieval and Post-Medieval Settlement, Doncaster

In 1972 limited excavations within a tenement fronting onto Market Place showed 15th- to 19th-century buildings and yards, including two large 16th-century bread ovens.

Y

00786/02 Sixteenth century bread ovens, Market Place, Doncaster


Y

01026/01 Roman Coin found Doncaster market place

A Roman coin, a dupondius of Domitian (Rome mint AD 86) was found during excavations in Market Place, c.1930.

Y

01032/01 Roman coin found at Market Hall, Doncaster

Dupondious of Faustina I found under the floor of the market hall in 1967. Rome mint A.D. 86.

Y

01077/01 Section of Roman Road, (York - Lincoln), Frenchgate, Doncaster

Remains possibly of the York-Lincoln Road were discovered during excavation at Frenchgate.

Y

01224/01 Roman Altar found in St Sepulchre Gate, Doncaster

A Roman altar found in St Sepulchre Gate in 1781 was dedicated to the Deae Matres.

Y

01524/01 Timber framed buildings, 4 and 5 High Street, Doncaster

Timber framed buildings with dormer windows. 16th century. Y

01526/01 Timber framed building, 41 High Street, Doncaster

Building containing timber framing. Y

01783/01 Roman Coin Hoard, High Street / Scot Lane, Doncaster

Roman coin hoard of 24 denarii was found at a depth of 10ft at junction of High Street and Scot Lane in 1925. Emperors represented ranged from Marcus Antonius (1 coin 31 B.C.) to Marcus Aurelius (AD 180). Probably part of a larger hoard.

Y

01784/01 Roman Coin Hoard, Baxtergate, Doncaster

Roman coin hoard - 63 AR Denarii and 4 AE coins (Galba - Marcus Aurelius) were found in 1929 in a lorry load of earth from Baxter Gate that was dumped on the Wheatley Hills Estate. About 40 further coins found at the same location but dispersed.

Y

01786/01 Roman Coin Hoard and Iron Key found in Doncaster Town Centre

Hoard of 7 siliquae and an iron key found in build-up behind Roman Fort rampart during archaeological excavation in 1966, within area now covered by Littlewoods store. Coins cover period 337-388 A.D.

Y

01787/01 Roman Coin Hoard, Bowers Fold, Doncaster Town Centre

Roman coin hoard - about 40 AR denarii found during Bowers Fold redevelopment in 1963. Two of the coins were purchased by Doncaster Museum, both of Hadrian, from the Rome mint 119-138 A.D.

Y

01997/01 Roman shield, from Doncaster Roman fort

Remains of a shield were discovered under the Antonine fort rampart during excavations in 1971. It is probably an import, the possession of an auxiliary possibly of West European origin. The context suggests date in mid-80s A.D.

Y

02262/01 Anglo-Saxon period pottery, Doncaster town centre

Sherds of grass-tempered pottery were found in a post-Roman ditch on the Littlewoods store site.

Y



03280/01 Roman Brooch, High Street, Doncaster

Roman bronze harp shaped brooch of an elegant design with pin missing.

Y

03281/01 Romano-British Brooch and Roman Key Finds, High Street, Doncaster

A key and a circular brooch with traces of enamel, both of Roman date, were found in 1912.

Y

03712/01 ?Post-Medieval Stone Lined Well, Wood Street, Doncaster

A stone lined well was discovered during building work at No. 28 Wood Street. Approx. 7m deep, empty to that depth and stone lined. Made of limestone, with use of brick in upper 2 courses, capped with Yorkstone slabs.

Y

04038/01 Medieval Building (Excavated), Hall Gate, Doncaster

Excavation at the Subscription Rooms in 1976 identified substantial footings of a late medieval building, fronting onto High Street. Well-preserved environmental material indicated squalid conditions, with food debris and layers of cut vegetation accumulating to several centimetres, before a fresh clay floor was laid.

Y

04196/01 Possible Medieval Building, Doncaster

Limestone walls revealed in section during evaluation, possibly a cellar. Backfill cut by pit containing late medieval pottery that would indicate an earlier date for this feature. Some structural features survived, possibly industrial in origin. The medieval street frontages seem to have been disturbed by later cellars and it is unlikely that well preserved medieval buildings exist here, though the baulks between cellars may retain archaeological deposits.

Y

04436/01 Industrial period cellar 49 Market Place, Doncaster

A watching brief on the demolition of structures at the rear of 49 Market Place located "a hollow-sounding spot" under the floor of the cellar. The area underneath a flagstone was investigated. Within the deposits were an array of cultural materials dating to the 19th and 20th centuries.

Y

04438/01 Mid/Late 4th Century Midden Assemblage, Doncaster

During a foundation trench excavation, a large amount of bone was unearthed. The trench was c. 1.5 x 1.5 x 0.4m, and cut the existing concrete flooring. The bone belonged to species such as cattle, deer and dog, and were from butchery refuse. Found in context with the remains were two rim sherds dating to the mid/late 4th century A.D.

Y

04500/01 Romano-British Settlement at Wood Street, Doncaster

From an excavation of a single trench, there were found to be abundant remains dated to the Roman period, including pottery consisting mainly of locally produced greyware, simple field boundary ditches and a pit. These, and other finds, imply that a domestic settlement once occupied this site.

Y

04547/01 Doncaster Town Medieval Ditch, 20-28 Cleveland Street

Evaluation in 1996 identified a large feature in the north of the site, from which medieval material was recovered. This is likely to have been the medieval town ditch of Doncaster, known to have occupied this approximate area. A large medieval ditch identified to the west [see PIN00422/04] is likely to be a continuation of this feature.

Y

04562/01 Roman Cemetery in Hallgate, Doncaster

Archaeological investigation at 53/54 Hallgate and the rear of 9 Wood Street revealed Roman inhumations and cremations, with quite a low density of burials. The excavated site is thought to be on the edge of a larger cemetery. Later Roman features cut through some of the burials, dated to the 3rd to early 4th century. Excavations at nos. 58-59 found no evidence of human remains. The cemetery may have been closer to the road and possibly destroyed by 1970s construction.

Y

04572/01 Medieval Pottery Kiln at Doncaster Market Place

Archaeological investigation revealed pottery fragments, most from a pit-like feature with burnt soils, interpreted as a possible pottery kiln. There was no other evidence to indicate

Y



the extent of pottery manufacture in this vicinity. The fabric of the waster sherds compares closely with Doncaster Hallgate 'C' fabric. From the style of the pottery, it has been suggested that the manufactory was active somewhere between the 11th and first half of the 12th century.

05016 Roman Road - Hall Gate, High Street, French Gate, Doncaster

The course of the Roman road through Doncaster was suggested to be along this route by plan form analysis. This has been confirmed in one location on Hall Gate and at 8-10 High Street. The cobbled road continued to be used into the Medieval period.

Y

05017 Excavated Features at Hall Gate, Doncaster

A possible boundary ditch with associated bank and fence were sealed by the Roman Road that came through this area (PIN 05017). No artefacts were located to date these features more specifically. A possible Roman cremation was identified, although no burnt bone was recorded.

Y

05018 Medieval Wells and Small Scale Industry

Evidence for post-10th century medieval activity was recorded on this site at High Fisher Gate. This was suggestive of domestic occupation with small scale industrial activity, probably within domestic yards. Iron slag and a smithing hearth indicate metalworking. Evidence from animal bones indicate that some primary butchery was occurring nearby and possibly skinning for tanning. By the 11th to 12th centuries this area was a religious and commercial focus of the town.

Y

05019 18/19th Century Workshop, Wood Street, Doncaster

Workshop built around 1800, and surrounded by contemporary structures, probably domestic tenements. The workshop was probably built as an extension to an earlier building on Wood Street.

Y

05020 Roman to Post-Medieval Activity, Hallgate, Doncaster

A Roman ditch terminus or pit was identified during excavations on this site. There was "considerable truncation of the [Roman] deposits here during the medieval and post-medieval periods." A substantial plough soil horizon covered the site dating to the medieval period, and a contemporary cobbled surface was interpreted as a pathway between open strip fields. It has previously been thought that the pre-18th century activity on Hall Gate was confined to the street frontage, but 16th century structures were located further from the road.

Y

05023 Medieval Pottery Kiln, Wood Street

Pottery kiln identified on excavations at Wood Street is the same type as others found in the Hall Gate area. The ceramic material found in the kiln and associated features suggests a 1th-12th century date.

Y

05028 Doncaster Corn Exchange

Before the Market Hall and Corn Exchange could be built in the late 19th century there was considerable clearance of the market area. This included demolition of the Butchers' Shambles, removal of the Butter Cross and demolition of the Town Hall. Excavations on the site of the Corn Exchange provided evidence for former back-to-back tenements, and a possible linen workshop.

Y

05029 Roman linear features, St Sepulchre Gate, Doncaster

Three wide, parallel ditches of Roman date probably represent parts of the town defences at different periods. A gully and a number of pits were also recovered, as well as an unstratified coin hoard. The northeast ditch appears to date to around the mid-2nd century. The central ditch dated to the mid-4th century. The south-western ditch contained a 4th century assemblage of pottery with residual earlier pottery.

Y

05378 Late Upper Paleolithic point, St Sepulchre Gate,

Obliquely blunted point (angle backed blade) in a fine dark grey translucent flint, similar to finds at Creswell. Found in shallow undated feature near a Roman gully.

Y



Doncaster

05384 Medieval lime slaking pit, Hallgate, Doncaster

Several pits, including one clay-lined and another containing lime-rich deposits. This latter interpreted as having been used to mix lime mortar.

Y

05488 Medieval features at St Sepulchre Gate, Doncaster

Medieval features identified during a 1976 excavation, possibly associated with the Carmelite Friary, included four ovens, three stone-lined and two with a distinct keyhole shape. A stone-lined well and a number of pits, one stone-lined and with an associated culvert, a small kiln or hearth and a number of gullies were also encountered.

Y

05489 Medieval road, off High Street, Doncaster

A medieval road, massively constructed, interpreted as being part of the primary development of the town in this area during the first half of the 12th century. Between 1350-1538 it probably lay within the grounds of the Carmelite Friary [PIN00422/01]. An open fronted building (possibly a cart shed) was constructed along this road in the 13th or 14th century, modified and improved over the next few centuries and would have stood at the northern entrance to the friary. It possibly coincided with the acquisition of the site by the friary and the closing of the former road as a through route. A later stone-built building contained a probable malting oven.

Y

05490 Roman remains, High Street, Doncaster

Roman remains excavated in 1976-7, sealed by a 12th century road surface. The features were a construction trench and possible wall foundations, the remains of a surface and several post holes or small pits, of mid-late 2nd century date.

Y

05491 Roman features, Cleveland Street, Doncaster

A layer and pits containing Roman pottery. Excavated in 1992. Details of pottery not known.

Y

05690 Early 19th century burials, Church Way West, Doncaster

Articulated remains of three individuals and some disarticulated bone and coffin fittings were identified during road construction in 2001. The burials were in poor condition, but are thought to date to the early 19th century; they were associated with the churchyard of St George's.

Y

ESY33 Evaluation at Baxtergate, Doncaster

A series of evaluation trenches on Baxtergate within the historic core of Doncaster. [The monument record for this site suggests the remains of a medieval building were revealed.]

Y

ESY55 Excavation of Market Place in Doncaster

During an excavation by Hayfield in 1977 at the Market Place in Doncaster a medieval pottery kiln was discovered.

Y

ESY487 Observation During Construction of Church Way

A stone-lined pit, a well or cess pit, was noted by A B Sumpter during observation of the construction of Church Way, Doncaster, in 1971.

Y

ESY743 High Fisher Gate, Doncaster, South Yorkshire

An archaeological excavation on the site of a former supermarket recorded ditches relating to the Roman fort defences, along with medieval wells and pits. Finds included Roman, medieval and post-medieval pottery, Roman coins dating to mid-4th century AD, ceramic building materials and a glass bead. A large, putative Saxon ditch projected to run through the site was determined to be of likely Roman date.

Y

ESY746 Archaeological Excavation at Yates's Wine Lodge Doncaster

An archaeological excavation was undertaken in advance of site redevelopment, in an area of recently demolished buildings. Cellarage had truncated the south-eastern part of the site to 1.8m below modern ground level, while the remainder of the site comprised rough ground. [No details]

Y

ESY747 Archaeological Evaluation at 20-28 Cleveland Street

The site lay at the heart of medieval Doncaster, close to the reputed position of the medieval town ditch. The trial excavation in this area in foundations [seems like words are

Y



missing here]. Romano-British features were also recorded.

ESY839 Archaeological Building Appraisal at 8-9 Hall Gate, Doncaster, South Yorkshire

Building appraisal was undertaken prior to the demolition of printing works and erection of a new office building. The rear wing of 9 Hallgate is listed and will be subject to alterations. The two 19th century buildings probably relate to manufacture and administration. A late 20th-century extension was associated with the print works. An archaeological watching brief is recommended during the demolition of the 19th-century buildings.

Y

ESY840 Archaeological Evaluation at 58-59 Hallgate, Doncaster

An archaeological evaluation of seven trial trenches was undertaken in advance of redevelopment. Three trenches contained 19th-century deposits which destroyed or prevented access to earlier layers. Three contained features of post-medieval date. One trench revealed a sequence of occupation including a Roman pit, a medieval plough soil horizon, and post-medieval garden levels and floor surfaces. As a result, a watching brief was required on development.

Y

ESY841 Archaeological Excavation at Hallgate, Doncaster

An archaeological excavation recovered evidence for three phases of activity during the Roman and medieval periods. These include use of the site as a 1st/2nd-century cemetery and cremation site, and the medieval production of pottery. In each case it is clear that the activities represented also extended into the surrounding areas.

Y

ESY842 Excavations at Church Walk (a.k.a. Askews Print Shop)

Open-area excavation identified flour main phases of activity from early Roman occupation through to the post-medieval or early modern periods. This included features associated with phases of the Roman fort, medieval tanning pits, crop-processing structures and domestic occupation, and also post-medieval tanning or tawing pits. Two large ditches of uncertain date and function were also recorded, relating to either the Roman fort(s) or early medieval/medieval boundaries. Despite a high degree of disturbance, residuality and intrusion, the excavation results have provided important evidence of the chronological development of this key historical centre. The relatively large pottery assemblage recovered from Church Walk is of local and regional significance.

Y

ESY849 Archaeological Evaluation on land off Hallgate/Wood street, Doncaster, South Yorkshire

An archaeological field evaluation to the rear of 53 Hallgate and 9 Wood Street revealed a multi-phase occupation of the site. [No details of results. The monument record suggests Roman inhumations and cremations were found, probably the edge of a cemetery. Later Roman features cut the cremations.]

Y

ESY850 Report on a second Phase Excavation of Archaeological remains on land off Wood Street, Doncaster

A second phase archaeological investigation on land off Wood Street, Doncaster aimed to investigate more fully a number of features of Roman date. This revealed what is believed to be part of a Romano-British settlement site of probably 2nd century date.

Y

ESY851 Evaluation 10-14A Hallgate, Doncaster, South Yorkshire

Archaeological evaluation encountered Roman to post-medieval activity, as well as a wattle fence and ditch sealed by the Roman road that may be prehistoric, although in the absence of artefacts this is unconfirmed. The Roman road, with at least seven phases of cobbles, was situated to the north of the present street frontage. Two clay-lined pits, other discrete pits and post-holes were medieval, while further post-holes and brick cellars represented post-medieval disturbance.

Y

ESY852 Archaeological Watching Brief at High Fisher Gate, Doncaster, South

In 1998 a watching brief was conducted on the excavation of a pipe trench across High Fishergate on the edge of the Market Place. The trench was excavated in previously disturbed ground and no archaeological remains were encountered.

Y



Yorkshire

ESY853 Further Archaeological investigations at 58-59 Hallgate, Doncaster

The watching brief took place intermittently and covered an area considerably greater than that originally investigated as part of the evaluation. Several phases of late medieval and post medieval occupation and activity were identified, including stone buildings of 16th- and 17th-century origins, one of which had been modified to include a possible oven. More intensive development occurred in the late 18th century, with the construction of cellared brick and limestone buildings.

Y

ESY856 Archaeological Field Evaluation Corn Exchange, Market Place, Doncaster

A field evaluation was undertaken within the Corn Exchange during refurbishment following serious fire damage. Several burials associated with the medieval chapel of St Mary Magdalene were recorded.

Y

ESY857 An Archaeological Investigation at The Corn Exchange, Doncaster

In 1995, an archaeological excavation was undertaken within the Corn Exchange to investigate the area of medieval burials, and to excavate and record post-medieval structures underlying the rubble fill encountered during the evaluation. Eleven articulated burials were exposed and examined, together with a large quantity of disarticulated human remains. The articulated skeletons were all aligned E-W and laid out with arms across the pelvis. The burials also appeared to be set in rows, and the density of inhumations was quite high. The boundary of the cemetery was found to extend further than originally anticipated, to a point some 50 metres to the north of the site of the church. The excavation also revealed post-medieval activity on site, including a large tenement structure, a possible workshop associated with the linen trade, and an unidentified workshop or outbuilding.

Y

ESY860 A Watching Brief at 49 Market Place, Doncaster

A watching brief on site works was required by the SYAS. A cellar containing 19th and 20th century material was recorded.

Y

ESY865 Excavation of Burials on Church Way, Part of Northbridge Project

Following identification in a watching brief, there was an excavation of human and other remains in the central reservation of Church Way West.

Y

ESY871 An Archaeological Watching Brief within the 'St. Leger Tavern', Silver Street, Doncaster

A watching brief was undertaken during refurbishment, with the monitoring of two foundation holes for column bases in the cellar, and four trenches for drainage at ground floor level. Made ground was encountered below the existing surfaces, and nothing of archaeological interest was recorded.

Y

ESY872 Archaeological Watching Brief Report, at Priory Walk, Doncaster, South Yorkshire

Archaeological monitoring of two geo-technical pits observed a stone structure associated with two deposits of domestic waste, one of which was dated to the late medieval or early post-medieval period. These were sealed by two layers of demolition material, the uppermost dated to the later 17th century. The archaeological potential of the site is considered to be medium to high.

Y

ESY873 Archaeological Watching Brief at Priory Walk, Doncaster, South Yorkshire

An archaeological watching brief undertaken at Priory Walk, Doncaster revealed the remains of a well of unknown date to the south of the site and a probable Victorian culvert to the northeast of the area. Later remains relating to the foundations and cellarage of post-medieval and modern buildings were found across the majority of the site.

Y

ESY877 Report on an Archaeological Evaluation on Land

An archaeological evaluation in association with construction of a five-storey office block involved one trial trench, due to the extent of disturbance from 19th-century buildings. This

Y



off Wood Street, Doncaster, South Yorkshire

contained remains dated to the Romano-British period.

ESY881 Doncaster North Bridge Relief Road

A programme of archaeological mitigation during construction works for the Doncaster North Bridge Project included a watching brief carried out across this area. [No details]

Y

ESY897 A Geo-Archaeological Evaluation at The Tesco Store, Church View, Doncaster, South Yorkshire

A geo-archaeological evaluation involved a programme of boreholes from which archaeological deposit models were compiled, integrating data from a previous archaeological investigation at the site. No deposits of proven archaeological significance were recorded, though deposits of potential interest lie at relatively shallow depth in the southern part of the site, whilst to the north, they are in excess of 1.0m below ground level, some up to 2.0m.

Y

ESY1028 Building Appraisal of 10-14A Hall Gate, Doncaster

Photographic survey of building to look for archaeological potential noted extensive damage of the buildings by fire. The building included the former 1920s Odeon Cinema and Art Deco shop fronts, as well as a former three-storey townhouse.

Y

ESY1031 High Fisher Gate, Evaluation of Former Supermarket Site

Four trenches were excavated. [No details of results] Y

ESY1032 Trial trenching off Cleveland Street, Car Park, Doncaster

Four trenches were excavated between Priory Walk and Cleveland Street. In the southern part of the area a large ditch was recorded, running roughly along the line of Printing Office Street. This was dated to the 13th century or earlier, as were a number of pits. In the central area were a number of rubble filled pits. A pit containing Roman pottery was also recorded.

Y

ESY1033 Market Street Road Resurfacing, Doncaster

Archaeological investigation of area surrounding human remains found during road resurfacing. [No details of results]

Y

ESY1035 Priory Walk Watching Brief

A watching brief did not identify any late medieval/early post-medieval deposits as identified in previous watching briefs.

Y

ESY1037 Frenchgate (Arndale) Excavations 1964-9

Excavations carried out prior to the development of the shopping centre recorded stratified sherds of Bronze Age pottery found along with flint flakes, as well as 1st to 4th century Roman pits, part of a Roman road at right angles to Frenchgate, a kiln or oven, a possible building, and a defensive ditch. Medieval features included a cellar, pit groups and a well. A flue for a probable post-medieval kiln or oven and a well were also identified.

Y

ESY1038 Excavation at St Sepulchre Gate, Doncaster

Excavation revealed Roman features including three wide ditches probably representing vicus defences, pits, a gully and a coin hoard. Medieval features included four ovens, a well, a stone-lined pit and culvert and several rubbish or cess pits. No evidence for buildings or burgage plots was identified.

Y

ESY1039 Guildhall and Frenchgate 1969-70

Archaeological excavations were undertaken in 1969-70 after the demolition of the 19th-century Guildhall. The trenches did not find the postulated line of the 'Castle Ditch', but recorded part of the cobbled yard of the post medieval Old Angel Inn.

Y

ESY1040 Church Way 1960 A programme of observation and some limited archaeological excavation was undertaken during the construction of Church Way. The only feature recorded in any detail was a stone-lined kiln or oven, possibly a medieval malting oven. A number of post-medieval burials were also removed from the area.

Y

ESY1042 Church Way, Children's Library

A limited excavation was undertaken on the site of the library. A large ditch containing residual Roman pottery and medieval

Y



1970 pottery may have been part of the bailey ditch of the Norman Castle. It then appears that this area may have been kept clear until the construction of the Old Angel Hotel in the post-medieval period, with the 18th-century cobbling of the hotel's yard recorded, directly beneath the footings of the Church School, built in 1821, and those of the 1901 Children's Library.

ESY1044 St George Gate 1967

Archaeological features were recorded on the western side of St George Gate during the construction of an extension to a department store. This required the demolition of 18th century properties. The robber trench of the later Roman fort wall was at the southwest side of the site, along with part of a parallel large ditch interpreted as a section of the Anglo-Saxon period inner 'burh' defences. A timber-lined well of probable 14th-century date was found on the northern side of the site. This was located on the line of the 'burh' defences, and suggests that they had gone out of use by this time.

Y

ESY1045 East of St George's Church 1970-72

Archaeological excavations were undertaken during alterations to Church Way in 1970, after demolition of the former Church School building. The school's footings cut through to early Roman levels and the line of a robber trench of the late Roman fort wall was identified along with part of the surface of a Roman road cut by medieval pits. The outer edge of the bailey ditch of the Norman castle was discovered, and medieval stone buildings were recorded in the southern part of the site, assumed to be the remains of the 'Moot Hall', the only documented structure in this area.

Y

ESY1047 5,7,8 and 10 High Street, Doncaster

Excavations of foundations of the new building's footprint revealed mainly Roman archaeology, including building remains, wells, gullies and pits. A rare double inhumation burial was also found, as well as the edge of the Lincoln-York Roman road and ditch. Amongst the medieval and post-medieval features was a possible copper smelting pit, a limekiln, four wells and stone walls with ashlar masonry. Medieval finds were mainly pottery and animal bone.

Y

ESY1048 Baxter Gate 1966/1972

An archaeological excavation was undertaken in 1966, during levelling work on the site of a temporary car park, in the angle between Baxter Gate to the south-east, and St George Gate to the west. The substantial robber trench of the late Roman fort wall was identified, with a fill including a 14th century long-cross penny. A probable medieval compact gravel road surface was also recorded, which may have formed part of a road running behind medieval tenements fronting Market Place.

Y

ESY1049 Excavation at The Subscription Rooms, High Street, Doncaster

Archaeological excavation during redevelopment revealed a gravel access road to the Carmelite Friary overlying and sealing Roman remains comprising a construction trench and possible wall foundations, the remains of a surface and post holes or small pits with finds of mid-late 2nd century date. An open fronted building, possibly 13th-14th century, was constructed over the 12th-century road and extended in the 15th and 16th centuries. A late medieval building contained a malting oven, and cattle horn cores suggested a horner's workshop.

Y

ESY1050 37-45 Printing Office Street, Doncaster

Archaeological evaluation associated with redevelopment of 37-45 Printing Office Street was restricted to a single open area to the rear of demolished properties due to extensive cellarage. Pottery recovered ranged in date from the 12th to the 18th centuries. The remains of two stone walls and a stone post were thought to be post-medieval.

Y

ESY1051 High Street 1960 Observations made during cutting of a service trench revealed two hard-packed gravel surfaces, presumably the Roman road, and a large quantity of Roman pottery.

Y



ESY1367 Building Assessment at 27 Market Place, Doncaster

The building was a low two storey property dating to the 19th century or earlier. Details of the interior were recorded photographically and through measured survey.

Y

ESY1368 Watching brief conducted during demolition of buildings at 8-9 Hall Gate, Doncaster

A watching brief was undertaken during demolition of buildings to the rear of the frontage, consisting of a brick gabled building and a 20th century extension. Limited ground reduction precluded an assessment of the below ground archaeological potential.

Y

ESY1560 Silver Street, Doncaster Watching Brief

Excavation for foundation trenches within a burnt outbuilding were monitored but no archaeological features were encountered.

Y

ESY1563 Marks and Spencers department store, Frenchgate Watching Brief

Work on the loading bay was interrupted by the discovery of animal bones. Inspection of the trench showed no evidence of archaeological features. Fragments of butchered bone from a cow, a sheep or a goat and a dog were recovered from the fill of the trench and were associated with two fragments of Roman pottery of mid to late 4th century date.

Y



HSY5805 High Street/ Frenchgate historic plot area, Doncaster

Commercial Core-Urban Y Y

HSY5800 Frenchgate Junction, Doncaster Ring Road / Bypass Y

HSY5801 Church Way, Doncaster Ring Road / Bypass Y

HSY5804 Frenchgate Centre (within Bar Dike), Doncaster Shopping Centre Y

HSY5815 Old Guildhall Yard, Doncaster Commercial Core-Urban Y

HSY5816 Baxter Gate / Market Place North, Doncaster Commercial Core-Suburban Y

HSY5817 Market place south and eastern sides, Doncaster

Commercial Core-Suburban Y

HSY5819 Market Place / site of St Mary Magdalene Church, Doncaster

Markets Y

HSY5823 Priory Place, Doncaster Terraced Housing Y

HSY5824 Banks and telephone Exchange, Doncaster Commercial Core-Urban Y

HSY5825 Bar and Restaurant, Cleveland Street, Doncaster


HSY5826 Bowers Fold (south west corner of Market Place), Doncaster


HSY5911 Waterdale and Colonnades Centres, Doncaster Shopping Centre Y

HSY5917 East Laithe Gate industrial area. Other Industry Y

HSY5918 Hall Gate, Doncaster Commercial Core-Urban Y

HSY5926 Crossgate House, Doncaster Civil & Municipal Buildings Y

HSY5931 Frenchgate Centre (outside the Bardike), Doncaster

Shopping Centre Y

HSY5932 St Sepulchre Gate, Doncaster Commercial Core-Suburban Y



Allocation Reference:1072 Allocation Type: Housing Site Name: Spar Stores, 7 High Street, Hatfield






Summary

Within site Within buffer zone Scheduled Monument - - Listed Building - 10 SMR record/event - 7 records/4 events Cropmark/Lidar evidence No No Cartographic features of interest Yes Yes Estimated sub-surface disturbance Extensive n/a



Allocation Reference:1072 Allocation Type: Housing Site Name: Spar Stores, 7 High Street, Hatfield



The SMR does not record any monuments, findspots or events within the site. Six monuments, one findspot and four events are recorded within the buffer. The findspot was of an Elizabethan coin from somewhere in the vicinity of High Street. The monuments include a 11th-century and later church a short distance to the north of the site, where excavations in the grounds recorded post-medieval burials. Three probable timber-framed buildings are recorded on High Street, one to the southwest of the site and two in the eastern part of the buffer, though it is not clear exactly which buildings these refer to. In the southern part of the buffer is the manor house, which incorporates remains of a medieval hunting lodge associated with the Royal hunting chase at Hatfield. It was granted to Cornelius Vermuyden in the 17th century. Building recording established that remains of the Norman hall survive within the current building, along with 13th- to 16th-century elements. Occupation deposits of probable medieval date were found in a watching brief just to the north of the manor house. A watching brief at the vicarage, east of the site, recorded a ditch of 17th- to 18th-century date.

No Scheduled Monuments, listed buildings or registered parks are located within the site. Ten listed buildings are within the buffer, including the grade I listed church and its grade II listed gates to the north of the site. The Manor House at the southe side of the buffer is also grade I listed. Other grade II listed buildings within the buffer include a Methodist Church to the south side of High Street, and houses and a former charity school on Station Road and Manor Road in the western part of the buffer.

The National Mapping Programme aerial mapping project did not record any features within the site or buffer.

Historic Environment Characterisation records the site and much of the buffer as within an area of medieval burgage plots in the historic core of Hatfield. Many of the buildings on the street frontage are of 18th- to 19th-century date, some with earlier cores. Other character zones within the buffer include Parliamentary enclosure fields to the northeast and southeast, the elite residence of the manor house and 18th- to 19th-century villas to the south, a church and modern school to the north of the site, modern housing to the west and northwest, and a shopping centre and factory to the north.

Recent aerial imagery (2015) shows the site occupied by an L-shaped building fronting onto High Street, with a building in the yard to the rear. Street View from 2018 shows the eastern part of the street-front building as a two storey structure, of possibly handmade red brick, with a modern tile roof. The western half had been rebuilt with breeze blocks, and new red-brick houses were shown in the yard to the rear.


The 1854 OS map shows buildings within the site, possibly the L-shaped structure shown on later mapping. The more detailed 1892 map showed a building along the street frontage, with a range leading north along the western side and a separate building in the northeast corner. A pump was shown in the rear yard. By 1962, the northwest range had been at least partially demolished, and a new extension had been added on its site by 1970.

Within the buffer, the 1854 OS map shows St Lawrence's Church to the north of the site, and a Methodist Chapels to the southeast and northwest. Buildings were shown fronting onto High Street and Station Road, and the Manor House was shown within gardens to the southwest. The remainder of the buffer was fields. The more detailed 1892 map showed a lane leading past the east side of the site to the church, and a school to the northwest. The vicarage to the northeast was within extensive gardens. Other buildings along High Street included farms and public houses. Some new housing was shown to the south, east and west of the site in 1962, much of it infill, but with a new estate to the west of Westfield Lane. A new school, replacing the historic grammar school, had been built to the north of the church by 1970, with a factory at the northern edge of the buffer by 1982.

Survival:

The site contained buildings that appear to have been extant by the mid-19th century, possibly houses and/or



shops with outbuildings to the rear. Aerial imagery indicates that at least two of the buildings have recently been demolished and/or modified. The site is within a possible medieval burgage plot and is close to a church with Norman elements. There is a slight potential for sub-surface medieval to post-medieval occupation deposits within any undisturbed areas of the yard, though these may have been impacted by demolition and construction activity.


It is not known if any archaeological assessment or recording was undertaken in connection with the recent demolition and modification of buildings within the site. If further works are planned, some associated archaeological recording may be required.

Significance:

The buildings shown in the mid-19th century could be considered to be of Local archaeological significance.


Aerial imagery from 2002-2015 show the street frontage occupied by a rectangular building, possibly divided into two, with pitched roof. A large flat-roofed building occupied most of the western side of the site, with a smaller tile-roofed building at its north end. On the east side of the yard was a shorter range with a pitched tiled roof, set back from the street front building. The site north and the remaining part of the east sides of the yard were surrounded by brick walls. By 2009, part of the eastern range appeared to have lost its roof. There is currently no aerial image after 2015, but Street View from 2016 shows the street front structure as a single range with a shopfront at the west end and house at the eastern side. The building had modern windows, doors and concrete tiled roof, and was rendered, obscuring details of the construction. By 2018, the render had been stripped from the eastern building, revealing red brick, possibly handmade. At that date, the western part of the building appeared to have been completely rebuilt, or refaced, with the frontage made of breeze blocks, an altered roofline and new windows replacing the old shopfront. The eastern range was partially visible in the 2018 imagery as a row of two to three two-storey brick-built mews-type housing abutting the rear of the street-front building.


Google Earth 2002, 2003, 2008, 2009 & 2015. Street View 2016 & 2018.



Site? Buffer?

1151582 Hawthorne House II Y

1151583 The Grange II Y

1151588 The Shambles II Y

1151589 Hatfield Manor House I Y

1151591 No 11 and 13 including The Shoe Box II Y

1192349 Iron gates to south east corner of churchyard to Church of St Lawrence

II Y

1192369 Old Travis Charity School II Y

1192399 Hatfield Methodist Church II Y

1192542 Milepost approximately 30 metres to north of entrance to Hatfield Manor House

II Y

1192628 Church of St Lawrence I Y





00432/01 Church of St Lawrence and associated cemetery, Hatfield

Large cruciform church, Norman and later. One medieval cross slab floor stone survives within the church, located in the floor in front of the altar tomb. It is the head of a cross slab floor stone, decorated with a Greek cross with fleur-de-lys and lozenge-shaped buds, probably dating to the early 16th century. Excavations outside the church during the insertion of drainage recorded eight post-medieval inhumations, funerary artefacts and disarticulated human remains.

Y

00433/01 Hatfield Manor House (moated). Putative site of King Edwin's Palace

Building recording was undertaken on the house, parts of which date to the 1170/80s, the 13th or 14th century tower, 16th century Tudor 'Great Chamber' and later 19th and early 20th century remodeling. The remains of the Norman Hall are only paralleled in the north of England by Burton Agnes Old Hall. A Saxon palace at this location is likely a product of local tradition. In 1327 the manor passed to the crown and served as a Royal hunting lodge for 300 years, sometimes referred to as a palace. In 1628 the king granted the manor to Sir Cornelius Vermuyden who supervised the draining of the Hatfield Levels. For much of the 16th and 17th century the house was owned by the Ingram family of Temple Newsam.

Y

01527/01 Timber framed cottages, Hatfield

Row of cottages, now shops. Renovated 18th century with earlier core and almost certainly timber framed.

Y

01528/01 Timber Framed Barn, Hatfield

Barn of 18th century date showing clear replacement of timber frame elements in brick.

Y

01529/01 Timber Framed Building, Hatfield

Anglers Shop, medieval timber framed building, Hatfield Y

02733/01 Elizabethan Coin, Main Street, Hatfield

Elizabethan silver coin AR 6d of Elizabeth I (1561) found at Green Acres, Main Street in Hatfield.

Y

03675/01 Site of a Late Medieval Settlement, at Manor Gardens, Hatfield

A watching brief on foundation trenches identified a dark clayey occupation layer , containing flecks of charcoal, ?burnt bone, pinkish mortar and pebbles. Bricks and stone were observed in different trenches. Pottery found was thought to be 15th/16th century Firsby ware.

Y

ESY96 Archaeological building recording and observation of small trenches at Hatfield Manor House 1983

Documentary research, building recording and the observation of some small drainage trenches was undertaken by South Yorkshire County Archaeology Service in 1983. [See SMR 00433/01 for details]

Y

ESY987 St Lawrence Vicarage, High Street, Hatfield

Plot A and access road topsoil stripping. Showed 17th/18th century ditch.

Y

ESY1431 Excavations at the Church of St Lawrence, Cuckoo Lane, Hatfield, South Yorkshire

Excavations ahead of the construction of two soakaway pits. Eight post-medieval inhumations and an assemblage of disarticulated human bone and associated funerary small finds were recorded. Monitoring of service trenches and pits yielded further disarticulated human remains.

Y

ESY1549 Watching Brief at 2 Manor Gardens, Hatfield, Doncaster

A watching brief was conducted during construction of an extension to a house on a site north of the former manor site. An occupation layer containing 15th-16th century pottery, burnt bone and charcoal was identified.

Y





HSY4711 Medieval core plots of Hatfield, Doncaster Burbage Plots Y Y

HSY4476 New Mill Field, Hatfield, Doncaster Surveyed Enclosure (Parliamentary/ Private)

Y

HSY4483 Well preserved section of 'Firth Field', Hatfield, Doncaster


Y

HSY4690 Late twentieth century housing between Hatfield historic core and Dunsville, Doncaster


HSY4694 Housing within the former 'West Field', Hatfield, Doncaster


HSY4696 Station Road, Hatfield, Doncaster Villas/ Detached Housing Y

HSY4707 Factory, Cuckoo Lane, Hatfield, Doncaster Other Industry Y

HSY4708 Travis C of E School, Hatfield, Doncaster Other Industry Y

HSY4710 St Lawrence Church, Hatfield. Religious (Worship) Y

HSY4712 Station Road Shopping Parade, Hatfield, Doncaster


HSY4718 Hatfield Manor House, Hatfield, Doncaster Elite Residence Y

HSY4719 Hatfield Court House, Hatfield, Doncaster Villas/ Detached Housing Y

HSY4721 Manor Lane / Manor Gardens, Hatfield, Doncaster


HSY4726 Manor Lane, Hatfield, Doncaster Villas/ Detached Housing Y



Allocation Reference: 1073 Allocation Type: Housing Site Name: Land Off Malton Way

Area (Ha): 1.34 NGR (centre): SE 5267 0903 Settlement: Adwick-le-Street





Summary

Within site Within buffer zone Scheduled Monument - 1 Listed Building - - SMR record/event 1 record/6 events 4 records/12 events Cropmark/Lidar evidence Yes Yes Cartographic features of interest No No Estimated sub-surface disturbance Extensive n/a



Allocation Reference: 1073 Allocation Type: Housing Site Name: Land Off Malton Way

Area (Ha): 1.34 NGR (centre): SE 5267 0903 Settlement: Adwick-le-Street


The SMR indicates that there is one monument within the site comprising two double ditched trackways and field boundaries observed as cropmarks. Excavation on this site revealed a trapezoid enclosure and evidence of roundhouses of late Iron Age/Romano British date in association with pottery, quern fragments, a spindle whorl, an awl, coins and a brooch. This monument spreads across the south and eastern part of the buffer. Six events are recorded within the site comprising evaluations, geophysical surveys and excavations. These interventions recorded enclosures and field systems which were of Iron Age to Roman date. A further three monuments and six events are recorded within the buffer. Monuments records comprise a Roman road running in a north-south alignment on the western edge of the buffer and three Iron Age to Romano-British ditches in the north of the buffer. A geophysical survey was carried out at Redhouses Park in the north of the buffer which identified ditches and archaeological features. Excavations carried out in the southeast buffer identified Iron Age field systems and enclosures and an inhumation dating to the 9th-10th century AD, likely to be of Scandinavian origin. A number of excavations and evaluations have been conducted in the western part of the buffer. These identified ditches, enclosures and parts of the Roman road.

One Scheduled Monument, the Roman Ridge road is located within the buffer extending to the south. No listed buildings or registered parks and gardens are present within the site or buffer.

The Magnesian Limestone in South and West Yorkshire Aerial Photographic Mapping Project recorded a ditched field boundary orientated east-west across the centre of the site. A rectilinear Iron enclosure, field boundary and ditch in the east of the buffer, ditches and field boundaries in the west, all of which are of Iron Age to Roman date. One post medieval field boundary was plotted in the northern buffer, and an area of post-medieval ridge and furrow in the northeast.

The Historic Environment Characterisation records the current character of the site, and the east and west parts of the buffer as commercial warehousing and sheds. The site was excavated ahead of development revealing complexes of landscape and farmsteads from the Iron Age to Roman period. There is no legibility of previous 19th century enclosure. The south of the buffer comprises the Woodlands model village, constructed to house mine workers. The area directly to the east and running up into the north of the buffer is Red House Interchange motorway and trunk road junctions. The northernmost part of the buffer comprises post-medieval and modern strip fields which appear to have retained their original enclosure patterns.

The site is a strip of scrub/grassland lying to the west of the A368. It is bordered to the northeast by hedges, to the northwest by an industrial unit on Malton Way and to the south and west by residential and office buildings.


The 1851 OS map shows the site within an enclosed field. No changes were shown within the site until 1983 when the A368 road junction split the field. The new road forms the eastern edge of the site.

Within the buffer, the 1851 OS map depicts an area of strip fields surrounding the site with Red House and Red House Green in the north and an area of quarrying to the north and east. By 1892, the Roman road in the west of the buffer was shown as a bridleway. The 1961 OS map showed housing development in the south of the buffer. By 1983 a substantial road junction had been developed in the north of the buffer.

Survival:

The site has been covered by archaeological evaluation and mitigation associated with adjacent developments. It is assumed that archaeological mitigation in this area is complete, as watching briefs were recorded across the site.




If archaeological mitigation is complete in this area, no further archaeological investigations are likely to be required if the site is brought forward for development.

Significance:

Negligible.


Aerial imagery from 2002 and 2003 shows the site to be scrub/grassland with an industrial unit directly to the north. By 2008 five office buildings had been constricted directly east of the site and dirt access tracks used by construction vehicles during the construction of the offices ran over the site. By 2017-2018 residential housing had been constructed to the south of the site and foundations are in place for more buildings within the site itself. No Lidar evidence of archaeological remains is present within the site.


Google Earth 2002, 2003, 2008, 2009, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018. Lidar 2m DTM.

Photographs transcribed by the Magnesian Limestone aerial mapping project: MAL/60427 81709 21-Jun-1960 SE5209/29 NMR 17481/19 17-Jul-2000, ULM BTX 057 05-Jul-1975



Site? Buffer?

1003672 Roman Ridge, Roman road, NW of Doncaster SM Y



02691/01 Iron Age or Romano-British trackways, enclosures and field system, Adwick-le-Street

Two double-ditched trackways and associated field boundaries are visible as cropmarks, and are associated with the trackways to the north of Red House Lane. Elements were recorded through investigations associated with a sewer main in 1999-2001. A trackway (possibly metalled), field boundary ditches and an enclosure were identified. An enclosure east of a Roman road was excavated and was trapezoidal in form with an entrance structure, internal partitions and evidence for roundhouses. The enclosure appears to be of late Iron Age origin, with use continuing into the Romano-British period.

Y Y

03039/01 'Roman Ridge', Roman Road at Adwick le Street/Bentley

Stretches of Roman road used recently as a bridle path. It would have been the main Roman road from Doncaster to Castleford . Excavation in 1958 to the northwest of Adwick-le-Street identified two phases of road. Finds included at least two jars, one of Antonine date. Trenches excavated across the bridleway in 2009-10 recorded limestone rubble near the southern end, possibly a former road surface. No evidence for the road was found in Hanging Wood, and it seems probable that the parallel bank c25m to the east is the true route of the road rather than the modern bridleway.

Y

04915 Roman Road; Bawtry to Castleford via Doncasterand

Roman road from Lincoln towards York via Roman forts and settlement at Bawtry, Rossington, Doncaster and Burghwallis. The stretch travelling through Adwick Le Street is known as the

Y



Adwick-le-Street Roman Ridge Roman Road and is a Scheduled Monument.

05640 Probable Iron Age to Romano-British ditch, Redhouse Park, Adwick-le-Street

A geophysical survey conducted in 1999 identified one definite and three possible ditches of archaeological origin.

Y

ESY337 Trial Trench Evaluation at Adwick Le Street

In September and October 1996 an archaeological evaluation was undertaken. The trenches were positioned above features previous identified from a geophysical survey. A number of enclosures were located and investigated.

Y Y

ESY338 Geophysical Survey at Red House Park

In January 2001 a geophysical survey was undertaken at Red House Park. The results identified a number of anomalies thought to be caused by infilled ditches forming part of an enclosure with associated dtiches/trackway.

Y

ESY339 Geophysical Survey at Redhouse Park

In March 1999 a geophysical survey was undertaken at Redhouses Park. The results located one anomaly indicative of an archaeological ditch, plus several more possible archaeological features.

Y

ESY340 Geophysical Survey at Adwick Le Street

In 1995 a geophysical survey was undertaken at Adwick Le Street. The survey located a number of features previously identified on aerial photographs including field systems, an enclosure and double-ditched 'droveway'.

Y Y

ESY341 Excavation within Area 7, Redhouse Farm

In May and September 2000 a late Iron Age enclosure (Enclosure 1) and length of Roman road was excavated. The occupation of the Iron Age enclosure spanned the Roman conquest.

Y Y

ESY342 Geophysical Survey at Adwick Le Street

In June and September 2000 a geophysical survey was undertaken at Adwick Le Street. The results complement previous investigations and show an extensive area of linear boundaries with possible rectilinear enclosures.

Y Y

ESY986 Survey of Roman Ridge Cycle path route

Measured and photographic survey of archaeological and modern features along path of cycle route

Y

ESY1143 Watching brief on stripping for spine road & in Areas 7, 14, 15, 16 & 17, Redhouse, Adwick le Street

Watching brief on soil stripping for spine road & soil stripping. Part of a field system and possible trackway, thought to be of Romano-British date, was identified as was part of a possible enclosure with a small number of pits containing pottery of 2nd-4th century AD date.

Y Y

ESY1146 Excavation within Areas 2, 8, 12 & 17, Redhouse, Adwick-le-Street

Excavation of four enclosures identified by earlier geophysical survey (ESY 340 & ESY342); in use from the late Iron Age until sometime in the 2nd-4th centuries AD.

Y

ESY1407 Evaluation trenching at Roman Ridge Roman Road, Adwick le Street, Doncaster

Seven trenches were excavated along a section of the Roman Road between Sunnyfields and Red House. At the southern part of the investigated area limestone rubble possibly representing a former road surface was recorded. Several of the trenches failed to find remains of the road due to disturbance caused by Brodsworth Colliery. The presumed line of the road may need to be re-evaluated in the southern part, where a nearby parallel bank may represent the true route.

Y

ESY1455 Watching brief at Red House, Adwick-le-Street, Doncaster

A watching brief was carried out between two known Iron Age/Romano-British enclosures. A single ditch was identified running roughly north-south. Although no dating evidence was recovered, the ditch respects elements of the enclosure to the north so likely forms part of the same field system.

Y Y



ESY1459 Excavations at Red House Park, Adwick-le-Street

Excavations were undertaken in 2001 prior to construction of a sewer main. A Romano-British or Iron Age field system, enclosure and trackway identified by geophysical survey were investigated. An inhumation of 9th- to 10th-century date was recorded cutting through a trackway ditch. This was a woman aged 33-45, of likely Scandinavian origin. Grave goods included brooches and a copper alloy bowl.

Y



HSY226 Red House Interchange Motorway and Trunk Road Junctions

Y Y

HSY245 Fields north of Red House Lane Adwick Le Street

Strip Fields Y

HSY4154 Redhouse Interchange, Brodsworth, Doncaster Warehousing Y Y

HSY4905 Woodlands (north), Adwick upon Street, Doncaster




Allocation Reference: 1074 Allocation Type: Housing Site Name: St Peters House, Princes Street, Doncaster






Summary




Allocation Reference: 1074 Allocation Type: Housing Site Name: St Peters House, Princes Street, Doncaster



The SMR does not record any monuments, findspots or events within the site. There are 18 monuments or findspots and 23 events within the buffer. The nearest is to the immediate north of the site, where the remains of a stone wall of possible medieval date were recorded during an excavation, overlain by a later post-medieval wall. A sand extraction pit was also investigated, along with pottery dating from the Roman to modern periods. A medieval pottery kiln was found just to the southwest of the site, to the rear of Hall Gate, and a Roman cinerary urn was found to the southeast near Hall Cross. Other Roman finds within the buffer include a coin hoard found near Hall Gate to the south, another at Bower's Fold at the western edge, and settlement remains and a cremation cemetery in the area south of Hall Gate and Wood Street to the southwest. In the medieval period, the East Bar or gate into the town stood at the northwest edge of the buffer, and Ote de Tilli's Cross to the southeast of the site at the junction of Hall Gate and Thorne Road. Medieval settlement remains, pottery kilns and a lime-slaking pit were recorded in excavations near Hall Gate, and part of a 12-century column has been moved to Regent's Square. The site of Nether Hall Park was located to the northwest of the site prior to 1892, and post-medieval to industrial period buildings have been recorded in the buffer, including a workshop off Wood Street, with a stone-lined well also recovered nearby.

The events within the buffer include building recording, as well as evaluations, excavations and watching briefs. The nearest to the site are those that revealed the medieval wall and sand pit to the immediate north, and the pottery kiln to the southwest. At a greater distance, the cremation cemetery, Roman and medieval remains to the north and south of Hall Gate and Wood Street were recovered during archaeological investigations in advance of development. At Chequer Road in the southeast part of the buffer, post-medieval stake holes and post holes appeared to represent property boundaries, with the area likely used for agricultural and horticultural purposes from the medieval period onwards.

There are no Scheduled Monuments, listed buildings or registered parks within the site. Within the buffer, there are 31 listed buildings, mostly located to the south and fronting onto Hall Gate and South Parade, and including banks, shops and houses. To the northeast, Christ Church is grade II* listed, with grade II listed railings around the churchyard. Hall Gate United Reformed Church is to the south of the site, with an adjacent listed lamp standard, and no.43 Prince's Street is also a short distance to the south of the site. Apart from Christ Church, all the listed buildings within the buffer are grade II.

One locally listed park is within the buffer, at Regent's Square, with a square open space in the centre surrounded by detached and terraced housing of mid-19th-century date. This is the only planned residential square of this type surviving within Doncaster.


Historic Environment Characterisation records the present character of the site and parts of the west and east buffer as an industrial area, mostly comprising late 20th-century industrial and commercial units in an area formerly recorded as thin tenements to the north of Hall Gate and along East Laith Gate. Other character zones within the buffer include Christ Church to the northeast, 18th- and 19th-century terraced and detached housing along South Parade and Regent Square to the southeast and Thorne Road to the northeast, later 19th-century housing to the north, and markets and urban commercial core to the west, southwest and south.

Recent aerial imagery (2017) shows the site occupied by a large, modern building with a flat roof. It is three storeys in height on the Prince's Street frontage, but has another two storeys at the western side, set back from the street front, with taller stair towers or roof access.


The 1852 OS town plan showed the site occupied by back-to-back housing with narrow yards to the north and south. Three of the houses fronted onto Princes Street, with the rest fronting onto the yards. A Roman Catholic



chapel and school were to the south, possibly within the site. By 1902, the northern row of houses was still extant, but the southern row had been demolished and replaced by a new building that occupied the full width of the site, and connected to a rebuilt church to the south, which covered the site of the former smaller chapel and school. By 1961, the northern houses had been demolished and replaced with a larger building, labelled Catholic Social Club. The building to the south was labelled Presbytery, and the church of St Peters Chains was still extant to the south. This layout was unchanged by 1970, which is the last available detailed map. By 1984, the site was shown as part of a large block with the church no longer labelled. It is possible it have been redeveloped by that point.

Within the buffer, the 1852 OS town plan showed fairly dense development to the east and west of the site, including back-to-back houses in yards, and terraced housing. Larger terraces fronted onto Hall Gate to the south, and some had long linear gardens to the rear. A short distance to the south of the site was an Independent Chapel, fronting onto Hall Gate. To the north of the site, the buffer was more open, with Christ Church to the northeast within its yard, the grounds of Nether Hall to the north, and fields or large garden areas to the east. By 1894, much of Nether Hall Park had been built over with terraced housing, and larger terraced houses had been built in a former field at Regent Square to the east, with further housing to the east of Christ Church. By 1902, the Congregational Chapel to the south of the site had been expanded and a Sunday School had been built to the west off Chapel Yard. Cinemas were shown in the east and west parts of the buffer by 1938, and by 1961 some of the buildings in areas around the site had been demolished and replaced with larger structures.

Survival:

The site is occupied by a substantial later 20th-century building, up to five storeys in height. This stands on a site formerly occupied by early to mid-20th-century religious buildings, and back-to-back housing of probable 19th-or late 18th-century date. The nature of the foundations of the current building are unknown. If the foundations are piled, there is the potential for the survival of archaeological remains within its footprint. If there are substantial foundations or cellarage, sub-surface deposits will be heavily truncated and the potential for encountering significant archaeological remains would be limited. The site is within an area on the edge of the Roman and medieval town, but nearby investigations have recovered settlement and industrial remains from these periods, as well as a cemetery and coin hoards, and there is the potential for similar remains to extend into the site.



Significance:

Unknown. Remains associated with the Roman fort and civilian settlement, and with medieval settlement could be considered to be of Local to Regional significance depending on their extent, nature and condition.


Aerial imagery from 2002-2017 shows the site occupied by a large roughly rectangular building, of red-brick construction with flat roofs. The eastern side is three storeys in height, with a further two storeys at the western side, set back from the street frontage and under a separate roof. There are taller stair towers or roof access structures at the north and southeast sides. The building is of red brick construction and appears modern in appearance, with UPVC windows. A building immediately to the north was constructed between 2003 and 2008.







Site? Buffer?

1132886 9, 10, 11 South Parade II Y

1132887 15 South Parade II Y

1132888 22, 23, 23A South Parade II Y

1132890 Railings and gatepiers to south end of Christ Church II Y










1192021 Lamp standard to front of Hall Gate United Reformed Church II Y


1192048 Georgian House II Y



1192752 43 Prince's Street II Y

1192921 The NCB Offices II Y


1286302 Numbers 4-9 Christchurch Terrace and railings II Y

1286309 Christ Church II* Y

1286363 19, 20, 21 and 21A South Parade II Y

1286405 The Salutation Hotel II Y



1314549 Number 18 and attached railings II Y


1314879 Hall Gate United Reformed Church II Y

1314880 40, 41 and 41A, Hallgate II Y







Y

00421/01 Ote De Tilli's Cross or Hall's Cross, Doncaster

Original site of medieval Ote de Tilli's Cross. Rebuilt 1793 on new site (00421/02). No vestige of original remains.

Y

00426/01 Hallgate 1965 - Medieval Pottery Kiln

There was a pottery manufactory in Hallgate in the late 13th and early 14th centuries. The main products comprised jugs, pipkins, pancheons and some roof tiles. The kiln, defined as probably being a Type 2A two-flued, updraught kiln, was found with three pits all containing pottery wasters.

Y

01149/01 12th Century Column Piece, Regent Square, Doncaster

Column from 12th century nave arcade of St Mary Magdalene's Church. Now in Regent Square.

Y

01150/02 Nether Hall Park, Doncaster

Nether Hall was originally set in extensive grounds which extended as far as the banks of the Don, to the north. The property was bought by Henry Flowitt in 1892 who also built Copley Road and the adjacent buildings over the area of parkland/garden.

Y

01223/01 Roman cinerary urn, found near Hall Cross, Doncaster

A Roman burial urn was found in 1748 near Hall Cross. Y



Y

03320/01 Roman Coin Hoard (with associated finds), Doncaster

Excavations southwest of the main north-south Roman Road produced "slight Roman features and, disturbed in a Medieval pit, a hoard of 15 C2 AE coins, 3 intagli (two mounted in rings), 3 brooches and a surgeon's knife".

Y



Y

04205/01 Possible Medieval and Post-Medieval Unclassified Wall Footings, Sand Pit and Finds, Doncaster

Rubble remnants of a limestone wall of angular stone pieces, overlain by a later post-medieval wall base were found in archaeological excavations. A large pit may have been for medieval sand extraction. A multi-period pottery assemblage is likely to have been dumped there after the extraction, along with redeposited material.

Y



Y


Archaeological investigation at 53/54 Hallgate and the rear of 9 Wood Street revealed Roman inhumations and cremations, with quite a low density of burials. The excavated site is thought to be on the edge of a larger cemetery. Later Roman features cut through some of the burials, dated to the 3rd to early 4th century. Excavations at nos. 58-59 found no evidence of human remains. The cemetery may have been closer to the

Y



road and possibly destroyed by 1970s construction.



Y



Y



Y



Y



Y



Y

ESY34 Excavation at Princess Street and East Laithe Gate

A long section across the site on a north-south axis was created by the removal of much of the site. The section was cleaned and drawn. [The monument record mentions the rubble remnants of a limestone wall of possible medieval date and unknown function, overlain by a post-medieval wall base on a different alignment.]

Y Y



Y



Y


An archaeological excavation recovered evidence for three phases of activity during the Roman and medieval periods. These include use of the site as a 1st/2nd-century cemetery and cremation site, and the medieval production of pottery. In

Y



each case it is clear that the activities represented also extended into the surrounding areas.



Y



Y



Y



Y

ESY854 Archaeological Field Evaluation of land at Chequer Road, Doncaster, South Yorkshire

Five evaluation trenches indicated that prior to the 20th century, the site appeared to have been used as gardens or agricultural land. Post-holes and stake-holes cut into a post-medieval garden soil represented late 18th- to 19th-century property boundaries. The subsoil beneath appeared to have seen agricultural activity in the middle ages, and finds recovered from this level included residual sherds of Roman pottery. Nothing of further archaeological interest was encountered.

Y

ESY869 Building Recording at Odeon Cinema, 35-36 Hallgate, Doncaster

No 35 Hallgate is to be dealt with as part of a later phase of works. The site was initially developed in the 19th century, these buildings then replaced by Gaumont Place cinema in 1934. The building underwent a number of refurbishments and alterations and become a three screen cinema with no live entertainment, although the stage, orchestra pit and dressing rooms remain. The building ceased operation as a cinema in April 2008.

Y

ESY870 Archaeological Watching Brief at Prince Street, Doncaster, South Yorkshire

An archaeological watching brief on the corner of Prince's Street and East Laith Gate, during the excavation of a foundation trench for a five storey building, revealed a series of modern and redeposited natural deposits. No archaeologically significant remains were identified.

Y Y


A watching brief during refurbishment, with the monitoring of two foundation holes for column bases in the cellar, and four trenches for drainage at ground floor level. Made ground was encountered below the existing surfaces, and nothing of archaeological interest was recorded.

Y

ESY874 Archaeological Building Recording

Drawn and photographic building survey. The Chequer Road Boys Elementary School was built to a central hall design so

Y



at Doncaster College, Waterdale, Doncaster, South Yorkshire

that pupils could gather for special occasions. The 1926 Girls and Infants building adopted elements of the more hygienic Pavilion ventilated style of building. The 1910 High School for Girls had elements of the new thinking and a more ornate façade. The 1958 Technical College was built to serve the mining and engineering industries in and around Doncaster.

ESY877 Report on an Archaeological Evaluation on Land off Wood Street, Doncaster, South Yorkshire

An archaeological evaluation in association with construction of a five-storey office block involved one trial trench, due to the extent of disturbance from 19th-century buildings. This contained remains dated to the Romano-British period.

Y



Y



Y


Y

ESY1052 Hallgate Kiln, Bradford Row 1964-5

A medieval pottery kiln was discovered to the northeast of Hall Gate during excavations in 1964 and 1965, prior to the construction of the Bradford Row shopping centre. Also pits containing pottery wasters, from late 12th to early 14th century date.

Y



Y



Y

ESY1478 Evaluations at Waterdale, Doncaster

Trial trenching and a borehole survey were undertaken in 2008, identifying a probable Roman ditch and 19th-20th century military practice trenches, as well as truncation from modern landscaping. In 2010 further trenching recorded at least two Roman cremation burials were recorded, along with apparently unstratified Roman finds and further remains of the WWI practice trenches.

Y



Y

ESY1569 16 South Parade, Doncaster, Watching Brief

No evidence was found for any occupation of the area prior to the construction of the current building.

Y





HSY5917 East Laithe Gate industrial area. Other Industry Y Y




Markets Y



HSY5855 Nether Hall Housing Area, Doncaster Terraced Housing Y

HSY5903 Hall Cross Comprehensive School, Doncaster School Y

HSY5905 Christ Church, Doncaster Religious (Worship) Y

HSY5906 Christ Church Terrace, Doncaster Terraced Housing Y

HSY5908 Regent Square, Doncaster Villas/ Detached Housing Y

HSY5909 Chequer Road School Buildings, Doncaster School Y


HSY5920 Water Dale, Doncaster Car Park Y

HSY5921 South Parade, Doncaster Terraced Housing Y

HSY5925 19th century terrace to the north west side of Waterdale, Doncaster

Terraced Housing Y




Allocation Reference: 1075 Allocation Type: Housing Site Name: Land at end of Layden Drive, Scawsby






Summary

Within site Within buffer zone Scheduled Monument 1 1 Listed Building - - SMR record/event 1 record/1 event 5 records/3 events Cropmark/Lidar evidence No Yes Cartographic features of interest Yes Yes Estimated sub-surface disturbance Low n/a



Allocation Reference: 1075 Allocation Type: Housing Site Name: Land at end of Layden Drive, Scawsby



The SMR records one monument and one event within the site and five monuments and three events within the buffer. Within the site and over the western side of the buffer is an Iron Age to Roman settlement site recorded as cropmarks. Geophysical survey and excavation carried out at Emley Drive covers the southeast part of the site and the eastern buffer. No archaeological features were encountered. Other monuments within the buffer consist of the Roman Ridge road, running northwest from Doncaster, located along the northern edge of the site, two undated enclosures plus other features in the northeast of the buffer and the findspot of abraded pottery found during the evaluation to the east of the site. Two further events have taken place within the buffer; measured and photographic survey of archaeological and modern features along the Roman ridge in addition to seven trial trenches along a section of the ridge.

One Scheduled Monument, the Roman Ridge Roman road lies directly north of the site, within the buffer. The Scheduled area extends into the edge of the site.

The Magnesian Limestone in South and West Yorkshire Aerial Photographic Mapping Project recorded evidence of an Iron Age to Roman trackway within the buffer west of the site, and two Iron Age to Roman rectilinear enclosures and field boundaries; one in the north of the buffer and one on the western edge.

The Historic Landscape Characterisation records the site as predominantly within an area of agglomerated fields. The fields are recorded as large fields around Scawsby Village which are likely to represent the piecemeal enclosure of former open fields. No legibility of earlier field patterns remain. The northern buffer is also recorded as agglomerated fields formerly known as Scawthorpe, Broad Axe and High Fields. The fields were agglomerated during the second half of the 20th century by the removal of surveyed and probably parliamentary subdivisions. The place-name evidence of this area points towards an 'open field' heritage. To the southeast of the site are a school, with Emley Drive planned housing estate to the south.

Recent aerial imagery (2015) shows the site as a small area of arable field to the west of a modern housing estate.


The 1851 OS map showed the site as part of a larger field, with the Roman Ridge Roman road running as a bridleway at the northern edge. No significant changes were shown within the site until 1961, when a field boundary at the east side had been removed.

Within the buffer, the 1854 OS map showed fields and the Roman Road bridleway. Many field boundaries were removed between 1930 and 1961. Some housing development had extended into the southeast edge of the buffer by 1982, along with two schools just outside the buffer.

Survival:

The site has been part of a field since at least 1851, and is likely to have been cultivated, which could have impacted on the preservation of below-ground remains through truncation. The potential for the survival of buried archaeological remains below the zone impacted by ploughing is considered to be high. The Roman Ridge road, a Scheduled Monument, runs across the northern edge of the site, with the Scheduled area extending into the site, and Iron Age to Roman activity has been recorded within the buffer, though an evaluation at the eastern edge of the site did not recover any archaeological remains. Aerial imagery suggests it is likely that a palaeochannel runs through the southern part of the site.


Further archaeological investigation is likely to be required if the site is brought forward for development.

Significance:

Remains associated with Iron Age to Roman activity could be considered to be of Local to Regional archaeological



significance depending on their extent, nature and condition. The Roman Ridge is a Scheduled Monument, of National significance.


Aerial imagery from 2002- shows the site as the edge of a large arable field, adjacent to a modern housing estate. By 2017, the site had been taken out of cultivation and was shown as an area of rough grass between the field and the estate. The 2018 photography shows a substantial palaeochannel running through fields to the west of the site, the alignment of which suggests it would run through the southern end of the site, though it is not clear in this area. LiDAR data does not show any archaeological features or anomalies within the site.

Photograph and Lidar references:

Google Earth: 2002, 2003, 2008, 2009, 2015, 2017 & 2018. Lidar tile SE5405 DTM 1m.

Magnesian Limestone mapping project: MAL/60427 81665 21-Jun-1960; SE5405/1 DNR 2432/19 02-Aug-1991; SE5405/13 NMR 12521/72 12-Jul-1994.



Site? Buffer?

1003672 Roman Ridge, Roman road, NW of Doncaster Y Y




Stretches of Roman road used recently as a bridle path. It would have been the main Roman road from Doncaster (Danum) towards Castleford (Lagentivm).

Y

04016/01 Enclosure, Bentley with Arksey

2 enclosures, plus other unidentified features. Y

04179/01 Pottery Find, Emley Drive, Scawsby

Unstratified abraded pottery recovered from ploughsoil, Emley Drive, Scawsby.

Y

04915 Roman Road; Bawtry to Adwick Le Street via Doncaster

Suggested Roman road following the original line of military advance from Lincoln towards York, entering South Yorkshire in the south-east at Bawtry, travelling north-west through Doncaster and Adwick Le Street and then on towards Casteford.

Y

04935 Iron Age or Romano-British settlement site, Scawsby

Aerial photograph transcription identifies an enclosure and field system remains.

Y Y

ESY525 Archaeological Evaluation of Land off Emley Drive

In April 1993 a geophysical survey followed by the excavation of a number of trial trenches was undertaken at Emley Drive. No archaeological features were encountered, and the only find was very fragmentary unstratified pottery recovered from ploughsoil.

Y Y


Measured and photographic survey of archaeological and modern features along path of cycle route.

Y




Seven trenches excavated along a section of the Roman Ridge Roman Road between Sunnyfields and Red House. At the southern part of the investigated area limestone rubble possibly representing a former road surface was recorded. Several of the trenches failed to find remains of the road due to disturbance caused by Brodsworth Colliery. The presumed line of the road may need to be re-evaluated in the southern portion, where a nearby and parallel bank may represent the true road route.

Y



HSY4296 Land around Scawsby Village, Doncaster Agglomerated fields Y Y

HSY4293 Former Scawthorpe, Broad Axe and High Fields, Adwick Le Street, Doncaster

Agglomerated fields Y

HSY4925 Emley Drive Scawsby, Doncaster Planned Estate (Social Housing) Y

HSY4926 Scawsby Rosedale Schools, Doncaster School Y



Allocation Reference: 1076 Allocation Type: Housing Site Name: Suite Express House, 39A Skellow Rd

Area (Ha): 0.09 NGR (centre): SE 54255 09720 Settlement: Carcroft-Skellow





Summary

Within site Within buffer zone Scheduled Monument - - Listed Building - - SMR record/event - - Cropmark/Lidar evidence No Yes Cartographic features of interest Yes Yes Estimated sub-surface disturbance Extensive n/a



Allocation Reference: 1076 Allocation Type: Housing Site Name: Suite Express House, 39A Skellow Rd




No Scheduled Monuments, listed buildings or registered parks are located within the site or buffer.

The Magnesian Limestone in South and West Yorkshire aerial mapping project did not record any features within the site. Areas of post-medieval ridge and furrow were recorded to the south of the site and at the northern edge of the buffer, in areas now built over.

Historic Environment Characterisation records the site and the eastern part of the buffer as housing of different types developed along Skellow Road in the early 20th century. Other character zones within the buffer include early 20th-century terraced housing at the northeast, modern social housing at the northern edge, late 20th-century retail parks to the north and northwest, and an industrial estate on the site of former Bullcroft Colliery railway sidings to the south. The site of the former colliery and its spoil heap is located at the western edge of the buffer.

Recent aerial photography (2018) shows a row of terraced shops and a house at the northern side of the site with outbuildings to the rear.


The 1854 OS map shows the site as part of two fields, with a boundary running through on a northwest to southeast alignment. This boundary appears to have been a narrow stream or drainage ditch. The northern boundary of the site was formed by Skellow Lane. The boundary was not clearly depicted as a drainage ditch in 1892, though a ditch was shown along a continuation of the boundary to the east. By 1930, a row of buildings was shown within the northern half of the site, with a separate but attached structure to the immediate west (outside the site). Outbuildings were shown in the yard at the south side of the site, and a covered cart entrance ran through the main building. No significant changes were shown within the site by 1990.

Within the buffer, the 1854 map depicted fields, with a small group of buildings to the west along Skellow Lane, and north of Carcroft High Street at the northern edge of the buffer. Owston Road was extant at the northern edge of the buffer. A possible pond was shown just to the west of the site. By 1906, a school and house had been built to the south of Skellow Lane at the eastern edge of the buffer, and a house to the north of the road opposite the site. By 1932, railway sidings were shown at the southern edge of the buffer, and a works building, probably associated with Bullcroft Main Colliery, at the southwest, separated from the site by a field. A Methodist Chapel was located to the immediate east of the site, and terraced, semi-detached and detached housing, a bank and a public house were present along Skellow Road and Owston Road. Further housing had been built to the northeast by 1956. By 1961, the historic buildings to the west of the site had been demolished and built over, and a depot and works were shown to the southwest and southeast of the site. The railway sidings had been removed by 1978, by which date the colliery had closed. A training centre was shown to the south between the depot and works buildings. A large building south of High Street was probably part of a retail park, and the former Methodist Chapel to the east of the site was labelled 'depot'. Some houses along Skellow Road in the western part of the buffer had been demolished by 1990.

Survival:

The site is occupied by early 20th-century terrace of shops, possibly with accommodation over, with outbuildings in the rear yard. The buildings are likely to have damaged or destroyed any sub-surface archaeological remains and the archaeological potential is considered to be low. The shops themselves have some decorative architectural features, and may be considered to be of historic interest in their own right.


No further sub-surface archaeological investigations are likely to be required if the site is brought forward for



development; however, assessment of the significance of the standing buildings may be required.

Significance:

The standing buildings are likely to be considered to be of Local archaeological significance.


Aerial imagery from 2002-2018 shows the site as occupied by a row of buildings along the north side, with a hard-surfaced yard and outbuildings to the rear. Street View shows the buildings as a two-storey terrace of shops, with some surviving early 20th-century shopfronts, though others have been modernised. They are of brick construction, painted cream, with a pitched roof and two front-facing gables with decorative mouldings above wide, shallow-arched first floor windows. A central cart entrance has quite decorative wooden gates. A moulded string course runs along most of the building's frontage between the ground and first floors. To the west of the site, a house is tied into to the westernmost shop, the first floor windows having similar sills and lintels to the majority of those in the shops.


Google Earth 2002, 2003, 2008, 2009, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017 & 2018. Street View 2018.

Photographs transcribed by the Magnesian Limestone aerial mapping project: RAF/CPE/UK/1879 3105 06-Dec-1946; RAF/CPE/UK/1880 5076 06-Dec-1946.



HSY134 Skellow Road Carcroft Semi-Detached Housing Y Y

HSY95 Owston Rd, Askern Road and Queens Road, Carcroft

Terraced Housing Y

HSY115 Carcroft Town Centre Retail Park Y

HSY116 Carcroft Commercial Centre / Former Carcroft Common

Retail Park Y

HSY117 Former Bullcroft Colliery site Piecemeal Enclosure Y

HSY121 Trafalgar Estate - Crossdale Gardens, Martindale Walk.


HSY135 Carcroft Enterprise Park (former Bullcroft sidings)

Other Industry Y

HSY251 High street townhouses, Carcroft Villas/ Detached Housing Y



Allocation Reference:1077 Allocation Type: Housing Site Name: 1-2 Queens Court, Rowan Garth, Bentley






Summary

Within site Within buffer zone Scheduled Monument - - Listed Building - - SMR record/event - - Cropmark/Lidar evidence Yes Yes Cartographic features of interest Yes Yes Estimated sub-surface disturbance Partial n/a



Allocation Reference: 1077 Allocation Type: Housing Site Name: 1-2 Queens Court, Rowan Garth, Bentley



The SMR does not record any monuments, findspots or events within the site or buffer zone.


The Magnesian Limestone in South and West Yorkshire Aerial Photographic Mapping Project recorded two military buildings within the site in 1948, both of which extended southeast into the buffer zone. Further military buildings were recorded in the area to the southeast, in an area since developed with housing. Two areas of post-medieval ridge and furrow were plotted at the northwest edge of the buffer from a photograph taken in 1946, though these have since been built over.

Historic Environment Characterisation data records the present character of the site as an industrial estate first depicted in 1972, with no legibility of the former character of surveyed enclosure or probable open field. Further character areas within the buffer comprise early 20th-century terraced houses and allotments, mid-20th-century semi-detached housing, playing fields and industrial estate, and a modern planned social housing estate and an area of regenerated scrubland between three disused stretches of railway.

Recent aerial imagery (2017) shows three single-storey derelict works or warehouse buildings within the site, with areas of hard-surfaced yard between.


The 1854 to 1930 OS maps depicted the site as part of a field within an area known as West Field. In 1956, a group of rectangular buildings, possibly barracks or stores, had been built within and to the southeast of the site, off Queen's Drive. These were identified as military buildings from aerial photographs (Magnesian Limestone Mapping Project). The military buildings had been demolished by 1960, when the site was shown as vacant, with an access road leading into it from Queen's Court. In 1966, one rectangular building was shown in the southwest side of the site, and by 1981, two further buildings had been added in the north and northeast parts of the site, labelled as a factory and works. These appear to be the structures surviving to the present day.

The 1854 to 1906 OS maps depicted the buffer zone as fields within the West Field and Street Croft areas, with Watch House Lane to the north of the site on a northeast-southwest alignment. By 1930, a three-way mineral railway junction had been established in the southwest part of the buffer, and some of the fields had become allotment gardens. Housing was extending into the northeast part of the buffer and along Watch House Lane at the western edge. By 1948, four buildings were shown within the field containing the site, but northwest of the site itself, possibly military buildings. Queen's Drive had been laid out by that date. Further buildings had been built within the field by 1956, by which date housing around the northwest, south and southwest edges of the buffer had been expanded, along with large works buildings at the western edge. By 1960, the military buildings had mainly been demolished, and a council yard was shown to the northwest of the site. Works buildings to the southeast of the site may have been converted from the military structures. Semi-detached and detached housing was shown to the immediate east of the site. The 1981 OS map showed works buildings to the southwest of the site, the depot to the north and a new housing estate built on the site of the works to the southeast. Playing fields had been established in former vacant ground between houses in the northeast part of the buffer. The railway lines in the south and west parts of the buffer had been dismantled by that date, though their routes survive as footpaths.

Survival:

The site has been occupied by mid-20th-century military structures and later works buildings. The extent of disturbance caused by the construction of these buildings is unclear, as they may not have substantial foundations; however, there is likely to have been some associated truncation of sub-surface deposits. The potential for the survival of significant buried archaeological remains within the site is considered to be low.





Significance:

Negligible.


The 2002-2017 aerial imagery shows three rectangular works buildings within the site, all with pitched roofs with corrugated coverings, and tarmac-surfaced parking areas in between. Street View imagery from 2012 shows the buildings as low single-storey structures, at least one being of brick construction, and one in a poor condition. Lidar does not show any earthworks of archaeological origin within the site.


Google Earth: 2002, 2003, 2008, 2009, 2015 & 2017. Street View 2012. Lidar 1m and 2m DTM.

Photos transcribed by the Magnesian Limestone Project: RAF/CPE/UK/1880 1074 06-Dec-1946; RAF/541/21 4146 15-May-1948.



HSY5172 Watch House Lane, Bentley, Doncaster Other Industry Y Y

HSY4947 Allotment gardens, Bentley Rise, Doncaster Allotments Y

HSY4948 Bentley Rise (Holly Avenue to Washington Grove)

Terraced Housing Y

HSY4953 Lauder Road, Bentley Rise, Doncaster Planned Estate (Social Housing) Y

HSY4954 Playing Fields near Queens Drive, Bentley, Doncaster


HSY5083 Doncaster Industry Park, Doncaster Other Industry Y

HSY5084 Former Rail Interchange, Bentley, Doncaster Regenerated Scrubland Y



Allocation Reference: 1080 Allocation Type: Housing Site Name: Junction of Chadwick & Edwin Rds, Woodlands

Area (Ha): 0.345 NGR (centre): SE 53274 07677 Settlement: Adwick le Street/Woodlands





Summary

Within site Within buffer zone Scheduled Monument - - Listed Building - 14 SMR record/event 1 record 3 records/5 events Cropmark/Lidar evidence No No Cartographic features of interest Yes Yes Estimated sub-surface disturbance Extensive n/a



Allocation Reference: 1080 Allocation Type: Housing Site Name: Junction of Chadwick & Edwin Rds, Woodlands

Area (Ha): 0.345 NGR (centre): SE 53274 07677 Settlement: Adwick le Street/Woodlands


The SMR records one monument within the site and extending across most of the buffer. This is the Woodlands Colliery Village, designed by Percy Houfton in c.1908 for the Brodsworth Colliery Company. The design followed garden village principles, and was laid out in geometric patterns with regular open green space and the incorporation of mature trees. The design of the housing and municipal buildings was influenced by the Arts and Crafts movement. Within the buffer, two further monuments are recorded, both referring to the Roman road along the western edge of the buffer. This includes both the ‘suggested route’ of a Roman road from Lincoln to York, via Bawtry, Doncaster and Castleford, and the evidence for the survival of remains of this road from survey and evaluation trenching, which are two of the five events within the buffer. Two further events comprised investigations of an Iron Age to Roman field system, identified through geophysical survey and evaluation trenching at the northeast edge of the buffer. The fifth event was a palaeoenvironmental survey that extended just into the southwest edge of the buffer, with peat formation dated to the Iron Age and early medieval periods.

There are no Scheduled Monuments or listed buildings within the site. Fourteen grade II listed buildings are located within the buffer, all relating to the early development of the Woodlands Colliery Village c.1908. These include the Woodlands First and Middle Schools to the immediate south of the site, and All Saints Church further to the west, as well as semi-detached housing within the village.


The Historic Environment Characterisation records the site as part of an area of municipal and institutional buildings within the core of Woodlands colliery village. Many of these buildings are listed and form an integral part of the architecturally important model village. Character zones within the buffer include the Park and Woodlands North components of the colliery village, forming the earliest and most architecturally-significant elements of the housing estates. Ornamental parkland at the southwest edge of the buffer originated as a landscape park associated with Woodlands Hall. The hall was built c.1795 and converted into a miners’ welfare centre and recreation ground in the early 20th century. Within the eastern part of the buffer is the c.1908 commercial core, the 1930s extension of the village in a less significant style and grid-iron street pattern, and 1930s and later school and housing.

The site was occupied with late 20th-century blocks of two-storey flats arranged in a T-shape in 2009. These buildings had been demolished by 2015 and in 2017 the site appeared to be in the process of development.


The site was shown as part of a field at Beck Hill in 1851, with the northern boundary formed by Green Lane (now Quarry Lane). This remained unchanged in 1906. By 1930, the colliery village had been built and the site was shown as an open market place. The 1962 map showed two rectangular buildings in the western part of the site associated with the market place, and further buildings in the southern corner. By 1966, two large buildings were shown within the site. In 1982, all the buildings on the site had been demolished and replaced with a T-shaped block of buildings, shown on early 20th-century aerial photographs as conjoined two-storey maisonettes or flats.

Within the buffer, the 1851 map showed Woodlands Park to the southeast, a lane labelled Roman Road to the west and two small 'old' limestone quarries, one adjacent to the Roman road and one to the north of the junction of Green Lane and the Great North Road, which ran through the eastern buffer. Fields surrounding the site were characteristic of Parliamentary Enclosure, possibly from open fields. The southern boundary of the field containing the site was formed by an un-named lane. The 1892 map showed Woodlands Cottages at the northeast corner of the park, southeast of the site. Woodlands Colliery Village was first shown on the 1930 OS map, with the area to the north of the site laid out as semi-detached housing on geometrically-planned streets with open space behind the houses. A church, mission room and hall were to the west of the site, a large building to east (labelled 'Salvation Army Hall' in 1962) and schools and Methodist chapels to the south. To the east of the



Great North Road, the houses were arranged in a grid pattern, with narrow gardens behind. A fire station was shown on the site of the former mission hall in 1962, and the school to the south had been enlarged.

Survival:

The majority of the site has been built on in the 20th century, including a phase of late 20th-century redevelopment and early 21st-century demolition. This activity is likely to have disturbed or removed any buried archaeological remains within the site. The potential for the survival of unrecorded buried archaeology is considered to be low.


No further archaeological investigations are likely to be required if the site is brought forward for development; however, an assessment of the impact of the development on the setting of the nearby grade II listed buildings may be required.

Significance:

Negligible.


The 2002-2009 aerial photographs show the site occupied by a T-shaped block of two-storey maisonettes or flats, of brownish-brick construction with pitched cement tile roofs. There were grass verges to the front and car parking area at the northeast side and a lawn area to the southeast. By 2015, the buildings had been demolished and grassed over, and in 2018 the site had been stripped of topsoil and appeared to be undergoing redevelopment. No features other than modern building platforms are visible on the Lidar coverage.


Google Earth coverage, 2002, 2003, 2008, 2009, 2015, 2017 & 2018. Street View 2009. Lidar 1m DTM.



Site? Buffer?

1151479 15 and 17, Green Lane II Y

1151480 27 and 29, Green Lane II Y

1151481 26-32, Green Lane II Y

1151482 34-38, Green Lane II Y

1151483 17-19, Quarry Lane II Y

1151514 Church of All Saints II Y

1151515 2-8, Central Avenue II Y

1151516 31-37, Central Avenue II Y

1191705 129-135, The Crescent II Y

1191727 Woodlands Middle School II Y

1191756 Woodside Cottages II Y

1314834 27 and 29, Central Avenue II Y

1314835 Woodlands First School II Y

1314855 113 and 115, The Crescent II Y






Stretches of Roman road used recently as a bridle path. It would have been the main Roman road from Doncaster (Danum) towards Castleford (Lagentivm). Topographic and photographic survey in 2009 identified areas of surviving ridge.

Y

04432/01 Woodlands Colliery Village

Model village constructed in the early 20th century for miners at the nearby Brodsworth Colliery.

Y Y

04915 Roman Road; Bawtry to Adwick Le Street via Doncaster

Suggested Roman road following the original line of military advance from Lincoln towards York, entering South Yorkshire in the south-east at Bawtry, travelling north-west through Doncaster and Adwick Le Street.

Y

ESY357 Palaeo-Environmental Sampling at the Former Brodsworth Colliery

In 2002 a borehole survey undertaken at the former Brodsworth Colliery indicated that the lower peats were laid down between 410 BC and 370 BC with the upper peats dating to between AD 770 and AD 960.

Y


Measured and photographic survey of archaeological and modern features along path of cycle route

Y


Seven trenches excavated along a section of the Roman Ridge Roman Road. At the southern end limestone rubble possibly representing a former road surface was recorded. Several trenches failed to find remains of the road due to disturbance caused by Brodsworth Colliery. The presumed line of the road may need to be re-evaluated in the southern portion, where a nearby and parallel bank may represent the true road route.

Y

ESY1450 Geophysical survey at North Ridge Community College

A geophysical survey identified remains of a field system of probable Iron Age/Romano-British date, ridge and furrow earthworks and features associated with modern allotments.

Y

ESY1451 Excavations at Outwood Academy, Adwick-le-Street, Doncaster

Trial trenching and subsequent area excavations were carried out at the site of Outwood Academy. Remains associated with a late Iron Age and Romano-British field system were recorded, along with a small assemblage of finds.

Y



HSY4895 Churches and other public buildings, Woodlands, Doncaster

Religious (Worship) Y Y

HSY4892 The Park, Woodlands, Doncaster Planned Estate (Social Housing) Y

HSY4893 Woodlands Park, Woodlands, Doncaster Private Parkland Y

HSY4894 Woodlands (North of Church), Doncaster Planned Estate (Social Housing) Y

HSY4899 Woodlands East (north of welfare ground), Doncaster


HSY4906 Adwick School, Adwick le Street, Doncaster School Y

HSY4909 Windmill Lane Balk, Woodlands / Adwick le Street, Doncaster


HSY5724 Great North Road, Woodlands, Doncaster Commercial Core-Suburban Y



Allocation Reference:1081 Allocation Type: Housing Site Name: Cedar Adult Centre, Warde Avenue, Balby






Summary

Within site Within buffer zone Scheduled Monument - - Listed Building - - SMR record/event - - Cropmark/Lidar evidence No Yes Cartographic features of interest No Yes Estimated sub-surface disturbance Partial n/a



Allocation Reference: 1081 Allocation Type: Housing Site Name: Cedar Adult Centre, Warde Avenue, Balby




There are no Scheduled Monuments, Listed Buildings or registered parks and gardens within the site or buffer.

The Magnesian Limestone in South and West Yorkshire aerial mapping project did not record any features within the site. At the edge of the buffer on the far southwest side is an area of post medieval ridge and furrow. On the far southeast of the buffer is a medieval/post medieval clay pit defined as an earthwork. This area is also defined as an area of historic landfill.

Historic Environment Characterisation records the site and the buffer directly north of the site as a school in use from 1975 constructed on the site of a former workhouse which was demolished in 1974. Prior to this the area was used for agriculture. Legibility of the former landscape is fragmentary as some of the boundaries of the former fields have been fossilised. The northern and eastern buffer is characterised as residential housing estates constructed in the 1930s/40s. To the south is a later private housing estate. Within the western part of the buffer is a nursing home constructed on the site of the former workhouse mortuary. Legibility of former field boundaries within the housing estates is invisible.

Recent aerial imagery (2017) shows the site as a rectangular area with concrete footprint of a former building on the east and grassland on the west. School buildings stand directly north of the site.


The 1854 OS map shows the site as on the eastern edge of a large field named Spital Field with smaller strip fields to the west. By 1903, the site was within the grounds of a workhouse, but no buildings were shown within the site area. The site remained undeveloped until 1976, when the Cedar Adult Centre, a single building, had been constructed on the eastern part of the site. This was still extant on the 1994 OS map.

Within the buffer, the 1854 map shows the area largely composed of strip fields and the larger Spital Field in the west. Merrywinkle Lane (now Cedar Road) ran across the north of the buffer and Springwell Lane ran down the eastern side. By 1903 a workhouse complex had been established to the south of the site, within the centre of Spital Field, with and isolation hospital to the north and a lodge house directly south of the site. By 1930 housing estates had been built on the strip fields around Spital Field and Ward Avenue to the east of the site had been laid out. In 1959, the workhouse was shown as a hospital. By 1976, the isolation hospital directly north of the site had been converted into a school. The 1980-1987 OS map shows that the main hospital buildings to the southwest had been demolished. The former workhouse lodge to the south of the site had been demolished and replaced with modern housing by 1994.

Survival:

Cedar Adult Centre was constructed on the eastern part of the site in the late 1970s. The building has now been demolished. The construction of the building is likely to have disturbed any archaeological remains within this area. The grassed area to the west of the building has not been developed. The use of the site for agriculture may have caused some truncation of sub-surface deposits and the conditions for the survival of sub-surface archaeological remains below the zone affected by ploughing are considered to be moderate. No archaeology is recorded within the area. The field name 'Spital Field' that was associated with the site in the mid-19th century could indicate that a medieval hospital was located within the vicinity, or that income from the rental or produce of the field were donated to a hospital. The latter is perhaps more likely as there is no record of a hospital in this area prior to the construction of the late 19th-century workhouse. The archaeological potential is considered to be moderate to low.





Significance:

Unknown.


Google Earth aerial imagery between 2002 and 2015 showed a series of mainly flat roofed conjoined buildings in the eastern half of the site, with grassland or lawns the west. To the north was a school, and around all other sides was residential housing with a nursing home to the west. By 2017 the buildings on the site had been demolished leaving hard standing in the east and a rough grass area in the west. LiDAR imagery does not show any features of archaeological potential.


Google Earth: 2002, 2003, 2008, 2009, 2014, 2015 & 2017. Lidar 2m DTM.

Photos transcribed by the Magnesian Limestone Mapping Project: RAF/58/899 5148 19-Jun-1952



HSY5551 Warde Avenue, Balby, Doncaster School Y Y

HSY5548 Woodfield School, Cedar Road, Balby, Doncaster

School Y

HSY5549 Cedar Road, Balby, Doncaster Nursing Home / Almshouse Y

HSY5550 Westbourne Gardens, Balby, Doncaster Private Housing Estate Y

HSY5552 Warmsworth Road, Balby, Doncaster Planned Estate (Social Housing) Y

HSY5577 Springwell Lane, Balby, Doncaster Planned Estate (Social Housing) Y

HSY5991 Adventure playground, Balby, Doncaster Playing Fields/ Recreation ground Y



Allocation Reference:1082 Allocation Type: Housing Site Name: Conisbrough Social Education Centre, Old Road






Summary

Within site Within buffer zone Scheduled Monument - - Listed Building - - SMR record/event - 1 record Cropmark/Lidar evidence Yes/No Yes/No Cartographic features of interest Yes/No Yes/No Estimated sub-surface disturbance Extensive n/a



Allocation Reference: 1082 Allocation Type: Housing Site Name: Conisbrough Social Education Centre, Old Road



The SMR does not record any monuments, findspots or events within the site. One monument is recorded within the buffer, Old Road, which runs along the northern boundary of the site, is thought to be a medieval route from Firsby to Conisbrough. Given its proximity to the theorised route of a Roman road from Brough to Doncaster, which is thought to run to the south of the buffer (along the current Sheffield Road), it is possible that Old Road may mark the actual route of the Roman road.

No Scheduled Monuments, listed buildings or registered parks and gardens are located within the site or buffer.


Historic Environment Characterisation records the present character of the site and part of the south and west buffer as schools, dating to the last quarter of the 20th century. Other character areas within the buffer include playing fields to the north and mid- to later 20th-century planned housing estates to the south, east and northeast.

Recent aerial imagery (2018) shows the site cleared of buildings and undergoing redevelopment.


The 1854 OS map shows the site as part of a field, bounded to the northwest by Old Road. The site was shown as a playing field in 1966, and by 1981 a large building was shown within the central part of the site. It was not named on any of the historic maps, but was the social education centre that was still present in 2015.

Within the buffer, the 1854 map mainly shows fields in an area known as Holy Well Field around and south of the site, and Hill Field to the north. A small, disused sandstone quarry was shown north of Old Road at the western edge of the buffer. No changes were shown until 1948, when housing was under construction at the northeast edge of the buffer, and by 1956 much of the eastern buffer was housing estates. A school was shown in the field to the west of the site by 1966, and a youth and welfare centre was to the south. Playing fields were located to the north of the site by 1981.

Survival:

The site was occupied by a large school-type building from 1981 to 2015. This is likely to have caused substantial damage to sub-surface deposits within its footprint. The areas around the building may have been less disturbed, but the site was shown under development in 2018, and no associated archaeological investigations are recorded on the SMR.


No further archaeological investigations are likely to be required if further development is planned at the site.

Significance:

Negligible.


Aerial imagery from 2002-2015 shows a roughly rectangular building in the central part of the site, aligned northeast to southwest. It had a driveway and parking areas to the northwest and grassed grounds to the northeast and southeast. School buildings were shown to the south and southeast of the site, set within lawns. In 2017, the building had been demolished and its footprint cleared. The 2018 image shows the site stripped of



topsoil and undergoing redevelopment.


Google Earth 2002, 2003, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2014, 2015, 2017 & 2018.



04364/01 Medieval to Post-Medieval Period Road, Conisbrough

An ancient road turned left at Hill Top along what is now Old Road. The track now known as Firsby Lane forms a continuation of the old road. It is suggested that the combination is an ancient road from Conisbrough to Firsby and the pottery there, linking with Arbour Lane in Ravenfield parish and going on south. It is possibly a remnant of the Roman Ryknield Street.

Y



HSY5361 Old Road Schools, Conisbrough, Doncaster School Y Y



HSY5359 Post War Social Housing to the West of Conisbrough, Doncaster


HSY5360 Old Road playing fields, Conisbrough, Doncaster




Allocation Reference: 1084 Allocation Type: Housing Site Name: Prudential Chambers, 4 Silver Street






Summary

Within site Within buffer zone Scheduled Monument - - Listed Building - 54 SMR record/event - 37 records/36 events Cropmark/Lidar evidence No No Cartographic features of interest Yes No Estimated sub-surface disturbance Extensive n/a



Allocation Reference: 1084 Allocation Type: Housing Site Name: Prudential Chambers, 4 Silver Street



The SMR does not record any monuments, findspots or events within the site. There are 37 monuments or findspots and 36 events within the buffer. The earliest finds are of a late upper Palaeolithic stone tool and Neolithic to Bronze Age flints found near St Sepulchre Gate. Hall Gate follows the route of a Roman road, which has been confirmed by excavation in two locations. A fort was located at the northwest edge of the buffer, with an associated civilian settlement extending to the southeast and west. Roman settlement activity has been recorded to the southwest of the site off Cleveland Street, in an area that later formed part of a Carmelite Friary. A hoard of 24 Roman denarii was recorded just to the south of the site at the junction of High Street and Scot Lane in 1924, another hoard was recorded to the north at Bowers Fold and a third to the southwest of Hall Gate, with individual Roman coins found to the north near the Markets. A Roman cremation cemetery and settlement activity were found during excavations at Hall Gate and Wood Street in the southern part of the buffer. A medieval chapel was located to the north of the site, with an associated graveyard recorded during redevelopment of the Corn Exchange. Medieval settlement and industrial activity, including pottery manufacture, have been recorded throughout the buffer, with buildings and a road located within the former priory site to the southwest. Post-medieval to industrial period houses, workshops and market buildings (some still extant) are also recorded within the buffer.

The events within the buffer include building recording, as well as evaluations, excavations and watching briefs. The nearest to the site was archaeological monitoring just to the north, which did not encounter any archaeological remains. A watching brief during the cutting of a service trench along High Street and Hall Gate recorded probable remains of the surface of the Roman to medieval road. To the east of the site, evaluation at 10-14 Hall Gate recorded Roman, medieval and post-medieval activity, including the Roman road, which sealed an earlier ditch and fence line. To the southeast, evaluation and excavation at 58-59 Hall Gate encountered several phases of late medieval and post-medieval occupation and activity, including 16th- to 17th-century stone buildings, one containing an oven. A Roman pit was also recorded at the site. At a greater distance, the Roman cremation cemetery, Roman and medieval remains to the north and south of Hall Gate and Wood Street were recovered during archaeological investigations in advance of development, and a medieval building was recorded to the east off Hall Gate. Remains of the medieval priory and town ditch as well as earlier Roman occupation and residual prehistoric material were recovered during excavations between Cleveland Street and St Sepulchre Gate in the southwest part of the buffer, and a medieval chapel and graveyard were recorded below the Corn Exchange at the northeast.

There are no Scheduled Monuments, listed buildings or registered parks within the site. Within the buffer there are 54 listed buildings, the nearest to the site being nos. 5-7A along Hall Gate to the southeast, all grade II listed. The grade I listed Mansion House is to the south of High Street and southwest of the site, and the grade II* Market Hall is in the northwest part of the buffer. The other listed buildings within the buffer are grade II listed houses, banks, inns, shops and churches.


Historic Environment Characterisation records the present character of the site and the southeast part of the buffer as part of the Hallgate urban commercial core, where many of the current buildings date to the late 18th to early 19th centuries, but lie within medieval tenement plots, which formerly extended further north. Further character zones within the buffer include further commercial core development within burgage plots to the west, markets to the north, shopping centres and 18th- to 20th-century commercial core buildings to the north, southwest and south, industrial buildings to the east, terraced housing at Priory Place to the south and near Hall Gate to the southeast, and car parking at the southeast edge.

Recent aerial imagery (2017) shows that the site comprises part of a four-storey building with a flat roof.




The 1852 OS town plan shows the site as part of a building fronting onto Silver Street with a yard and offshot to the east. By 1930, the site was shown as part of a new building adjoining structures to the north and south. By 1961, this had either been rebuilt or subdivided into smaller buildings, of which the site was one. No further changes were shown by 1972, which is the last available detailed map of the site.

Within the buffer, the 1852 OS town plan depicted the St Leger Tavern to the immediate north of the site, and indicated the site of the town ditch running along Silver Street, with the site of a stone bridge to the south at the junction of Silver Street and High Street. Houses, gardens and inns were shown within narrow plots in the surrounding streets, often with development stretching along the rear of the plots. There was no substantial change by 1906, but by 1930 some redevelopment with larger buildings was shown to the north of the site, including a cinema. By 1961, another cinema had been built in the eastern part of the buffer, and a large garage was shown in the northern part of the buffer. The northern cinema had probably been demolished and redeveloped by 1969.

Survival:

The site is part of a larger early 20th-century building, which is likely to have caused some truncation to below-ground deposits. Though it is not listed, the building itself may constitute a heritage asset in its own right. The potential for the survival of buried archaeological remains is unknown, though there may be a slight potential for the survival in limited areas below the building. The site is on the edge of the medieval town and adjacent to the supposed line of the town ditch, as well as being close to a Roman road. Extensive remains of Roman and medieval settlement have been recorded within the vicinity, and a medieval pottery industry was also located within this area.



Significance:

The standing building may be considered to be of Local archaeological interest. Buried remains associated with Roman and medieval settlement or industry could be considered to be of Local to Regional significance depending on their extent, nature and condition.


Aerial imagery from 2002-2017 shows the site as part of a larger building apparently all of the same construction, with a circular domed 'tower' at the southeast corner of Silver Street and High Street. The building is four storeys in height, with a flat roof, and is of red-brick construction in an early 20th-century style. The site is a narrow part of the building, named Prudential Chambers, with an impressive door flanked by moulded columns, and decorative stone cornice and eaves mouldings.





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There was a pottery manufactory in Hallgate in the late 13th and early 14th centuries. The main products comprised jugs, pipkins, pancheons and some roof tiles. The kiln, defined as probably being a Type 2A two-flued, updraught kiln, was found with three pits all containing pottery wasters

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Notched flint dagger found St Sepulchre Gate in 1937. Y



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Dupondious of Faustina I under the floor of the market hall in 1967. Rome mint A.D. 86.

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Excavations southwest of the main north-south Roman Road produced "slight Roman features" and, disturbed in a medieval pit, a hoard of 15 C2 AE coins, 3 intagli (two mounted in rings), 3 brooches and a surgeon's knife.

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Limestone walls of a possible cellar were revealed in section during evaluation. The backfill was cut by a pit containing late medieval pottery. Some structural features survived, possibly industrial in origin. The medieval street frontages seem to have been disturbed by later cellars, though the baulks between cellars may retain archaeological deposits.

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Rubble remnants of a limestone wall of angular stone pieces, overlain by a later post-medieval wall base were found in archaeological excavations. A large pit may have been for medieval sand extraction. A multi-period pottery assemblage is likely to have been dumped there after the extraction, along with redeposited material.

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A watching brief on the demolition of structures at the rear of 49 Market Place located "a hollow-sounding spot" under the floor of the cellar. The area underneath a flagstone was investigated. Within the deposits were an array of cultural materials dating to the 19th and 20th centuries. The depth of the pit reached 60cm.

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04500/01 Romano-British Settlement at

From an excavation of a single trench, there were found to be abundant remains dated to the Roman period, including

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Wood Street, Doncaster

pottery consisting mainly of locally produced greyware, simple field boundary ditches and a pit. These, and other finds, imply that a domestic settlement once occupied this site.


Evaluation in 1996 identified a large feature in the north of the site, from which medieval material was recovered. This is likely to have been the medieval town ditch of Doncaster, known to have occupied this approximate area. A large Medieval ditch identified to the west [see PIN00422/04] is likely to be a continuation of this feature.

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Archaeological investigation revealed pottery fragments, most from a pit-like feature with burnt soils, interpreted as a possible pottery kiln. There was no other evidence to indicate the extent of pottery manufacture in this vicinity. The fabric of the waster sherds compares closely with Doncaster Hallgate 'C' fabric. From the style of the pottery, it has been suggested that the manufactory was active somewhere between the 11th and first half of the 12th century.

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A pottery kiln identified on excavations at Wood Street is the same type as others found in the Hall Gate area. The ceramic material found in the kiln and associated features suggests a 1th-12th century date.

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Before the Market Hall and Corn Exchange could be built in the late 19th century there was considerable clearance of the market area. This included demolition of the Butchers' Shambles, removal of the Butter Cross and demolition of the Town Hall. Excavations on the site of the Corn Exchange provided evidence for former back-to-back tenements, and a

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possible linen workshop.



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05378 Late Upper Paleolithic point, St Sepulchre Gate, Doncaster


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Roman remains excavated in 1976-7, sealed by a 12th century road surface. The features consisted of a construction trench and possible wall foundations, along with the remains of a surface and several post holes or small pits. The Roman features were mid-late 2nd century.

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A long section across the site on a north-south axis was created by the removal of much of the site. The section was cleaned and drawn. [The monument record mentions the rubble remnants of a limestone wall of possible medieval date and unknown function, overlain by a post-medieval wall base on a different alignment.]

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An archaeological excavation was undertaken in advance of site redevelopment, in an area of recently demolished buildings. Cellarage had truncated the south-eastern part of the site to 1.8m below modern ground level, while the remainder of the site comprised rough ground. [No details of

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results.]


The site lay at the heart of medieval Doncaster, close to the reputed position of the medieval town ditch. The trial excavation in this area in foundations [seems like a chunk of words is missing here]. Romano-British features were also recorded.

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An archaeological field evaluation to the rear of 53 Hallgate and 9 Wood Street revealed a multi-phase occupation of the site.[No details of results. The monument record suggests Roman inhumations and cremations were found, probably the edge of a cemetery. Later Roman features cut the cremations.]

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ESY856 Archaeological Field Evaluation Corn Exchange, Market Place,

A field evaluation was undertaken within the Corn Exchange during refurbishment following serious fire damage. Several burials associated with the medieval chapel of St Mary

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Doncaster Magdalene were recorded.


In 1995, an archaeological excavation was undertaken within the Corn Exchange to investigate the area of medieval burials, and to excavate and record post-medieval structures underlying the rubble fill encountered during the evaluation. Eleven articulated burials were exposed and examined, together with a large quantity of disarticulated human remains. The articulated skeletons were all aligned E-W and laid out with arms across the pelvis. The burials also appeared to be set in rows, and the density of inhumations was quite high. The boundary of the cemetery was found to extend further than originally anticipated, to a point some 50 metres to the north of the site of the church. In addition to the cemetery the excavation revealed a sequence of post-medieval activity on site. This included a large tenement structure, a possible workshop associated with the linen trade, and an unidentified workshop or outbuilding.

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An archaeological watching brief on the corner of Prince's Street and East Laith Gate, during the excavation of a foundation trench for a five storey building, revealed a series of modern and redeposited natural deposits. No archaeologically significant remains were identified.

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A watching brief during refurbishment, with the monitoring of two foundation holes for column bases in the cellar, and four trenches for drainage at ground floor level. Made ground was encountered below the existing surfaces, and nothing of archaeological interest was recorded.

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An archaeological watching brief undertaken at Priory Walk revealed the remains of a well of unknown date to the south of the site and a probable Victorian culvert to the northeast of the area. Later remains relating to the foundations and cellarage of post-medieval and modern buildings were found across the majority of the site.

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ESY874 Archaeological Building Recording at Doncaster College, Waterdale, Doncaster, South Yorkshire

Drawn and photographic building survey. The Chequer Road Boys Elementary School was built to a central hall design so that pupils could gather for special occasions. The 1926 Girls and Infants building adopted elements of the more hygienic Pavilion ventilated style of building. The 1910 High School for Girls had elements of the new thinking and a more ornate façade. The 1958 Technical College was built to serve the mining and engineering industries in and around Doncaster.

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An archaeological excavation undertaken during levelling work on a temporary car park identified the robber trench of the late Roman fort wall and a gravel road surface that may have formed part of a medieval road running behind medieval tenements fronting onto Market Place. A further trial trench identified the line of the inner 'burh' ditch and a possible recut, with the outer 'burh' ditch also investigated. A late 15th-century cess pit, the walls of a post-medieval building and two ovens, were also recovered.

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A medieval pottery kiln was discovered to the northeast of Hall Gate during excavations in 1964 and 1965, prior to the construction of the Bradford Row shopping centre. Also pits

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containing pottery wasters, from late 12th to early 14th century date.



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ESY1479 Excavations at Waterdale, Doncaster

Excavations ahead of redevelopment revealed a cremation cemetery of 1st-2nd century date, containing 20-30 individuals, along with a small number of inhumations of 3rd/4th century date. Post-medieval features included mineral extraction pits and WWI trenches used during recruitment exercises.

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Excavation for foundation trenches within a burnt out building were monitored but no archaeological features were encountered.

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HSY5918 Hall Gate, Doncaster Commercial Core-Urban Y Y








Markets Y










HSY5919 South end of Hall Gate, Doncaster Terraced Housing Y



Terraced Housing Y




Allocation Reference: 1085 Allocation Type: Housing Site Name: 7-9 Scot Lane, Doncaster






Summary




Allocation Reference: 1085 Allocation Type: Housing Site Name: 7-9 Scot Lane, Doncaster



The SMR does not record any monuments, findspots or events within the site. There are 53 monuments or findspots and 47 events within the buffer. The earliest finds are of a late upper Palaeolithic stone tool and Neolithic to Bronze Age flints found near St Sepulchre Gate. High Street follows the route of a Roman road, which has been confirmed by excavation in two locations on High Street and Hall Gate. A fort was located at the northwest side of the buffer, with an associated civilian settlement extending to the south and west. Roman settlement activity has been recorded to the south of the site off Cleveland Street, in an area that later formed part of a Carmelite Friary. A hoard of 24 Roman denarii was recorded just to the south of the site at the junction of High Street and Scot Lane in 1924, and another hoard was recorded to the northeast, with individual Roman coins found to the north near the Markets. A Roman cremation cemetery and settlement activity were found during excavations at Hall Gate and Wood Street in the southeast part of the buffer. Early medieval activity, including a possible defended 'burh' were recorded within the area of the fort, and a Norman period motte and bailey castle was also constructed in this area. A medieval chapel was located to the north of the site, with an associated graveyard recorded during redevelopment of the Corn Exchange. Medieval settlement and industrial activity, including pottery manufacture, have been recorded throughout the buffer, as well as post-medieval to industrial period houses, workshops and market buildings (some still extant).

The numerous events within the buffer have recorded remains of largely Roman to post-medieval settlement and industrial activity. Those closest to the site include an evaluation at 5-10 High Street to the west, which recorded Roman deposits and features, including the remains of buildings and a rare double burial, as well as the edge of the Roman road. Medieval remains were confined to artefactual material. Evaluations just to the north of this recorded remains of a possible medieval building and an industrial-period cellar. To the south of High Street, various archaeological investigations revealed Roman settlement remains and features associated with the town ditch and a medieval Carmelite Priory.

There are no Scheduled Monuments, listed buildings or registered parks within the site. Within the buffer, there are 51 listed buildings, the nearest of which are the former Yorkshire Bank at the junction of Scot Lane and High Street, an adjacent National Westminster Bank and various grade II listed houses, banks and shops on fronting onto High Street. The grade I listed Mansion House is to the south of High Street opposite Scot Lane, and the grade II* Market Hall is to the north of the site. The other buildings within the buffer are grade II listed.


Historic Environment Characterisation records the present character of the site and the areas to the east, west and south as part of an area of historic burgage plots in the urban commercial core. Many of these medieval to post-medieval plot boundaries are retained in the plan form of the area. Other character zones within the buffer include markets to the north, shopping centres and 18th- to 20th-century commercial core buildings to the north, west and south, St George's Church to the northwest edge, industrial buildings to the east, terraced housing at Priory Place to the south, and ring roads at the northern edge.

Recent aerial imagery (2017) shows the site occupied by a three-storey flat roofed building on the eastern, Scot Lane frontage, with an adjoining flat-roofed building to the west.


The 1852 OS town plan shows the site containing two to three buildings fronting onto Scot Lane, with outbuildings to the west. There was a pedestrian access below one of the street front buildings leading to the structures to the rear. One of the street-front buildings appeared to have been enlarged or merged by 1902, but this had been demolished by 1930, when site was shown as vacant. A new building was shown by 1937, with a vehicular access at the southern end to a narrow rear yard. This was unchanged in 1970, with no further detailed mapping available.



Within the buffer, the 1852 town plan shows dense development of buildings within narrow plots surrounding the site, with buildings including terraced houses, inns, banks and probably shops. The Mansion House was in the southern part of the buffer, and the Market Place, New Market hall and a theatre on the site of St Mary Magdalene's chapel were to the north. The Corn Exchange had been added in the Market Place by 1894. Silver Street was labelled as the site of the Town Ditch. The theatre in the Market Place had been demolished by 1902. Cinemas were shown within the west and east parts of the buffer by 1930, and by 1961 some of the buildings within the buffer appeared to have been redeveloped and replaced with substantially larger structures. No clear details of changes are visible on the less-detailed 1992 OS map.

Survival:

The site is occupied by a three-storey building with a shop on the ground floor and possible offices or accommodation above. The building to the rear is likely office space, and both appear to date to the 1930s. The site was occupied by buildings, probably houses or shops, in the mid-19th century. Sub-surface deposits within the majority of the site are likely to have been truncated by the construction of the buildings and any associated cellarage or sub-surface elements; however, the nature of the foundations is not known, and it is possible that there are some pockets of surviving remains. The site is within an area where Roman and medieval settlement remains have been recorded, some from the close vicinity, and similar remains could extend into the site.



Significance:

Unknown. Remains associated with the Roman fort and civilian settlement, and with medieval settlement could be considered to be of Local to Regional significance depending on their extent, nature and condition.


Aerial imagery from 2002-2017 shows a large flat roofed building within the eastern side of the site, with a four-storey flat-roofed building to the rear, appearing to be set at a lower level than the street front building. Street View shows this as a three-storey building of mid-20th-century appearance, of brick construction with a shop front along the ground floor frontage on Scot Lane. The upper storeys have metal-framed windows divided by a moulded stone sill, and everted stone cornice. The building to the rear is also of brick construction, with a taller lift tower between the two buildings. There is a vehicular entrance through the lower storey of the Scot Lane frontage.





Site? Buffer?

1031509 Co-Coperative Emporium and Danum House II Y
















1151431 Former Woollen Market Hall to north of the Magdalen Hotel II Y




1151447 Minster Church of St George I Y








































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00457/01 St George's Church, Doncaster

St George's is an impressive Victorian church on the site of a fine medieval building that was destroyed by fire in 1853. The only relic that survives of this earlier church is a vaulted crypt, roofed with medieval cross slabs, beneath the modern vestry and organ chamber. Burials from the early 18th century to 19th century extension to the original graveyard at St George's Church were identified in Church Way during redevelopment.

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Notched flint dagger found St Sepulchregate in 1937. Y

00782/01 Site of the Guildhall on Frenchgate,

A 1969 excavation on site of Guildhall found several floors dating back to the 14th century. (For finds see PIN 783).

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Doncaster



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00785/01 Possible Saxon Burh defences, Doncaster

A 1972 excavation recorded a ditch at High Fishergate. Clean sand and gravel contents suggested a late Saxon date for the ditch, which was then backfilled by builders of the Norman castle. A large ditch identified on this alignment at High Fishergate in 2006 suggested it may be part of the Roman fort.

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Remains possibly of the York-Lincoln Road were discovered during excavation at Frenchgate.

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Roman coin hoard - 63 AR Denarii and 4 AE coins (Galba - Marcus Aurelius) were found in 1929 in a lorry load of earth from Baxter Gate that was dumped on the Wheatley Hills Estate. About 40 further coins found at the same location but dispersed.

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01786/01 Roman Coin Hoard and Iron Key found in Doncaster Town Centre

Hoard of 7 siliquae and an iron key found in build-up behind Roman Fort rampart during archaeological excavation in 1966, within area now covered by Littlewoods store. Coins cover period 337-388 A.D.

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Roman bronze harp shaped brooch of an elegant design with pin missing.

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04438/01 Mid/Late 4th Century Midden Assemblage, Doncaster

During a foundation trench excavation, a large amount of bone was unearthed. The trench was c. 1.5 x 1.5 x 0.4m, and cut the existing concrete flooring. The bone belonged to species such as cattle, deer and dog, and were from butchery refuse. Found in context with the remains were two rim sherds dating to the mid/late 4th century A.D.

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Evaluation in 1996 identified a large feature in the north of the site, from which medieval material was recovered. This is likely to have been the medieval town ditch of Doncaster, known to have occupied this approximate area. A large medieval ditch identified to the west [see PIN00422/04] is

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likely to be a continuation of this feature.



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Evidence for post-10th century medieval activity was recorded on this site at High Fisher Gate. This was suggestive of domestic occupation with small scale industrial activity, probably within domestic yards. Iron slag and a smithing hearth indicate metalworking. Evidence from animal bones indicate that some primary butchery was occurring nearby and possibly skinning for tanning. By the 11th to 12th centuries this area was a religious and commercial focus of the town.

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Before the Market Hall and Corn Exchange could be built in the late 19th century there was considerable clearance of the market area. This included demolition of the Butchers' Shambles, removal of the Butter Cross and demolition of the Town Hall. Excavations on the site of the Corn Exchange provided evidence for former back-to-back tenements, and a

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possible linen workshop.



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A stone-lined pit, a well or cess pit, was noted by A B Sumpter during observation of the construction of Church Way, Doncaster, in 1971. [SMR records medieval cess pits, wells and tanning activity nearby]

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ESY743 High Fisher Gate, Doncaster, South

An archaeological excavation on the site of a former supermarket recorded ditches relating to the Roman fort

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Yorkshire defences, along with medieval wells and pits. Finds included Roman, medieval and post-medieval pottery, Roman coins dating to mid-4th century AD, ceramic building materials and a glass bead. A large, putative Saxon ditch projected to run through the site was determined to be of likely Roman date.


An archaeological excavation was undertaken in advance of site redevelopment, in an area of recently demolished buildings. Cellarage had truncated the south-eastern part of the site to 1.8m below modern ground level, while the remainder of the site comprised rough ground. [No details of results.]

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The site lay at the heart of medieval Doncaster, close to the reputed position of the medieval town ditch. The trial excavation in this area in foundations [seems like a chunk of words is missing here]. Romano-British features were also recorded.

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ESY850 Report on a second Phase Excavation of Archaeological remains on land off

A second phase archaeological investigation on land off Wood Street, Doncaster aimed to investigate more fully a number of features of Roman date. This revealed what is believed to be part of a Romano-British settlement site of probably 2nd

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Wood Street, Doncaster

century date.



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ESY852 Archaeological Watching Brief at High Fisher Gate, Doncaster, South Yorkshire

In 1998 a watching brief was conducted on the excavation of a pipe trench across High Fishergate on the edge of the Market Place. The trench was excavated in previously disturbed ground and nothing of archaeological interest or significance was encountered.

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In 1995, an archaeological excavation was undertaken within the Corn Exchange to investigate the area of medieval burials, and to excavate and record post-medieval structures underlying the rubble fill encountered during the evaluation. Eleven articulated burials were exposed and examined, together with a large quantity of disarticulated human remains. The articulated skeletons were all aligned E-W and laid out with arms across the pelvis. The burials also appeared to be set in rows, and the density of inhumations was quite high. The boundary of the cemetery was found to extend further than originally anticipated, to a point some 50 metres to the north of the site of the church. In addition to the cemetery the excavation revealed a sequence of post-medieval activity on site. This included a large tenement structure, a possible workshop associated with the linen trade, and an unidentified workshop or outbuilding.

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Following identification in a watching brief, there was an excavation of human and other remains in the central reservation of Church Way West.

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A watching brief was undertaken during refurbishment, with the monitoring of two foundation holes for column bases in the cellar, and four trenches for drainage at ground floor level. Made ground was encountered below the existing surfaces, and nothing of archaeological interest was recorded.

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An archaeological watching brief undertaken at Priory Walk, Doncaster revealed the remains of a well of unknown date to the south of the site and a probable Victorian culvert to the northeast of the area. Later remains relating to the foundations and cellarage of post-medieval and modern buildings were found across the majority of the site.

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A programme of archaeological mitigation during construction works for the Doncaster North Bridge Project included a watching brief carried out across this area. [No details of results]

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ESY1039 Guildhall and Frenchgate 1969-70

Archaeological excavations were undertaken in 1969-70 after the demolition of the 19th-century Guildhall. The trenches did not find the postulated line of the 'Castle Ditch', but recorded part of the cobbled yard of the post medieval Old Angel Inn.

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ESY1042 Church Way, Children's Library 1970

A limited excavation was undertaken on the site of the library. A large ditch containing residual Roman pottery and medieval pottery may have been part of the bailey ditch of the Norman Castle. It then appears that this area may have been kept clear until the construction of the Old Angel Hotel in the post-medieval period, with the 18th-century cobbling of the hotel's yard recorded, directly beneath the footings of the Church School, built in 1821, and those of the 1901 Children's Library.

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Archaeological features were recorded on the western side of St George Gate during the construction of an extension to a department store. This required the demolition of 18th century properties, with excavations to a depth of 5m. The robber trench of the later Roman fort wall was recorded on the southwest side of the site, along with part of a parallel large ditch interpreted as a section of the Anglo-Saxon period inner 'burh' defences. A timber-lined well of probable 14th-century date was found on the northern side of the site. This was located on the line of the 'burh' defences, and suggests that they had gone out of use by this time.

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ESY1046 High Fisher Gate 1972

An archaeological excavation was undertaken to the east of St George's Church. This identified the base of the ditch of the Roman Flavian era fort, and the shallow remains of a late Roman ditch. Parts of the inner and outer ditches of a post-Roman 'burh' were also identified. The edge of one ditch was within 2.5m of the foundations of the Roman wall. Most of the ditch fill seems to have accumulated from the erosion of a bank on its southwest side. The fill contained a range of pottery, from residual Roman pieces and a sherd of Saxon pot, to medieval Hallgate ware. This may suggest a process of infilling lasting from the later 12th century to the 14th century.

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Excavations of foundations of the new building's footprint revealed mainly Roman archaeology, including building remains, wells, gullies and pits. A rare double inhumation burial was also found, as well as the edge of the Lincoln-York Roman road and ditch. Amongst the medieval and post-medieval features was a possible copper smelting pit, a

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limekiln, four wells and stone walls with ashlar masonry. Medieval finds were mainly pottery and animal bone.


An archaeological excavation was undertaken in 1966, during levelling work on the site of a temporary car park, in the angle between Baxter Gate to the south-east, and St George Gate to the west. The substantial robber trench of the late Roman fort wall was identified, with a fill including a 14th century long-cross penny. A probable medieval compact gravel road surface was also recorded, which may have formed part of a road running behind the medieval tenements which front onto Market Place.

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ESY1563 Marks and Spencers department store, Frenchgate Watching Brief


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HSY5796 St Georges Minster, Doncaster Religious (Worship) Y









Markets Y

HSY5822 North Eastern corner of Market Place, Doncaster

Markets Y












HSY5932 St Sepulchre Gate, Doncaster Commercial Core-Suburban Y


HSY5798 Superstore, (former French Gate area), North Bridge Road, Doncaster

Shopping Centre Y


HSY5802 Markets Gyratory System, Doncaster Motorway and Trunk Road Junctions

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Markets Y

HSY5822 North Eastern corner of Market Place, Doncaster

Markets Y













Allocation Reference:1086 Allocation Type: Housing Site Name: Site Of Former Westminster Club, Intake






Summary

Within site Within buffer zone Scheduled Monument - - Listed Building - - SMR record/event -/- -/- Cropmark/Lidar evidence No No Cartographic features of interest No No Estimated sub-surface disturbance Partial n/a



Allocation Reference:1086 Allocation Type: Housing Site Name: Site Of Former Westminster Club, Intake



The SMR does not record any monuments, findspots or events within the site or the buffer zone.


The Magnesian Limestone in South and West Yorkshire Aerial Photographic Mapping Project did not record any features within the site or buffer.

Historic Environment Characterisation records the site and much of the buffer as the mid-20th-century Intake planned social housing estate. Other character zones within the buffer include later 20th-century high-rise flats to the south, civil and municipal buildings and a church to the southwest and 1930s housing to the west, with a small area of woodland at the northeast edge.

Recent aerial imagery (2017) shows the site as a vacant plot, cleared of buildings.


The 1854 OS map shows the site as part of Heather Wood and the site was unchanged in 1937. By 1956, Westminster Crescent had been laid out along the northeast edge of the site, which was still undeveloped at that date. By 1960, the Westminster Recreational Club had been built within the northeast part of the site, whilst the southwest part was within a field or area of open scrubland. By 1969, part of this area formed a yard or grounds to the club, whist the southwest area was divided off and may have been grounds associated with buildings to the south. This layout was still shown in 1993, though the southwest edge had been amalgamated with the rest of the site by 2002.

Within the buffer, the 1854 OS map shows Armthorpe Road crossing the northern tip, with Heather Wood occupying most of the remainder, further woodland called Rush Beds to the south and fields at the western edge. By 1892, Rush Beds was incorporated into a larger area of woodland heading south, called Wheatley Low Wood. Between 1937 and 1956, a road system was laid out through the southern and central part of the buffer, with some housing constructed at the east, south and southwest edges. Heather Wood had been reduced to a strip along the northern side of the buffer, south of Armthorpe Road. Houses had been built to the immediate north and west of the site by 1960.

Survival:

The northeast side of the site contained substantial two-storey club buildings by 1960, which have been recently demolished. The southwest side of the site appears to have been less disturbed, but the area was part of a wood from at least the mid-19th century to the mid-20th century, and tree roots and preparation of the ground for the housing estate may have caused some disturbance to sub-surface deposits in this area. The archaeological potential within the footprint of the building is considered to be negligible. Within the yard area to the southwest, the potential is considered to be low. No archaeological remains have been recorded within the buffer.



Significance:

Negligible.




Aerial imagery from 2002 shows the northeast part of the site occupied by a building with several linked elements, mostly flat roofed. The southwest half of the site was a hard-surfaced yard. The buildings had been demolished and the site cleared between 2012 and 2014. Street View showed the buildings as mostly two-storey, labelled Westminster Club, and built largely of yellowish bricks. They were shown as disused and the site surrounded by hoardings in 2012.





HSY5101 Intake Estate, Doncaster Planned Estate (Social Housing) Y Y

HSY5091 Shaftesbury Avenue, Intake, Doncaster Civil & Municipal Buildings Y

HSY5094 Heather Wood, Armthorpe Road, Doncaster Semi Natural Woodland Y

HSY5095 Shaftesbury Avenue, Intake, Doncaster High Rise Flats Y

HSY5099 Lansdowne Road, Intake, Doncaster Religious (Worship) Y

HSY5103 Tudor Road, Intake Doncaster Planned Estate (Social Housing) Y



Allocation Reference: 1087 Allocation Type: Housing Site Name: Narrow Lane, Bawtry and Bawtry Road, Austerfield

Area (Ha): 3.63 NGR (centre): SK 6563 9399 Settlement: Bawtry





Summary

Within site Within buffer zone Scheduled Monument - - Listed Building - - SMR record/event - 3 records/1 event Cropmark/Lidar evidence No Yes Cartographic features of interest No Yes Estimated sub-surface disturbance Low n/a



Allocation Reference: 1087 Allocation Type: Housing Site Name: Narrow Lane, Bawtry and Bawtry Road, Austerfield

Area (Ha): 3.63 NGR (centre): SK 6563 9399 Settlement: Bawtry


The SMR does not record any monuments or events within the site. One monument, two findspots and one event are recorded in the buffer zone. The monument relates to a probable Iron Age to Roman field system recorded from cropmarks at Gally Hills in the western part of the buffer, in an area that has been developed for housing. The event comprised evaluation of this monument, which identified two ditches that contained no dating material but could be Iron Age field boundaries, as well as modern features including field drains and quarrying. The two findspots comprise a Roman brooch and a medieval Scottish silver penny, but the exact locations where these were found are unknown. Just outside the buffer to the south, a watching brief identified remains of a structure that may be associated with a Roman temple or shrine.


The National Mapping Project aerial mapping programme recorded possible Iron Age field boundary ditches within the eastern part of the buffer, in the area covered by archaeological evaluation (see above).

Historic Environment Characterisation records the present character of the majority of the site and the eastern part of the buffer as agglomerated fields, where later 20th-century boundary loss has removed the former character of strip fields probably enclosed from medieval open field prior to 1766. The southeast tip of the site is part of a small private housing estate that extends southwest into the buffer. Other character zones within the buffer include a sand and gravel quarry to the north and regenerated scrubland on part of the former quarry to the northeast, agglomerated fields to the northwest, modern private and social housing estates and a works yard to the west, piecemeal enclosure from medieval open field to the south and valley floor meadows at the southeast tip.

Historic landfill data records a strip of infilled land at the northeast edge of the buffer, named Narrow Lane, but no further details are given. This is shown on historic mapping as a 19th-century sand and gravel pit.

Recent aerial photography (2016) shows the larger part of the site as a field in arable cultivation. The narrow southeast part of the site contains currently a house fronting onto Thorne Road and a strip of garden land to the rear, with hedges and trees along the boundaries. The house is of brick construction in a plain, later-20th-century style.


The 1854 OS map showed the larger northern part of the site as four narrow fields with boundaries aligned northwest to southeast, bounded on the south by Narrow Lane and on the west by the Great Northern Railway Line. The southeast part of the site was part of a field south of Narrow Lane and north of the Bawtry and Selby turnpike road, with the current southwest boundary shown at that date. A square feature at the southeast end is of uncertain function (possibly a pond); it was circular on the 1899 map and not depicted in 1921. One field boundary in the main part of the site had been removed by 1922, when the current northwest boundary had been established as the edge of a railway line. A further boundary had been removed by 1948, when the southeast end of the site appears to have been a narrow gap between new houses to the east and west. The 1961 map suggests that by this end was part of a garden for the house to the southwest at that date, whilst the rest of the southeast part of the site was a narrow field, with the first depiction of its northeast boundary. By 1985, the southeast end had been divided off from the adjacent house, and a new house built within the site, with no boundary separating it from the narrow strip of land to the northwest. The northeast boundary was shown as a dashed rather than solid line, possibly indicating it was part of the larger field.

Within the buffer, the 1854 map shows the area as fields, mainly narrow with slightly sinuous boundaries suggestive of strip fields enclosed from medieval open field. Dam Bridge was shown along Narrow Lane to the northeast of the site, over a stream or drainage ditch. The Great Northern Railway ran through the west side of the buffer on a roughly north-south alignment, with Bawtry station and turntables to the southwest. A sand pit at Pingle Hill at the northern edge of the buffer was no longer depicted in 1893, by which date two buildings were



shown between the site and the railway to the north of Narrow Lane, and a house had been built to the south of Narrow Lane. This had been demolished and replaced with a pair of semi-detached houses in 1902, within a small enclosure to the west of the site. Between 1922 and 1929, a second pair had been built adjacent, and three detached houses were shown along the Thorne Road frontage, immediately west of the site. The Bawtry and Haxey Railway had been constructed in the northwest part of the buffer by 1922. In 1929, new sand pits were shown just to the north and east of the site. By 1948, further housing was being constructed to the west and two houses were shown to the immediate east of the southeast end of the site. By 1962, the area between the southeast part of the site and the railway line had all been developed with detached and semi-detached houses. Another house and outbuildings had been constructed to the northeast by 1985. A kennels had been built to the immediate north of the site by 1992, when the sand pits were no longer shown. The station was disused by that date, and works buildings shown on its site, whilst the Bawtry and Haxey Railway had been dismantled..

Survival:

The majority of the site has been fields and a garden since at least the mid-19th century, and cultivation may have caused some truncation of sub-surface deposits. Below the zone affected by ploughing, the conditions for the survival of buried archaeological remains is considered to be good. Iron Age to Roman archaeology, including field boundaries and a possible shrine, have been recorded in the vicinity, and there is the potential for similar remains to extend into the site. The construction of the house at the southeast edge of the site is likely to have caused significant disturbance to sub-surface deposits within its footprint, and the potential here is considered to be low.


Further archaeological investigations are likely to be required if the site is brought forward for development.

Significance:

Unknown. Remains associated with Iron Age to Roman fields and settlement could be considered to be of Local to Regional significance depending on their extent, nature and condition.


Aerial imagery from 2002 shows the main part of the site as a single field, with a hedge along the northeast boundary. This was mostly shown as grassed between 2002 and 2016, but occasionally has been ploughed and cultivated. The west side of the site is bounded by an area of scrub vegetation on a former railway line. The southeast part of the site contained a house at the south end with a narrow strip to the north. The northwest half of the strip appeared to be rough grass or hay, with trees dotted around the edges. The southeast half was a more maintained lawn, with a possible ornamental pond in the centre. The boundary with the field to the northeast appeared minimal, but was shown as a low hedge in 2004. A formal fence divided the southeast and northwest halves of the garden by 2008, with a trellis-type gateway. The house at the southeast end has a garage and a conservatory to the north. Lidar coverage shows several small hollows and earthworks within the southeast part of the site, but these are likely to be garden features, not of archaeological origin. The main part of the field contains no visible earthworks, apart from a probable drainage ditch at the northeast edge.


Google Earth coverage 2002, 2003, 2004, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2012, 2015 & 2016. Street View 2016. Lidar 1m DTM.





02323/01 Cropmarks showing Iron Age to Romano-British field system, Bawtry

Gally Hills field system - crop marks site found from Aerial Photos taken 7/7/1984. Bunter sandstone, brown earths.

Y

02820/01 Medieval Scottish Silver Penny, found near Bawtry

Medieval Scottish silver penny of Alexander III (1249-1286). Y

02825/01 Roman Brooch found near Bawtry

Late 1st-century AD brooch with trails of enamel on the expanded box.

Y

ESY463 Gradiometer Survey and Trial Trenching on Land at Gally Hills, Bawtry

In 1997 a gradiometer survey showed the presence of linear anomalies and evidence for modern field drains, field boundaries and quarrying activity. Other anomalies were identified that may be archaeological and could form a ladder enclosure. Limited trial trench evaluation of the area early in 1998 revealed mainly modern intrusive features but also the presence of two undated (Iron Age?) ditches.

Y



HSY4587 Narrow Lane, Bawtry, Doncaster Agglomerated fields Y Y

HSY4495 Austerfield, Quarry, Austerfield, Doncaster Other Mineral Extraction & Processing

Y

HSY4562 Thorne Road, Bawtry, Doncaster Piecemeal Enclosure Y

HSY4564 Gally Hills, Bawtry, Doncaster Agglomerated fields Y

HSY4565 ex gravel pit, Austerfield, Doncaster Regenerated Scrubland Y

HSY5531 Harewood Drive, Bawtry, Doncaster Private Housing Estate Y

HSY5535 Bawtry Station Yard, Bawtry, Doncaster Other Industry Y

HSY5538 Stirling Avenue, Bawtry, Doncaster Private Housing Estate Y

HSY5572 Highfield Road, Bawtry, Doncaster Private Housing Estate Y

HSY5591 Housing to the south of Austerfield, Doncaster Private Housing Estate Y



Allocation Reference:1088 Allocation Type: Mixed use Site Name: Land South West of Conisbrough



Archaeological significance of site Regional/Unknown


Suitability of site for allocation Major/uncertain archaeological constraint

Summary

Within site Within buffer zone Scheduled Monument - - Listed Building - - SMR record/event 13/3 11/2 Cropmark/Lidar evidence Yes Yes Cartographic features of interest Yes Yes Estimated sub-surface disturbance Partial n/a



Allocation Reference: 1088 Allocation Type: Mixed use Site Name: Land South West of Conisbrough



The SMR records 12 monuments, one findspot and three events within the site. Eleven monuments and two events are within the buffer. Monuments within the site include an Iron Age to Roman enclosure an associated ditches in the northwest part of the site, and a more fragmentary cropmark of probable similar date in the northeast part of the site. Further enclosures are recorded at the south end of the site at Braithwell Common. A Roman villa is recorded at Clifton Farm, where investigations have indicated well-preserved stone wall footings of buildings including an aisled hall and bath house. Remains associated with the villa are thought to cover a wider area than the recorded site to the southwest of the farm, and furnaces and iron smelting waste of probable Roman and medieval date have also been found in this area. It is suggested in the SMR to be one of the most important sites in the region dating to this period in terms of the remains and their state of preservation. A section of stone drain has been recorded to the south of the villa site and is thought to be associated.

The site contains the majority of the supposed area of Consibrough Deer Park, a Royal hunting park associated with the castle at Conisbrough. The park is thought to have been one of the largest in the county, and may have originated in the early medieval period, when Conisbrough was a crown holding. A ditch recorded in an evaluation adjacent to Conisbrough Cemetery at the northern side of the site may have been part of the park boundary, and the eastern side of the site in particular is likely to correspond with the park boundary. A small collection of medieval pottery was found within a field towards the south side of the site, near Micklebring Gorse. The pottery included local ware manufactured at Firsby to the immediate west of the site.

Areas of ridge and furrow have been recorded to the west of Clifton, in the central-east part of the site, with earthworks of uncertain function that appear to be earlier than the ridge and furrow recorded on the same site. As the area was probably part of the deer park during the medieval period, the ridge and furrow may have originated in the post-medieval, after the area was disparked. Post-medieval extractive pits, possible mine shafts or ruddle pits, are recorded in the vicinity and appear to have truncated the ridge and furrow earthworks. To the west of this, northwest of Conisbrough Lodge Farm, is the site of a post-medieval brickworks. A tunnel containing a water pipeline to Thrybergh Reservoir runs through the northern part of the site on a northeast to southwest aligment, with two air shafts extant within the site. This was constructed in 1872-80 and is up to 70 feet below the surface. One end of the tunnel has been blocked up.

The events within the site comprise geophysical survey, trial trenching and excavation on a strip of land to the west of Conisbrough Cemetery, which identified the possible deer park boundary mentioned above, and a walkover survey within the central part of the site, around Conisbrough Lodge Farm, which identified some remains associated with the Firsby medieval pottery industry to the west of the site. No other results of the walkover are recorded in the event record.

Findspots within the buffer include a Bronze Age flint scraper found at Firsby just to the west of the site, and a Roman brooch and three Roman coins found in fields near Clifton to the east. An extensive scatter of medieval pottery was found in a field at Firsby, associated with the known pottery industry in this area. Pottery wasters and kiln furniture have also been recorded in this area as findspots and through watching briefs.

A large double-ditched enclosure is recorded as a cropmark just outside the northwestern edge of the site, of probable Iron Age to Roman date, though nothing was plotted in this location by the National Mapping Programme. The suggested route of a Roman road from Brough to Doncaster runs along the northern boundary of the site (Sheffield Road). Firsby Lane along part of the northwest boundary of the site is also thought to be an ancient route, probably at least medieval in origin. It ran between Conisbrough and the pottery manufactory at Firsby. Post-medieval mine shaft mounds and hollows have been recorded in the northeast part of the buffer. In the Second World War, an anti-aircraft gun battery was recorded at Hill Top, Conisbrough, at the northern edge of the buffer, though its exact location is not known. Events within the buffer comprise watching briefs and a walkover survey at Firsby that recorded remains associated with the medieval pottery production site.




The Magnesian Limestone in South and West Yorkshire Aerial Photographic Mapping Project recorded areas of ridge and furrow within various parts of the site, as well as probable Iron Age to Roman enclosures in the northern and southern ends, and earthworks of uncertain function pre-dating ridge and furrow to the west of Clifton. Post-medieval extractive pits were also recorded in this area, truncating the ridge and furrow. Most of the ridge and furrow is within the area of the former deer park, and is therefore likely to be of post-medieval origin, post-dating the disparkment. Some in the eastern and western parts of the buffer may be of medieval origin, and strip lynchets are also recorded near Clifton to the east. The pits near Clifton may have been for the extraction of ruddle, known to have been mined and processed at nearby Micklebring. Probable coal mine shaft hollows are also recorded in the buffer at Clifton Common.

Historic Environment Characterisation records a number of different character zones within the site. At the northeast tip is a recreation ground created after landscaping of a modern rubbish tip. A small area of late 20th-century detached housing is to the west of the along Sheffield Road, adjacent to a cemetery of late 19th-century origin. South of this is an area of fields enclosed by Parliamentary Award in 1858, within an area of former piecemeal enclosure that may have originated when Conisbrough deer park was disparked. West of Park Lane are large agglomerated fields where boundary loss in the late 20th century has reduced the former character of former piecemeal enclosure. This area may have been outside the deer park. South of this, there is better preservation of piecemeal enclosure at the western side of the site. These areas again may have been part of the deer park prior to enclosure, though the boundaries of the park are uncertain. To the east of this is Conisbrough Lodge Farm, which may contain a 16th- to 17th-century core. The name suggests it may have originated as a hunting lodge for the deer park. East of the farm and Park Lane is an area of large agglomerated fields where boundary loss has removed the former character of Parliamentary Enclosure of earlier piecemeal enclosures from the deer park. An sinuous strip of woodland running through these fields may be a remnant of a larger area of woodland within the park. At the eastern edge is Conisbrough Parks Farm, possibly created after the disparkment. A Roman villa complex is sited within the area of the farm. The land at the southeast side of the site is agglomerated fields, with no legibility of former assarts enclosed from the park in the 16th century. An irregular strip of woodland that crosses the southern part of the site may again be a remnant of woodland within the former park. Most of the southern end of the site is large agglomerated fields with only fragmentary legibility of earlier piecemeal enclosure. The southeast and southwest edges of the site are also agglomerated fields, within an area formerly characterised by late 18th-century fields enclosed from Braithwell Common by Parliamentary Award.

Other character zones within the buffer include further agglomerated fields, strip fields, piecemeal enclosure, assarts, surveyed enclosure and farms to the east, south and west, with modern housing, an industrial estate and playing fields at the edge of Conisbrough in the northern edge of the buffer and at Clifton to the east.

Two areas of historic landfill are recorded at the southern edge of the site, relating to former railway cuttings that were used for the deposition of commercial, industrial and household waste after the railways went out of use. A similar infilled cutting is located in the northeast part of the buffer.

Recent aerial imagery indicates that the majority of the site is fields in a mixture of arable and pasture use, some with surviving hedged boundaries, particularly in the western part of the site, where the earlier field pattern is preserved. The eastern boundary of the northern end of the site follows the Kearsley Brook, which has hedges or trees along its route. Conisbrough Cemetery is within the northeast part of the site, and settlement within the area is confined to dispersed farms and cottages. A dismantled railway line runs through the eastern part of the site.


The 1854 OS map shows the majority of the site as fields, mainly much smaller than the present pattern. The area was labelled Conisbrough Parks. Small woodland fragments, such as Pearson Holt and Micklebridng Gorse, and belts of trees were present within the site, and a small clay pit labelled 'brick field' was depicted to the northwest of Conisbrough Lodge Farm. Birks Lodge farm was extant in the southwest part of the site, and Conisbrough Parks Farm, Conisbrough Grange Farm and Hilltop Farm were shown but not labelled at that date. A small osier (willow) plantation was shown to the northeast of Hilltop Farm. At the northeast edge of the site was a building labelled 'Providence Place', and Kearsley Lane ran through the northeast tip of the site. Park Lane ran through the site on a roughly north-south alignment, with a northeast extension, possibly a track or footpath, named Park Balk in the northeast part of the site. By 1892, a series of air shafts were shown within the western part of the site, south of Hill Top Farm. These were quite closely spaced, and related to a tunnel for a water pipeline from Pearson's Holt in



the northeast part of the site to Thrybergh Reservoir. The 1892 map also shows a number of old shafts, presumably former coal mine shafts, in the vicinity of Conisbrough Parks Farm, though the brick field near Conisbrough Lodge Farm was no longer labelled. In the northeast part of the site, Spring Bank cottage was depicted, with Sharman's Lane first laid out and Park Balk no longer shown. Providence Place was shown as a short row of terraced houses. In the southeast part of the site, a footpath named Coal Pit Lane ran from Micklebring to the Micklebring Gorse. Much of the Gorse and Pearson Holt was shown as heath or furze vegetation at that date. By 1902, a cemetery with a lodge and mortuary chapel had been established in the northeast part of the site, east of Providence Place and between Sheffield Road and Sharman Lane (renamed Spring Bank Road). The 1929 map was the first to show the LNER Gowdall and Braithwell branch railway running through the eastern part of the site on a northeast-southwest alignment, dividing fields. At the southern end of the site, the railway was within a substantial cutting, and another line ran through the southwest corner, the LMS & LNE Junction Railway Braithwell and Thrybergh Junction, also in a cutting. The two lines joined in the buffer to the south of the site. Most of the farms within the site had been expanded with new barns and outbuildings by 1929, and allotment gardens were shown within the northeast part of the site. Detached houses and a tennis court were shown between the allotments and the cemetery by 1962, at which date Providence Place was no longer shown, and only a single building remained on its site. Spring Bank Bungalow had been built along an extension to Spring Bank Road, and Parks Farm Cottages were extant to the south. The northeast tip of the site was shown as a refuse tip. The LNER branch line was disused but extant by 1969; both railways had been dismantled by 1982. Field boundary loss was progressive over the second half of the 20th century.

Within the buffer, the 1854 OS map shows fields surrounding the site, many of which are suggestive of piecemeal enclosure of consolidated strips from open field. Clifton Common in the northeast part of the buffer appeared largely unenclosed. Settlement at Clifton was shown at the eastern edge of the buffer, with buildings just outside Micklebring at the southeast and on the outskirts of Conisbrough to the north. Limestone and sandstone quarries were shown within the buffer, as well as sand pits. The northern boundary of the site was formed by Sheffield Road, part of the northwest boundary by Green (now Firsby) Lane, the northeast boundary by Kearsley Brook and the southern boundary by Common Lane. Greaves Sike Lane and Old Road were also present within the buffer. By 1894, the Holywell Brewery was shown in the northeast tip of the buffer, and Clifton Common had been enclosed into smaller fields. Firsby Reservoir was shown in the western part of the buffer. By 1902, groups of buildings at Ravenfield Grange and Silverthorpe were shown in the southwest corner of the buffer, with further detached houses added to the southwest by 1929. Firsby Reservoir appeared at least partially silted by that date. Extensive housing estates had been constructed in the northern part of the buffer by 1962, and by 1969 the M18 had been built along the southeast boundary of the site.

Survival:

The site largely comprises fields, with some dispersed farms including Birk Lodge Farm, Conisbrough Grange Farm, Conisbrough Parks Farm, Conisbrough Lodge Farm, Hill Top Farm. The two farms with 'lodge' names may indicate a connection with the medieval hunting park. All these farms appear to include historic buildings, those at Conisbrough Lodge appearing to be in a poor condition. A Roman villa is recorded at Conisbrough Parks Farm, which is considered to be an important site within the county for this period. The majority of the site is likely to have formed part of the medieval deer park associated with Conisbrough, which may have been extant before the Norman Conquest. Part of a possible park boundary bank and ditch was recorded in archaeological excavations adjacent to Conisbrough Cemetery in the northern part of the site, and further remains of this feature and other structures associated with the deer park are likely to be present within the site. Medieval earthworks and medieval or post-medieval ridge and furrow remains have been recorded within the site, as well as occasional post-medieval extractive pits. Conisbrough Cemetery, dating to the late 19th/early 20th century, is located within the northeast part of the site. The archaeological potential within the site as a whole is considered to be high. Though no clear visible signs of the deer park are recorded, the sparse settlement and medium to large fields preserve some legibility of the landscape character of the park and its post-medieval enclosure.


Further archaeological investigations will be required if the site is brought forward for development.

Significance:

The Roman villa site could be considered to be of at least Regional, and potentially National archaeological significance. A similar villa site at Stancil near Tickhill is a Scheduled Monument. Remains associated with Iron Age to Roman field systems and farmstead enclosures, and with the medieval deer park could be considered to be of Local to Regional significance, depending on their extent, nature and condition. The landscape of sparsely



distributed farms and medium to large fields preserves some legibility of the character of the deer park, and may be considered to be of at least Local historic landscape value. Farm buildings at Birks Lodge, Conisbrough Lodge, Conisbrough Parks Farm and Hill Top Farm may include structures of Local archaeological significance.


Aerial imagery from 2002 to 2018 shows the majority of the site to be fields, some with hedged boundaries, particularly in the western part of the site. In other area, the fields are larger and have fenced or ditched boundaries. The fields are in a mixture of arable and pasture usage, the former predominating. The 2018 imagery shows cropmarks of a possible park boundary feature and an Iron Age/Roman enclosure recorded by the NMP, as well as probable further linear features that may be field boundaries associated with the Iron Age/Roman enclosure, though these are confused by geological features. Other cropmark features within the site include former stream channels and possible removed field boundaries.

Conisbrough Cemetery is located in the northeast part of the site, with its chapel and lodge. Between 2009 and 2014, it was extended to the southwest by taking in a strip from the adjacent field. To its northeast are several modern detached houses with drives leading onto Sheffield Road. At the northeast tip of the site is a field on the site of a reclaimed refuse tip. West of the cemetery is a rendered house that may be a lone survivor from the Providence Row terraced housing. A small house at Spring Bank, and the larger Spring Bank bungalow have no StreetView imagery but appear to survive in a reasonable condition. To the west, Hill Top Farm appears to include a quadrangle of older stone buildings and adjacent modern barns, but no details of construction are clear.

Conisbrough Lodge Farm includes historic stone-built outbuildings with evidence for alterations and additions, as well as brick-built structures. StreetView and recent aerial imagery suggest that the buildings are in a poor condition and could be considered to be at risk. In 2018, the main house appeared to be roofless. There is no StreetView imagery of Conisbrough Parks Farm, but aerial imagery shows a house with pitched, tiled roof and largely ruined or roofless outbuildings arranged around a grassed-over former courtyard, as well as modern corrugated roof barns. Birks Lodge Farm includes an apparently stone-built farmhouse with possible mullioned windows, a tiled roof, and outbuildings of stone and brick. Much of the disused LNER railway line is still visible as a trackway running through the site, though the southern end has been infilled. There is no Lidar coverage for this site.


Google Earth 1999, 2002, 2003, 2007, 2008, 2009,2014, 2015, 2017 & 2018. Street View 2009.

Photographs transcribed by the Magnesian Limestone aerial mapping project:

Ridge and furrow: RAF/CPE/UK/1880 1338 06-Dec-1946; RAF/CPE/UK/1880 1339 06-Dec-1946; RAF/541/35 4016 19-May-1948; RAF/541/35 4018 19-May-1948; RAF/541/170 3235 21-Sep-1948; RAF/542/77F21 0003 28-Oct-1954; RAF/542/77 0005 28-Oct-1954; MAL/60408 77034 29-Jan-1960; MAL/60408 77044 29-Jan-1960; MAL/67097 0089 07-Dec-1967.

Other features: MAL/60408 77031 29-Jan-1960; MAL/67097 0091 07-Dec-1967; MAL/67097 0092 07-Dec-1967; SK5097/1 DNR 1549/28 23-Jul-1979; SK5097/3 DNR 1560/25 27-Jul-1979; SK5196/8 DNR 1590/16 04-Oct-1980; OS/89258 0023 11-Jun-1989; SK5093/1 NMR 17720/13 18-Jul-2002.





00831/01 Bronze Age Thumb Nail Scraper, found near Firsby Hall Farm, Conisbrough Parks

A thumb-nail scraper found in May 1959 in the bankside of the sunken road west of Firsby Hall Farm. The artefact has been classed as of Bronze Age date.

Y

01198/01 Three Roman Coins found near Clifton Reservoir, Conisbrough Parks

Three mid-4th century Roman coins found by an individual using a metal detector in October and November 1979.

Y

02005/01 Large Iron Age or Romano-British Rectangular Enclosure and Ditches, Conisbrough Parks

A large rectangular enclosure identified from the air. The cropmarks consist of a well defined rectangular enclosure with two ditches projecting from its western side. A further linear ditch was identified to the northeast of the enclosure. By analogy with excavated sites, the features are probably of late Iron Age to Roman date.

Y

02069/01 Medieval Pottery Scatter near Firsby (I), Conisbrough Parks

Medieval pottery scatter found in profusion on the field surface immediately east of Firsby Hall Farm. The artefacts date from the later 13th to 14th centuries. The volume of material recovered from this location is quite remarkable.

Y

02071/01 Medieval Pottery found north of Micklebring Gorse, Conisbrough Parks

A small collection of medieval pottery found on the top soil of field north of Micklebring Gorse. The pottery consists of one sherd of 'Firsby ware' and other orange and coloured sherds. Found on field surface east of track to Birch Lodge.

Y

02565/01 Roman Brooch Find northwest of Clifton, Conisbrough Park

A Roman Brooch found in a field to the north west of Clifton. Y

02566/01 Roman Drain near Clifton Villa, Conisbrough Parks

A section of hollowed out stone drain made from limestone. The drain is similar to other examples known from Doncaster Roman Fort.

Y

02958/01 Conisbrough Deer Park

Documentary evidence indicates that a deer park existed at Conisbrough by 1347, but it is postulated that it was extant much earlier, as it predated the issuing of royal licences and must have been of at least 12th century, possibly even Saxon, origin, as King Harold possessed land in the Conisbrough area at this time. The estate was in the possession of the de Warennes from the Norman Conquest until 1348, when parts were granted to two separate owners. By 1461, Conisbrough had come under royal control. In 1575, as part of widespread social and economic changes, large areas of woodland in the park were felled and the timber sold locally.

Y

03023/01 Clifton Roman Villa, Conisbrough Parks

A Roman villa identified close to the modern Conisbrough Parks Farm is thought to be one of the best surviving and most important Roman sites in the region. The villa buildings are situated to the southwest of the farm, but investigations in the last decade have suggested that structures and activities connected with the estate may cover a much wider area. The site came to light through limited excavations by local amateurs in June 1985. The main building complex is in an area of pasture, with walls preserved directly below the turf. The walls survived to c 1m high and had a plaster facing on the inside. A bath house and aisled building were identified.

Y

03362/01 Ridge and furrow Earthworks,

Aerial photograph shows several areas of ridge and furrow. Y



Conisbrough Parks

03362/02 Medieval or earlier earthworks, Conisborough Parks

Earthworks earlier in date than ridge and furrow on the same site. A bank and ditch in the adjoining field to the east may be a continuation.

Y

03362/03 Post medieval extractive pits, Conisborough Parks

Two areas containing extractive pits, identified via aerial photography. Not shown on OS mapping, so pre-1850. Appear to truncate ridge and furrow earthworks.

Y

03363/01 Cropmark of Unknown Date, south of the A630, Conisbrough Parks

A crop mark site of presumed Iron Age to Roman date. The marks are indicative of buried ditches, and may form part of a larger enclosure.

Y

04364/01 Medieval to Post-Medieval Period Road, Conisbrough

This ancient road turned left at Hill Top along what is now the Old Road. The track now known as Firsby Lane forms a continuation of the old road. It is suggested that the combination is an ancient road from Conisbrough to Firsby and the pottery there. Parts could be a remnant of Ryknield Street.

Y

04365/01 Large Rectangular Cropmark Enclosure of Unknown Date, Conisbrough Parks

A faint image on an aerial photograph appears to be a large rectangular, double-ditched enclosure.

Y

04367/01 Post-Medieval to Industrial Period Brickyard, Conisbrough Parks

A field marked as Brick Field on the 1851 O.S. map. Buildings are indicated near the southwest boundary. A spring feeds a small brook which enters Hooton Brook in Ravenfield Park and can also supply water to Thrybergh Reservoir.

Y

04368/01 Post-Medieval to Industrial Period Ventilation and Access Shafts, Conisbrough Parks

Ventilation and access shafts along the line of a tunnel containing the pipeline from Pearsons Holt to Thrybergh Reservoir, constructed 1872-80. Depth up to 70 feet. Part of the main water supply to Thrybergh. One end of the tunnel is now blocked off.

Y

04580/01 Medieval Period Pottery Scatter, Firsby, Conisbrough Parks

Scatter of wasters of Firsby pottery industry (?13th - 14th century date) consists of cooking pots, pancheons, cisterns, drinking mugs and lids.

Y

04711 'H24' Heavy Anti-Aircraft Battery, Hill Top, Conisbrough

A WWII heavy anti-aircraft gun battery was located at Hill Top, Conisbrough. The exact location of the battery is unknown.

Y

04795 Post-Medieval Bell Pits, Conisbrough Parks

Post-Medieval bell pits shown on the English Heritage aerial photograph transcript. Reference:

Y



Y

05606 Medieval deer park boundary features, Conisbrough

Double ditch, probably relating to medieval to post-medieval deer park boundary. The ditch is close to the line of the 'Park Balk' shown on historic mapping, and may represent an earlier boundary. Evaluation trenching in 2011 identified a section of this ditch.

Y

05752 Iron Age to Romano-British enclosures and field boundaries, Braithwell

Iron Age/Roman rectilinear ditched enclosures, an enclosure and associated field boundaries are visible as cropmarks on air photographs. It is possible that some of the features are of prehistoric date but at least some of the linear ditches are likely to be more recent drains.

Y Y



Common

ESY371 Watching Briefs at Firsby Hall Farm

In 1998 a watching brief was conducted at Firsby Hall Farm. The results recovered evidence relating to the known medieval pottery production at the site. In 2003 a watching brief was conducted towards the north of the site with Arbour Lane to the west. The topsoil contained significant amounts of medieval pottery confirming the medieval use of this production site as identified in previous archaeological work.

Y

ESY373 Walkover Survey of Land at Conisbrough Lodge Farm

In November 1999 a walkover survey was conducted on land at Conisbrough Lodge Farm. The results revealed concentrations of medieval pottery and waste close to the production site at Firsby Hall farm, including a number pieces of kiln furniture and metal production slag.

Y Y

ESY1362 Geophysical survey on land adjacent to Conisbrough cemetery

Geophysical survey on land adjacent to Conisbrough cemetery ahead of its possible extension did not identify any anomalies of clear archaeological origin.

Y

ESY1363 Trial trenching at Conisbrough cemetery

Six trial trenches were dug adjacent to Conisbrough cemetery ahead of a proposed extension. A double ditch, probably representing the medieval deer park boundary was recorded. Also encountered were stone-packed postholes and a stone-packed foundations, though these could not be dated.

Y



HSY4171 Braithwell Common, Braithwell, Doncaster Agglomerated fields Y Y

HSY4207 Park Lane, Conisbrough, Doncaster Surveyed Enclosure (Parliamentary/ Private)

Y Y

HSY4250 Sheffield Road, Conisbrough, Doncaster Agglomerated fields Y Y

HSY4251 Firsby Lane, Conisbrough, Doncaster Piecemeal Enclosure Y Y

HSY4254 Birk Lodge Fields, Conisbrough, Doncaster Agglomerated fields Y Y

HSY4255 Micklebring Gorse, Conisbrough, Doncaster Semi Natural Woodland Y

HSY4257 Pearson Holt, Conisbrough Park, Doncaster Semi Natural Woodland Y

HSY4258 Conisbrough Park, Doncaster Agglomerated fields Y

HSY4261 Conisbrough Park fields, Doncaster Agglomerated fields Y

HSY4398 Conisbrough Parks Farm, Conisbrough, Doncaster

Farm Complex Y

HSY5454 Sheffield Road Conisbrough, Doncaster Cemetery Y

HSY5455 Sheffield Road, Conisbrough, Doncaster Villas/ Detached Housing Y

HSY5456 Former tip, Sheffield Road, Conisbrough, Doncaster

Playing Fields/ Recreation ground Y Y

HSY5827 Conisbrough Lodge, Conisbrough Parks, Doncaster

Farm Complex Y

HSY3194 Land north of Hooton Roberts, Rotherham Agglomerated fields Y

HSY3546 Former Braithwell Common (Rotherham section)


Y

HSY4169 Braithwell, Doncaster Strip Fields Y

HSY4191 Clifton Fields, Clifton, Doncaster Strip Fields Y



HSY4204 Clifton Common, Conisbrough, Doncaster Surveyed Enclosure (Parliamentary/ Private)

Y

HSY4210 Kearsley Lane, Conisbrough, Doncaster Surveyed Enclosure (Parliamentary/ Private)

Y

HSY4245 Moor Lane, Braithwell, Doncaster Agglomerated fields Y

HSY4388 Clifton Hill, Conisbrough, Doncaster Piecemeal Enclosure Y

HSY4397 Springfield House, Conisborough, Doncaster Piecemeal Enclosure Y




HSY5374 Cricket Ground south of Conisbrough, Doncaster

Sports Ground Y

HSY5453 Piggotts Park, Conisbrough, Doncaster Playing Fields/ Recreation ground Y

HSY5458 Holywell Road Industrial area, Conisbrough, Doncaster

Other Industry Y

HSY5818 Micklebring Fields, Micklebring, Doncaster Strip Fields Y

HSY5820 Conisbrough fields, Micklebring, Doncaster Assarts Y

HSY5830 Hilltop, Conisbrough, Doncaster Farm Complex Y

HSY5831 Common Lane, Clifton, Doncaster Piecemeal Enclosure Y

HSY5833 Clifton, Doncaster Villas/ Detached Housing Y

HSY5875 Coal Pit Lane, Micklebring, Doncaster Villas/ Detached Housing Y



Allocation Reference: 1089 Allocation Type: Housing Site Name: Land East of New Street, Owston Lane






Summary

Within site Within buffer zone Scheduled Monument - - Listed Building - - SMR record/event - 1 record/2 events Cropmark/Lidar evidence Yes Yes Cartographic features of interest No Yes Estimated sub-surface disturbance Low n/a



Allocation Reference: 1089 Allocation Type: Housing Site Name: Land East of New Street, Owston Lane



The SMR does not record any monuments, findspots or events within the site. One monument and two events are recorded within the buffer. The monument relates to cropmarks within fields to the north of the site, showing rectilinear field boundaries, with no date recorded. The events were associated with evaluations of land within Owston Park. One revealed ridge and furrow cultivation remains within a field at the northeast edge of the buffer, whilst the other identified post-medieval features concentrated around Owston Hall and its walled garden, which lie outside the buffer.

No Scheduled Monuments, listed buildings or registered parks and gardens are recorded within the site or buffer.

The Magnesian Limestone in South and West Yorkshire aerial mapping project recorded a linear ditch crossing the northern part of the site on an east-west alignment. This was interpreted as a possible Iron Age to Roman field boundary. Further fragmentary boundaries identified as cropmarks to the north and southwest may be part of the same field system. Ridge and furrow cultivation was recorded to the north of the site and at the eastern edge of the buffer.

One locally listed park is recorded within the northern part of the buffer, a late 18th-century landscape park associated with Owston Hall, which may incorporate a medieval deer park recorded in the 14th century and 16th-century gardens.

Historic Environment Characterisation records the site and eastern part of the buffer as agglomerated fields, where boundary loss in the mid-20th-century has led to a reduction in the visibility of former strip fields. Some ridge a furrow survives in the eastern part of the buffer. Other character zones within the buffer comprise Owston Park to the north, a planned housing estate at Carcroft 'New Village' to the west, built in the 1920s to house workers at Bullcroft Colliery, and drained wetland within the former area of Owston Common at the southern edge.

Recent aerial imagery (2015) shows the site as part of a field in arable cultivation.


The 1854 OS map shows the site as part of two strip fields with hedged boundaries, bounded to the north by Skellow and Owston Lane. The site was shown as a single field in 1893. The eastern field boundary had been removed by 1977.

Within the buffer, the 1854 OS map mainly shows fields, with a stream named Morley Well labelled to the south of the site, and Emily Wood and a disused small limestone quarry to the east. Further quarries were shown to the north of Owston Lane, at the southern edge of Owston Park, an Owston Road was present at the western edge of the buffer, named Corpse Lane at that date. Carcroft Lodge was shown at the northwest edge. By 1893, Emily Wood had been much reduced in size to a small plantation southeast of the site, and Spring Head or Bog Plantation was shown to the southwest. Between 1906 and 1932, a housing estate was constructed to the west of the site. Between 1968 and 1977, most of the field boundaries surrounding the site were removed, and a small sewage pumping station was shown to the southwest. No further changes were shown by 1990.

Survival:

The site has been a field since at least the mid-19th century, and probably since the medieval period. Recent cultivation may have caused some truncation to sub-surface deposits, but overall the conditions for the survival of archaeological remains are considered to be good. A field boundary of possible Iron Age to Roman date has been recorded within the site as a cropmark, and further associated remains could survive.





Significance:

Unknown. Remains associated with Iron Age to Roman agricultural and settlement activity could be considered to be of Local to Regional archaeological significance, depending on their extent, nature and significance.


Aerial imagery from 2002-2015 shows the site as part of a larger arable field, bounded to the west by a housing estate and to the north by Owston Lane. The field has no surviving hedged boundaries. A drainage ditch runs along the southeast edge. Lidar shows widely spaced, faint north-south aligned ridges within the field, but it is unclear if these are remnant ridge and furrow or associated with modern cultivation. A sinuous linear earthwork runs northeast from the southeast corner of the site, towards East Farm. This may be a former field boundary/ headland. Ridge and furrow recorded by the Magnesian Limestone aerial mapping project at the east of the buffer is not clearly visible in the Lidar data, probably due to recent cultivation of the fields.


Google Earth 2002, 2003, 2008, 2009, 2013, 2014 & 2015. Lidar 2m DTM.

Photographs transcribed by the Magnesian Limestone aerial mapping project: RAF/541/31 4405 18-May-1948; RAF/543/9F22 0051 19-Jun-1957; MAL/60427 81754 21-Jun-1960; MAL/60427 81755 21-Jun-1960; MAL/67058 0140 13-Jun-1967; OS/90184 0079 18-Jul-1990.



04001/01 Cropmarks showing field boundaries, Owston

Rectilinear field boundaries. Y

ESY333 Archaeological Evaluation at Owston Park

In 1995 a 3 stage archaeological field evaluation was undertaken at Owston park. The results indicated the presence of ridge and furrow cultivation.

Y

ESY523 Archaeological Field Evaluation of land at Owston Hall and Park

In July 1994 an evaluation comprising trial trenching and test pits was carried out at Owston Hall and Park. The only finds recovered were of post-medieval date and were concentrated in the areas around the hall and walled garden.

Y



HSY132 Fields to the West of West Farm Owston Agglomerated fields Y Y

HSY108 Carcroft 'New Village' Planned Estate (Social Housing) Y

HSY125 Owston Park Golf Course Golf Course Y

HSY131 Owston Common Drained Wetland Y



Allocation Reference:1092 Allocation Type: Housing Site Name: Consort House, Waterdale, Doncaster






Summary

Within site Within buffer zone Scheduled Monument - - Listed Building - 31 SMR record/event - 21 records/22 events Cropmark/Lidar evidence No No Cartographic features of interest Yes Yes Estimated sub-surface disturbance Partial n/a



Allocation Reference: 1092 Allocation Type: Housing Site Name: Consort House, Waterdale, Doncaster



The SMR does not record any monuments, findspots or events within the site. There are 21 monuments or findspots and 22 events within the buffer. The nearest monuments to the site are the route of a Roman road running along South Parade and Hall Gate to the north of the site, the findspot of a Roman cinerary urn to the northeast and the site of the medieval cross of Ote de Tilli at the junction of Hall Gate and Waterdale. Within the wider area, a Roman coin hoard was recovered to the south of Hall Gate with associated finds including brooches and rings, and two other Roman hoards are recorded, though both are imprecisely located and at least one was clearly found much further to the north. Two Roman cemeteries are recorded within the buffer, one between Hall Gate and Wood Street at the western side, the other at Waterdale car park to the south. The main phase of activity in both appears to be in the 1st to 2nd centuries AD, possibly associated with the first phase of the fort at Doncaster. Roman settlement remains were also recorded near Wood Street, as well as medieval to post-medieval settlement activity, and medieval pottery kilns have been recorded to the north of Hall Gate. A post-medieval well and a workshop were recorded at the western edge of the buffer. At Waterdale car park, remains of a probable fence line of medieval date and practice trenches associated with WWI military training were also recorded.

Events within the buffer include building recording, as well as evaluations, excavations and watching briefs. The nearest to the site include monitoring along Hall Gate that recorded surfaces probably associated with the Roman to medieval road, and building recording at the Odeon Cinema to the northeast of the site. Within the wider area, building recording has also been undertaken on college buildings to the southeast and listed buildings on Hall Gate and South Parade. At Chequer Road in the southeast part of the buffer, post-medieval stake holes and post holes appeared to represent property boundaries, with the area likely used for agricultural and horticultural purposes from the medieval period onwards. To the north of Hallgate, the remains of medieval and post-medieval buildings and pottery kilns have been found in archaeological evaluations to the north, and Roman to medieval settlement and cemetery remains were recorded to the south. Evaluation and mitigation at Waterdale car park in the southern edge of the buffer recorded a Roman cemetery and WWI practice trenches.

There are no Scheduled Monuments, listed buildings or registered parks and gardens within the site. Within the buffer there are 31 listed buildings, all grade II apart from Christ Church at the northeast edge, which is grade II* listed. The nearest listed buildings to the site are Georgian House and nos.40-41A Hall Gate, just to the northwest. The other listed buildings within the buffer include railings around the Christ Church yard, terraced and detached houses along South Parade, and shops, houses, offices, a church and a lamp stand along Hall Gate.



Historic Environment Characterisation records the present character of the site and part of the immediate buffer as terraced housing at the south end of Hall Gate, dating from the later 18th century. Other character zones within the buffer include terraced housing to the north, southeast and southwest, villas and detached houses around Regent Square to the east, Doncaster College and municipal buildings to the southeast, a car park at the southern edge, industrial and commercial buildings to the northwest, and shopping centres and commercial urban core to the west and southwest. Christ Church is at the northeast side of the buffer.

Recent aerial imagery (2017) shows the site occupied by a substantial flat-roofed modern building, of six storeys in height with probable lift towers and roof access. The northwest edge is a hard-surfaced yard used for car parking.




The 1852 OS town plan shows the majority of the site as gardens to the rear of buildings fronting onto Hall Gate, with buildings within the southern part of the site, probably stables or outbuildings associated with the houses. A large building was shown covering the site by 1930, with some smaller subdivisions at the southern end. By 1961, this was shown as a single building labelled 'garage'. No subsequent changes were shown on the 1970 map, which is the last detailed map available for the site.

Within the buffer, the 1852 town plan shows substantial terraced houses along the Hall Gate and South Parade frontages, with small terraced and back-to-back houses to the north and west. Many of the larger houses had gardens to the rear. A street called Horse Fair (now Waterdale) formed the eastern boundary of the site, with possible allotment or market gardens and paddocks in the southern part of the buffer. Further fields and gardens were shown to the northeast, and Christ Church was extant to the north. By 1894, Regent Square had been constructed in one of the fields to the northeast, and further housing was shown at the northern edge of the buffer. By 1902, the Trinity Presbyterian Church had been built to the southwest of the site. By 1930, schools and a museum and art gallery were shown in the southern part of the buffer. A technical college had been built on the site of the art gallery by 1970, when the area at the southern edge was shown as a car park and the area to the west had been redeveloped as retail units within the Waterdale development.

Survival:

The majority of the site is occupied by a six-storey mid-20th-century office building, with covered parking across much of the ground floor level. A yard to the west is hard surfaced and used for parking. The covered parking indicates that the building foundations are likely to be piled. This may mean that there is moderate to high chance of the survival of archaeological deposits beneath the structure. The site is close to a Roman road, and within the vicinity of two, possibly three Roman cemeteries. Settlement of Roman to medieval date has been recorded within the buffer, as well as medieval pottery production. There is the potential for similar remains to extend into the site.



Significance:

Unknown. Remains associated with Roman settlement or burial activity, and with medieval settlement and industry could be considered to be of Local to Regional significance depending on their extent, nature and condition.


Aerial imagery from 2002-2017 shows the site as occupied by a large building aligned northeast-southwest, with a flat roof. The yard along the northwest side is hard surfaced and used for car parking. Street View shows the building to be six storeys in height, with rows of windows along each storey, probably office space. The building is of brown brick construction in a modern style. The northern end has a shopfront and office access lobby, whilst the remainder of the ground floor is covered parking.







Site? Buffer?



1132886 9, 10, 11 South Parade II Y















1192885 7 And 8 South Parade II Y





1286405 The Salutation Hotel II Y




1314548 6A South Parade II Y








Rebuilt 1793 on new site at the end of South Parade. No vestige of original remains.

Y

00426/01 Hallgate 1965 - Medieval Pottery

There was a pottery in Hallgate, Doncaster in the late 13th and early 14th centuries. Main products comprised face jugs, jugs with tabular spouts, baluster and globular shaped pipkins,

Y



Kiln pancheons and some roof tiles. The kiln, probably being a Type 2A two-flued, updraught kiln, was found with three pits all containing pottery wasters and was in production from the late 12th century to the late 13th or early 14th century.

01016/01 Roman coin hoard found 1929

Reference to 2 coin hoards "from Doncaster" - are of 52 demarii and another of "120 coins from Wheatley Hills".

Y



Y


House was originally set in extensive grounds which extended as far as the banks of the Don, to the north. The property was bought by Henry Flowitt in 1892 who also built Copley Road and the adjacent buildings over the area of parkland/garden.

Y


Roman burial urn - Found in 1748 near Hall Cross. Y


Excavations SW of main N-S Roman Road produced "slight Roman features and, disturbed in a Medieval pit, a hoard of 15 C2 AE coins, 3 intagli (two mounted in rings), 3 brooches and a surgeon's knife.

Y


No. 28 Wood Street, Doncaster. Stone lined well discovered during building work. Approx. 7m deep, empty to that depth and stone lined. Made of limestone, with use of brick in upper 2 courses. Capped with Yorkstone slabs. 2m diameter.

Y


Rubble remnants of a limestone wall consisting of angular stone pieces set without any clear facing edge. Overlying this wall was a later post-mediaeval wall base consisting of large, angular blocks faced on either side and bonded by mortar. A pit cut into natural sand was investigated, probably a sand extraction pit. A multi-period pottery assemblage was recovered during excavation. Dates range from the Roman period to the modern period.

Y


From an excavation of a single trench, there were found to be abundant remains dated to the Romano-British period. Pottery discovered was readily identifiable as Roman in date, and consisted mainly of locally produced greyware. Also discovered were simple field boundary ditches and a pit. These, in relation to the other finds from the site (such as a grinding stone), imply that a domestic settlement once occupied this site.

Y


Archaeological investigation at 53/54 Hallgate and the rear of 9 Wood Street revealed Roman inhumations and cremations. The density of the burial was quite low. The excavated site is thought to be on the edge of a larger cemetery. Later Roman features cut through some of the burials, these ditches, post holes and limestone slabbed floor were dated to the 3rd to early 4th century.

Y


The course of the Roman road through Doncaster was suggested to be along this route by plan form analysis. This has been confirmed in one location on Hall Gate. The cobbled road continued to be used into the Medieval period, evidenced by Late Saxon and 13th century pottery in the final phases of the surface. Excavations at 8-10 High Street also identified the road.

Y

05017 Excavated Features at Hall Gate,

Pre-Roman activity was identified on this site. A possible boundary ditch with associated bank and fence were sealed by

Y



Doncaster the Roman Road that came through this area (PIN 05017). No artefacts were located to date these features more specifically. A possible Roman cremation was identified, although no burnt bone was recorded.


Built around 1800, this workshop building was surrounded by contemporary structures, probably domestic tenements. The workshop was probably built as an extension to an earlier building on Wood Street. The building was modified in the first half of the 19th century; the main archway into the building was blocked and new windows were inserted. A new first floor was also inserted.

Y


A Roman ditch terminus or pit was identified during excavations on this site. There was "considerable truncation of the [Roman] deposits here during the medieval and post-medieval periods." A substantial medieval plough soil horizon covered the site. Contemporary with this was a cobbled surface interpreted as a pathway between open strip fields. It has previously been thought that the pre-18th century activity on Hallgate was confined to the street frontage, but 16th century structures were located further from the road.

Y


Roman type 2A kiln identified on excavations at Wood Street. The kiln is the same type as others found in the Hall Gate area. The ceramic material found in the kiln and associated features suggests a 1th-12th century date.

Y



Y

05645 WWI practice trenches, Waterdale, Doncaster

Excavations at Waterdale in 2010-11 revealed a complex of trenches. These were originally revetted with wood and were built to British army specifications. These may have been practice trenches excavated by local units, to assist with recruitment exercises - given their central location.

Y

05654 Roman cremation and inhumation cemetery, Waterdale

Evaluations in 2008-10 and excavation in 2010-11 identified a Roman cremation cemetery, containing 20-30 individuals, of 1st-2nd century date, associated with a number of complete cremation urns and pottery and glass vessels, many related to votive offerings. Evidence for specific elements of funerary rites consisted of ceramic lamps, evidence of ritual feasting, pyre remains and melted glass vessels, the use of quantities of olive oil. Charred remains of a number of imported fruits were identified in bulk samples. Two inhumation burials of 3rd/4th century date were also recorded. Early post-medieval extractive pits (see PIN 05657) to the northwest of the cemetery complex contained residual Roman material so it is possible the cemetery once extended into that area.

Y

05656 Probable Iron Age pit, Waterdale, Doncaster

Excavations at Waterdale in 2010-11 identified a pit containing a residual bladelet (probably Neolithic) and a single sherd of Iron Age pottery. It was cut by a Roman pit.

Y

05657 Late/Post medieval features, Waterdale, Doncaster

Excavations at Waterdale in 2010-11 revealed a number of extractive pits for sand and gravel and an L-shaped line of post holes. The post holes contained pottery of Roman to medieval date, and are likely to represent a fence line or other agricultural feature of later date.

Y


A long section across the site on a north-south axis was created by the removal of much of the site. The section was then cleaned and drawn.

Y

ESY839 Archaeological Building Appraisal

The function of two 19th century phase 2 buildings is not known, but probably relates to manufacture (Building B) and

Y



at 8-9 Hall Gate, Doncaster, South Yorkshire

administration (Building C). Phase 3 buildings represent an extensive late 20th century flat roofed extension, probably associated with its recent function of a print works.


In 1996 an archaeological evaluation was undertaken in advance of redevelopment. Seven trenches were opened, with three containing 19th century deposits which destroyed or prevented access to earlier layers. A further three trenches contained features of post-medieval date. One trench revealed a sequence of occupation including a Roman pit, a medieval plough soil horizon, and post-medieval garden levels and floor surfaces.

Y


An archaeological excavation was undertaken on land between Hallgate and Wood Street, Doncaster. Evidence was recovered for three phases of activity during the Roman and medieval periods. These include use of the site as a 1st/2nd century cemetery and cremation site, and the medieval production of pottery. In each case it is clear that the activities represented also extended into the surrounding areas.

Y


An archaeological field evaluation was carried out on the site to the rear of 53 Hallgate and 9 Wood Street in advance of the development of the site for use as a public house. The excavation identified a multi-phase occupation of the site.

Y


A second phase archaeological investigation was carried out on land off Wood Street, Doncaster. This led to the identification of what is believed to be part of a Romano-British settlement site of probably 2nd century date.

Y


An archaeological evaluation encountered comprehensive evidence of Roman, medieval and post-medieval activity. In addition, a wattle fence and ditch were sealed by the Roman road may present pre-Roman activity, although in the absence of pre-Roman artefacts this is still to be confirmed. The Roman road, represented by at least seven phases of cobbles was situated to the north of the present street frontage. Two clay-lined pits, in addition to other discrete pits and post-holes, were medieval in date, while further post-holes and brick cellars represented post-medieval disturbance.

Y


The area covered by the development was considerably greater than originally investigated as part of the evaluation, and several phases of late medieval and post medieval occupation and activity were identified. These included stone buildings of 16th and 17th century origins, one of which had been modified to include a possible oven. More intensive development of the site occurred in the late 18th century, with the construction of brick- and stone-built cellared buildings.

Y


In 1998 an archaeological field evaluation was undertaken. Prior to the 20th century, the site appeared to have been used as gardens or agricultural land. A number of post-holes, stake-holes and other similar features were found cut into a post-medieval garden soil horizon. These represented property boundaries of the late-18th and 19th century. The subsoil beneath this layer appeared to have seen agricultural activity in the middle ages, and finds recovered from this level included residual sherds of Roman pottery. Nothing of further archaeological interest was encountered.

Y

ESY869 Building Recording at Odeon Cinema, 35-36 Hallgate,

This site was initially developed in the 19th century an earlier buildings were replaced by the Gaumont Place, a specifically designed cinema in 1934. This was one of many being built at

Y



Doncaster the time as the film industry developed. Originally providing both on screen and live stage entertainment, the building underwent a number of refurbishments and alterations over the intervening years and become a three screen cinema with no live entertainment, although the stage, orchestra pit and dressing rooms remain. The building ceased operation as a cinema in April 2008.


An archaeological watching brief on the corner Of Prince Street and East Laith Gate, during the excavation of a foundation trench for a five storey building, revealed a series of modern and redeposited natural deposits. No archaeologically significant remains were identified.

Y


In 1997, watching brief was undertaken during refurbishment of the tavern. Two foundation holes for column bases were excavated in the cellar, and four trenches for drainage were excavated at ground floor level. Made ground was encountered below the existing surfaces, and nothing of archaeological interest was recorded.

Y


Building recording was undertaken at the former Doncaster College. The Chequer Road Boys elementary School was built to a central hall design so that pupils could gather for special occasions. Around this time there was a change in thinking to more hygienic ventilated style of building. This Pavilion style was partially adopted by the 1926 Girls and Infants school. The 1910 High School for Girls selected elements of the new thinking whilst having a more ornate façade. The 1958 Technical College was built to cater for those born during the Second World war and to serve the growing mining and engineering industries in and around Doncaster.

Y


An archaeological evaluation was carried out in association with proposed redevelopment. The site was formerly occupied by Doncaster MBC education offices, constructed in the 19th century, which appeared to have involved ground disturbance to a relatively deep level. This left a limited area in which evaluation was possible. A single trench was excavated which was found to contain remains dated to the Roman period.

Y


Photographic survey of building to look for archaeological potential. Extensive damage of the buildings by fire was noted. Former 1920s Odeon Cinema and Art Deco shop fronts noted. There was also a former 3 storey townhouse.

Y

ESY1051 High Street 1960 Observations were made by Doncaster Museum's Keeper of Antiquities during the cutting of a service trench along the south-west side of High Street, running from the corner of St Sepulchre Gate to the corner of Hallgate and Waterdale. A section of two hard-packed gravel surfaces were recorded, presumably the remains of the Roman road. A large quantity of Roman pottery was also recovered

Y


A medieval pottery kiln was discovered to the northeast of Hall Gate during excavations in 1964 and 1965, prior to the construction of the Bradford Row shopping centre. The kiln, defined as probably being a Type 2A two-flued, updraught kiln, was found with three pits all containing pottery wasters. The kiln was in production from the late 12th century to the late 13th or early 14th century.

Y


A watching brief was undertaken during demolition of buildings to the rear of the frontage. Limited ground reduction precluded an assessment of the below ground archaeological potential.

Y



ESY1478 Evaluations at Waterdale, Doncaster

Trial trenching and a borehole survey were undertaken in 2008. They identified a probable Roman ditch, and 19th-20th century military practice trenches. Archaeological deposits were located at variable heights across the site, suggesting modern landscaping. In 2010 further evaluation trenching was conducted and identified at least two Roman cremation burials, along with a number of other, apparently unstratified Roman finds. Further remains of the 19th-20th century practice trenches were also recorded.

Y

ESY1479 Excavations at Waterdale, Doncaster

Excavations were undertaken at Waterdale ahead of redevelopment in 2010/11. A cremation cemetery of 1st-2nd century date, containing 20-30 individuals was recorded, along with a small number of inhumations of 3rd/4th century date. Post-medieval features included mineral extraction pits and WWI trenches used during recruitment exercises.

Y

ESY1480 Evaluation and watching brief at Waterdale, Doncaster

A watching brief and evaluation were carried out in 2013. This recorded features associated with 19th century gardens, and a buried ploughsoil containing a Romano-British sherd.

Y



Y



HSY5919 South end of Hall Gate, Doncaster Terraced Housing Y Y


HSY5888 Doncaster College, University or College Y




HSY5909 Chequer Road School Buildings, Doncaster School Y

HSY5910 Doncaster College (Beechfield Park), Doncaster University or College Y






HSY5923 Health Clinic, Museum and Art Gallery and Council Offices, Chequer Gate, Doncaster

Civil & Municipal Buildings Y


Terraced Housing Y




Allocation Reference:1093 Allocation Type: Housing Site Name: Old Guildhall Yard Building, Doncaster






Summary

Within site Within buffer zone Scheduled Monument - 1 Listed Building - 35 SMR record/event - 56 records/43 events Cropmark/Lidar evidence No No Cartographic features of interest Yes Yes Estimated sub-surface disturbance Extensive/Partial n/a



Allocation Reference:1093 Allocation Type: Housing Site Name: Old Guildhall Yard Building, Doncaster



The SMR does not record any monuments, findspots or events within the site. There are 56 monuments or findspots and 43 events within the buffer. The earliest finds are of a late upper Palaeolithic stone tool and Neolithic to Bronze Age flints found near St Sepulchre Gate. The monuments include the site of the Roman fort, the southwest edge of which is thought to lie immediately to the northeast of the site. The site may lie within the area of the civilian settlement associated with the fort, and Roman remains, including a midden assemblage, have been found immediately to the southeast. A Roman road ran along the route of High Street to the south of the site, and evidence for this has been found in nearby excavations. Evidence for Anglo-Saxon occupation has been found within the buffer, and remains possibly associated with an early medieval burh have been recorded within the area of the fort. Extensive medieval remains have been recorded within the buffer, including a Norman period motte and bailey castle constructed within the fort to the north of the site, pre-dating St George's Church, which also has medieval origins, though most of the current building is of Victorian date. A moot hall was also recorded in this area. Remains of the medieval town ditch have been recorded at the southern side of the buffer, and one of the town gates was at the south edge. A medieval chapel was located at the eastern edge of the buffer, with an associated graveyard recorded during excavations at the Corn Exchange. A Carmelite Friary was located at the southeast edge of the buffer. The remains of medieval to post-medieval buildings and small-scale industry, including pottery production, have been found within the buffer including tanning activity at the northeast side of the buffer adjacent to Church Walk. A bone mill was recorded adjacent to the river at the northeast edge in the mid-19th century. A water-powered pumping station was located at the west edge of the buffer. Church Walk to the north of the site cuts across the graveyard for St Georges, and early 19th-century burials were recorded here during construction of the road.

The closest events to the site are to the immediate south, including remains found below a loading bay, comprising butchered animal bones associated with fragments of 4th-century Roman pottery. Excavations undertaken after demolition of the Guildhall recorded part of a cobbled yard of post-medieval date, but did not find the line of the castle ditch that was suggested to run through this area. To the north of the site, archaeological monitoring undertaken during the construction of Church Way and the North Bridge Relief Road recorded a probable malting oven of medieval date and 18th- to 19th-century burials from the graveyard of St George's Church. Excavations at the Tesco store to the northeast recorded part of the line of the Roman fort and vicus ditches and the medieval castle ditch and a pottery kiln, as well as remains of a Roman building, though much of the site was disturbed by 19th-century cellars. Excavations in the vicinity of the Clergy House recorded medieval and post-medieval building remains and tanning activity, as well as part of the wall of the Roman fort and an 18th-century clay pipe kiln. Further remains of the fort, castle, and Roman to post-medieval settlement activity have been recorded through excavations around St George's Church, and excavations to the south of Church Way northeast of the site recorded a possible early medieval 'burh' defensive ditch. Excavations at the further edges of the buffer have recorded Roman, medieval and post-medieval activity, including a graveyard associated with the chapel of St Mary Magdalene and the site of a Carmelite Friary.

There are no Scheduled Monuments, listed buildings or registered parks and gardens within the site. One Scheduled Monument is within the northern buffer, a surviving stretch of wall from Doncaster's Roman fort. Two listed buildings are also located within the northern part of the buffer, the grade I minster church of St George, and the grade II Clergy House. A further 33 listed buildings are within the buffer, mostly to the east and southeast of the site. The nearest is a grade II listed building at 2 Baxter Gate. Others include the grade I listed Mansion House to the southeast and grade II* Market Hall to the east. The remaining 31 are all grade II listed and include houses, shops and banks largely of 18th- to 19th-century date with some earlier elements.


Historic Environment Characterisation records the present character of the site as mid-20th-century commercial development on the site of the former Guildhall, a mid-19th-century courthouse. Limited excavations at the time



of the redevelopment recorded deposits of 15th-century and later date, with the likelihood of earlier remains surviving beneath. It was noted that the new building (probably the Marks and Spencer's store adjacent to the site) was constructed as piles, with much of the site surviving beneath. Other character zones within the buffer include St George's Church and college buildings to the north, a canal wharf to the northeast, shopping centres, the market and historic and modern commercial core buildings to the east and southwest, an industrial estate to the northwest, a bus depot to the west, ring roads, and terraced housing at Priory Place.

Recent aerial imagery shows the site as occupied by buildings, including a three-storey flat-roofed office building of later 20th-century style, in the northern part of the site and attached one-and two storey offices and garages/stores along the southern side.


The 1854 OS town plan shows the site as occupied by buildings within long narrow yards, possibly former burgage plots, to the rear of larger buildings fronting onto French Gate. These included at least two public houses. The site remained relatively unchanged by 1937. By 1961, the current buildings had been constructed within the site, though most of the historic street-front buildings were still extant. There were no substantial changes within the site by 1989.

Within the buffer, the 1852 town plan shows similar development to that within the site along French Gate and Baxter Gate to the south, southeast, northeast and northwest of the site. The church yard, St Georges and a grammar school were to the north, and the postulated line of the castle ditch is shown as running to the northeast of the site on a northwest-southeast alignment. The Guild Hall was shown to the south of the site, and markets were at the eastern side of the buffer, with a water works and railway lines shows at the western side. The grammar school had become a larger free library and school of Art by 1894. Some clearance of historic buildings had occurred by 1961 at the southwest and west sides of the buffer. The Guild Hall was shown as a police station at that date. By 1969, Church Way had been constructed to the north of the site, and new larger buildings were shown to the east and west, with the Arndale Shopping Centre constructed to the south of French Gate. By 1989, the Guild Hall had been demolished and replaced with a much larger department store.

Survival:

The site is occupied by one- to three-storey office buildings and stores/garages, with the largest building at the northern side. The nature of the foundations of these buildings is unclear. If they are piled, there is a good potential for the survival of buried archaeological remains within the site, but if there are substantial foundations and basements, these are likely to have truncated archaeological deposits. The site is within an area where extensive remains of Roman to medieval date have been encountered, probably lying within the Roman civilian settlement associated with the fort immediately to the northeast. The fort site was later the focus of early medieval settlement activity and a Norman-period castle, with medieval activity recorded in the immediate vicinity of the site. There were buildings within the site during the 19th century, though it is unclear whether these were houses, workshops or outbuildings to the rear of public houses fronting onto French Gate.



Significance:

Unknown. Remains associated with the Roman fort and civilian settlement, and with medieval settlement could be of Local to Regional significance depending on their extent, nature and condition.


Aerial imagery from 2002-2017 shows the site occupied by buildings, with a larger three-storey office block at the north side, and an adjoining range of one- and two-storey buildings along the southern side. All have flat roofs and appear to be offices and stores or garages. The buildings are of mid-20th-century date.







Site? Buffer?

1004797 Wall of Roman fort SAM Y












1151447 Minster Church of St George I Y











1261881 The Grand Theatre, Top Rank Bingo Hall II Y




1286861 Clergy House II Y















Y


Founded 1350, dissolved 1538. No visual remains. The Friary occupied a plot on the southern edge of the medieval town, bounded by the town ditch and the burgage plots along High Street and St Sepulchre Gate. The buildings were demolished by 1767. Excavation off High St in 1977 revealed a large, well-made road [PIN05489] associated with the friary. A number of ovens and pits and a well excavated to the east of St Sepulchre Gate in 1976 could be associated with the friary [see PIN05488]. Evaluation off Cleveland Street in 1992 revealed evidence for activity on the site throughout the medieval period, with a possible peak in the 13th and 14th century.

Y



Y

00424/01 Friar's Bridge, Doncaster

Rebuilt 1740. No remains visible. Y


Y

00457/01 St George's Church, Doncaster

St George's is an impressive Victorian church on the site of a fine medieval building that was destroyed by fire in 1853. The only relic that survives of this earlier church is a vaulted crypt, roofed with medieval cross slabs, beneath the modern vestry and organ chamber. Burials from the early 18th century to 19th century extension to the original graveyard at St George's Church were identified in Church Way during redevelopment.

Y



Y

00665/02 Danum Wall A section of the Roman fort wall was uncovered during an excavation and left in situ. It is a Scheduled Monument.

Y


A notched flint dagger was found St Sepulchregate in 1937. Y

00782/01 Site of the Guildhall on Frenchgate, Doncaster

A 1969 excavation on site of Guildhall, several floors found back to 14th century. For finds see PIN 00783.

Y





Y



Y

00784/01 Site of medieval Moot hall, Doncaster

Remains of an aisled building with rough stone footings were found in 1971. It was constructed in the 13th century backfilled ditch around the castle motte and is thought to be a Moot Hall.

Y

00785/01 Possible Saxon Burh defences, Doncaster

A 1972 excavation recorded a ditch at High Fishergate. Clean sand and gravel contents suggested a late Saxon date for the ditch, which was then backfilled by builders of the Norman castle. A large ditch identified on this alignment at High Fishergate in 2006 suggested it may be part of the Roman fort.

Y



Y



Y


Roman coin, a Dupondius of Domitian (Rome mint A.D. 86) found during excavations in Market Place c.1930.

Y



Y


Remains possible of the York- Lincoln Road discovered during excavation at Frenchgate.

Y



Y







Y


Roman coin hoard - 63 AR Denarii and 4 AE coins (Galba - Marcus Aurelius) were found in 1929 in a lorry load of earth from Baxter Gate that was dumped on the Wheatley Hills Estate. About 40 further coins found at the same location were dispersed.

Y

01786/01 Roman Coin Hoard Hoard of 7 siliquae and an iron key found in build-up behind Y



and Iron Key found in Doncaster Town Centre

Roman Fort rampart during archaeological excavation in 1966, within area now covered by Littlewoods store. Coins cover period 337-388 A.D.



Y



Y

02263/01 Anglo-Saxon period pottery, hearth and pit, Doncaster town centre

A sherd of decorated handmade Anglo-Saxon pot was found in Doncaster excavations in 1970, associated with a hearth and part of a structure, dated to the last quarter of 6th century.

Y


Sherd of pagan Saxon pottery from the Doncaster excavations, not precisely in the same location as the decorated sherd in Magilton 1977 but found in the same campaign.

Y

02265/01 Anglo-Saxon period glass bead, Frenchgate, Doncaster

Dark green glass, irregular pale colour bands. Accessioned as Saxon. Found in Frenchgate 1908.

Y


Roman bronze harp-shaped brooch of an elegant design with pin missing.

Y



Y

03946/01 Frenchgate Medieval Pottery Kiln, Doncaster


Y


Excavation at Subscription rooms in 1976 - substantial footings of a late medieval building, fronting onto High Street. Well-preserved environmental material indicated squalid conditions, with food debris and layers of cut vegetation accumulating to several centimetres, before a fresh clay floor was laid.

Y



Y



Y

04438/01 Mid/Late 4th Century Midden Assemblage,

During a foundation trench excavation, a large amount of bone was unearthed. The trench was c. 1.5 x 1.5 x 0.4m, and cut the existing concrete flooring. The bone belonged to species such

Y



Doncaster as cattle, deer and dog, and were from butchery refuse. Found in context with the remains were two rim sherds dating to the mid/late 4th century A.D.



Y

04573/01 Pit Containing Pottery Wasters at Doncaster Cattle Market

A stone-lined pit, a well or cess pit, was noted during the construction of Church Way in 1971. Pottery wasters recovered from the pit indicate a kiln or kilns in the vicinity. No such remains were observed during further road clearance works nor during the construction of the multi-storey car park to the north. Such kilns may, therefore, be found to the south under the former cattle market carpark.

Y


The course of the Roman road through Doncaster was suggested to be along this route by plan form analysis. This has been confirmed in one location on Hall Gate and at 8-10 High Street. The cobbled road continued to be used into the medieval period.

Y


Evidence for post-10th-century medieval activity was recorded on this site at High Fisher Gate. This was suggestive of domestic occupation with small scale industrial activity, probably within domestic yards. Iron slag and a smithing hearth indicate metalworking. Evidence from animal bones indicate that some primary butchery was occurring nearby and possibly skinning for tanning. By the 11th to 12th centuries this area was a religious and commercial focus of the town.

Y

05021 Medieval Ovens and Tanning, Church Walk

Medieval features identified during an excavation included two ovens, possibly used for cereal drying and/or malting, and evidence for tanning activities, cess pits and three stone lined wells. The presence of glazed roof tiles and higher status artefacts does point to some higher status medieval occupation in the area. The working of skins continued in the area in the modern period, with a tannery at the site in 1906.

Y

05022 Medieval Stone Building, Greyfriars Road

Remains of a stone building dating to the medieval period were found in excavations. The building had a mortar floor with an external cobbled surface. It may have been associated with the nearby friary.

Y

05025 Doncaster Medieval Town Ditch, Doncaster Interchange

Section of the medieval town ditch identified by excavation. There was evidence for recutting of the ditch, indicating that it was regularly cleaned out. Pollen analysis indicated that the area was marginal for settlement at this time.

Y

05026 Medieval Well and Ditch, Doncaster Interchange

Medieval features were identified during an evaluation in 2003, containing pottery dated primarily to the 13-14th centuries.

Y

05027 18th Century Water Works

Site of an 18th century water works that employed a water powered pumping mill and later a steam engine.

Y


Before the Market Hall and Corn Exchange could be built in the late 19th century there was considerable clearance of the market area. This included demolition of the Butchers' Shambles, removal of the Butter Cross and demolition of the Town Hall. Excavations on the site of the Corn Exchange provided evidence for former back-to-back tenements, and a possible linen workshop.

Y





Y

05077 Clay pipe kiln at Church Street, Doncaster - in use c.1768-1782

Excavation in 1972 revealed a sub-rectangular pit, associated with a rough cobbled surface, identified as the base of a small kiln used in the manufacture of clay tobacco pipes c.1768-1782. It contained many broken stems and bowls, the former stamped with the name 'Lumley', identified as the manufacturer Samuel Lumley, mentioned in an advert of 1782.

Y



Y

05464 Site of industrial period steam mill, Grey Friar's Road, Doncaster


Y

05465 Site of industrial period bone mill, Grey Friar's Road, Doncaster

Bone mill shown on waterfront on1854 OS map, still extant 1906. Seems to have gone by 1937.

Y



Y



Y



Y



Y


A series of evaluation trenches on Baxtergate within the historic core of Doncaster. The SMR record for this site suggests the remains of a medieval building were revealed.

Y



Y



ESY121 Archaeological Watching brief, St George's Minster, Doncaster

An archaeological watching brief was carried out in 2005 during the excavation of cable trenches and post-holes associated with the erection of floodlights. Although a few sherds of unstratified pottery Roman and post-medieval pottery were recovered from the topsoil, no archaeological remains were encountered within the excavated trenches.

Y


A stone-lined pit, a well or cess pit, was noted by A B Sumpter during observation of the construction of Church Way, Doncaster, in 1971.

Y

ESY743 High Fisher Gate, Doncaster, South Yorkshire

An archaeological excavation on the site of a former supermarket recorded ditches relating to the Roman fort defences, along with medieval wells and pits. Finds included Roman, medieval and post-medieval pottery, Roman coins dating to mid-4th century AD, ceramic building materials and a glass bead. A large, putative Saxon ditch projected to run through the site was determined to be of likely Roman date.

Y



Y

ESY843 Archaeological Evaluation at Doncaster College, Church View, Doncaster, South Yorkshire

An archaeological evaluation revealed evidence of Roman activity with the recovery of pottery and ceramic building material, although no associated features were identified. Discard of refuse from the fort situated immediately to the south is a likely source for this material. Definitive evidence for occupation was not encountered until the late 13th to late 14th century, when a building with an internal mortar floor and external cobbled surface was constructed. By the post-medieval period, the area was in use as an orchard/garden before culverts were built as part of the re-routing of the River Cheswold by 1909.

Y

ESY852 Archaeological Watching Brief at High Fisher Gate, Doncaster, South Yorkshire

In 1998 a watching brief was conducted on the excavation of a pipe trench across High Fishergate on the edge of the Market Place. The trench was excavated in previously disturbed ground and nothing of archaeological interest or significance was encountered.

Y



Y


In 1995, an archaeological excavation was undertaken within the Corn Exchange to investigate the area of medieval burials, and to excavate and record post-medieval structures underlying the rubble fill encountered during the evaluation. Eleven articulated burials were exposed and examined, together with a large quantity of disarticulated human remains. The articulated skeletons were all aligned E-W and laid out with arms across the pelvis. The burials also appeared to be set in rows, and the density of inhumations was quite high. The boundary of the cemetery was found to extend

Y



further than originally anticipated, to a point some 50 metres to the north of the site of the church. In addition to the cemetery the excavation revealed a sequence of post-medieval activity on site. This included a large tenement structure, a possible workshop associated with the linen trade, and an unidentified workshop or outbuilding.



Y

ESY861 Archaeological Evaluation at the Proposed Interchange Site, Doncaster

Five trial trenches were excavated for proposed development of the Doncaster Interchange, currently Doncaster North Bus Station. Archaeological features revealed included the medieval town ditch, medieval pits, post-medieval boundary features and the remains of a late 18th century water-driven pumping mill and the bank-side of the River Cheswold.

Y

ESY862 Archaeological Watching Brief at Friars Gate, Doncaster, South Yorkshire

An archaeological watching brief was undertaken during ground works associated with construction of a car park. Despite the development having the potential to disturb the remains of a medieval friary, only modern deposits were impacted by the construction. Five worked masonry blocks retrieved from uncertified deposits provided tentative evidence for ecclesiastical structures in the vicinity.

Y

ESY863 Archaeological Mitigation (Phase III) at Doncaster Interchange, South Yorkshire

Mitigation comprised the excavation of two trenches and a watching brief on the excavation of nine pits for pile caps. A number of archaeological features were revealed, including the medieval town ditch, post-medieval boundary features and the remains of a late 18th century water-driven pumping mill, weir and stone revetted bank of the River Cheswold.

Y

ESY864 Doncaster North Bridge Project, Flavian Ditch and Multi-Storey Car Park Evaluation

Three evaluation trenches were excavated at the multi-storey car park and a single trench was dug to the west of Grey Friars Road. In the car park area, 15th- to 17th-century pottery was recovered along with a redeposited prehistoric flint scraper. Deposits possibly related to the later Roman fort were identified in the Grey Friars Road trench.

Y


B Following identification in a watching brief, there was an excavation of human and other remains in the central reservation of Church Way West.

Y

ESY867 Archaeological Watching Brief at Doncaster Waterfront Project, Doncaster, South Yorkshire

An archaeological watching brief was conducted during works along the waterfront in Doncaster town centre. Although these works were carried out within an area known to be highly populated with archaeological remains, none were observed within the excavated bore hole cores or test pits.

Y



Y


An archaeological watching brief undertaken at Priory Walk revealed the remains of a well of unknown date to the south of the site and a probable Victorian culvert to the northeast of the area. Later remains relating to the foundations and cellarage of post-medieval and modern buildings were found across the majority of the site.

Y




A programme of archaeological mitigation during construction works for the Doncaster North Bridge Project included a watching brief carried out across this area. [No details of results]

Y



Y

ESY1029 Greyfriars Road Evaluation

Trenches and hand augering. The auger survey suggested further archaeological deposits at a depth of 6.1 to 7.3mOD. [No details of results]

Y




Four trenches were excavated between Priory Walk and Cleveland Street. In the southern part of the area a large ditch was recorded, running roughly along the line of Printing Office Street. This was dated to the 13th century or earlier, as were a number of pits. In the central area were a number of rubble filled, probably robber, pits. A pit containing Roman pottery was also recorded.

Y



Y

ESY1034 Northbridge Relief Road Pollen Coring

Bore holes drilled for palaeoenvironmental sampling [no details of results].

Y



Y

ESY1036 Tesco Supermarket, West of Church View

Six trenches were excavated, of which the northernmost was disturbed by Victorian cellars and foundations. Part of the line of the Roman fort and Norman castle ditch were identified in the eastern trench. The south side of the site had up to 2m of Roman and medieval stratigraphy, with finds suggesting a Roman building nearby. The northwest side of the site was marsh in Roman and medieval times. Two defensive ditches possibly associated with the Roman vicus were also exposed, as well as a medieval pottery kiln and metalworking evidence.

Y



Y


Excavation in 1976 revealed Roman features including three wide ditches probably representing vicus defences, pits, a gully and a coin hoard. Medieval features included four ovens, a well, a stone-lined pit and culvert and several rubbish or cess pits. No evidence for buildings or burgage plots was identified.

Y

ESY1039 Guildhall and Frenchgate 1969-

Archaeological excavations were undertaken in 1969-70 after the demolition of the 19th-century Guildhall. The trenches did not find the postulated line of the 'Castle Ditch', but recorded

Y



70 part of the cobbled yard of the post medieval Old Angel Inn.


Y

ESY1041 North of Clergy Bridge House 1978

A research excavation was undertaken to the rear of Clergy House with the aim of locating the line of the northwest defences of the Roman forts. A section of the robbed Roman wall foundations was recorded. A roughly circular lime kiln was discovered in the centre of the excavation area.

Y

ESY1042 Church Way, Children's Library 1970

A limited excavation was undertaken on the site of the library. A large ditch containing residual Roman pottery and medieval pottery may have been part of the bailey ditch of the Norman Castle. It then appears that this area may have been kept clear until the construction of the Old Angel Hotel in the post-medieval period, with the 18th-century cobbling of the hotel's yard recorded, directly beneath the footings of the Church School, built in 1821, and those of the 1901 Children's Library.

Y

ESY1043 Church Street 1967-75

In 1967 a trench was excavated parallel to the eastern wall of Clergy House. At the north end were redeposited dumps of early Roman material, with underlying features truncated by the terracing of the area during the construction of Doncaster College. Medieval and post-medieval buildings and features recorded included a wood-lined pit, possibly used as part of the tanning process. A more extensive excavation was carried out in 1972 and 1975. This identified the footings of the Roman wall, dug into by medieval pits and cuts across by a medieval cellar. The wall was conserved and left exposed, and is a Scheduled Monument. Also identified were the remains of a kiln from a late 18th century clay pipe manufactory.

Y


Archaeological features were recorded on the western side of St George Gate during the construction of an extension to a department store. This required the demolition of 18th century properties, with excavations to a depth of 5m. The robber trench of the later Roman fort wall was recorded on the southwest side of the site, along with part of a parallel large ditch interpreted as a section of the Anglo-Saxon period inner 'burh' defences. A timber-lined well of probable 14th-century date was found on the northern side of the site. This was located on the line of the 'burh' defences, and suggests that they had gone out of use by this time.

Y



Y

ESY1046 High Fisher Gate 1972

An archaeological excavation was undertaken to the east of St George's Church. This identified the base of the ditch of the Roman Flavian era fort, and the shallow remains of a late Roman ditch. Parts of the inner and outer ditches of a post-Roman 'burh' were also identified. The edge of one ditch was within 2.5m of the foundations of the Roman wall. Most of the ditch fill seems to have accumulated from the erosion of a bank on its southwest side. The fill contained a range of

Y



pottery, from residual Roman pieces and a sherd of Saxon pot, to medieval Hallgate ware. This may suggest a process of infilling lasting from the later 12th century to the 14th century.



Y


An archaeological excavation undertaken during levelling work on a temporary car park identified the robber trench of the late Roman fort wall and a gravel road surface that may have formed part of a medieval road running behind medieval tenements fronting onto Market Place. A further trial trench identified the line of the inner 'burh' ditch and a possible recut, with the outer 'burh' ditch also investigated. A late 15th-century cess pit, the walls of a post-medieval building and two ovens, were also recovered.

Y



Y


Y

ESY1563 Marks and Spencer's department store, Frenchgate Watching Brief


Y



HSY5815 Old Guildhall Yard, Doncaster Commercial Core-Urban Y Y


HSY5797 Technical College and College of Art, Doncaster

University or College Y

HSY5798 Superstore, (former French Gate area), North Bridge Road, Doncaster

Shopping Centre Y

HSY5799 Frenchgate Interchange, Doncaster Bus Depot Y

HSY5800 Frenchgate Junction, Doncaster Ring Road / Bypass Y Y


HSY5802 Markets Gyratory System, Doncaster Motorway and Trunk Road Junctions

Y










Markets Y



HSY5832 Superstore, North Bridge Road, Doncaster Shopping Centre Y

HSY5868 Site of Franciscan Friary, Doncaster Other Industry Y

HSY5891 Common Staith, Doncaster Canal or River Wharf Y

HSY5912 Cleveland Street / Trafford Way, Doncaster Ring Road / Bypass Y



Allocation Reference:1094 Allocation Type: Housing Site Name: 1 Thorne Road, Doncaster






Summary

Within site Within buffer zone Scheduled Monument - - Listed Building - 27 SMR record/event - 15 records/20 event Cropmark/Lidar evidence No No Cartographic features of interest Yes Yes Estimated sub-surface disturbance Partial n/a



Allocation Reference: 1094 Allocation Type: Housing Site Name: 1 Thorne Road, Doncaster



The SMR does not record any monuments, findspots or events within the site. There are 15 monuments or findspots and 20 events within the buffer. The nearest to the site is an evaluation to the south of East Laith Gate which recorded a medieval wall overlain by a post-medieval wall, and a sand extraction pit of possible medieval date. Elsewhere within the buffer were a Roman cinerary urn found to the southeast near Hall Cross, a coin hoard found near Hall Gate to the south, another at Bower's Fold at the western edge, and settlement remains and a cremation cemetery in the area south of Hall Gate and Wood Street to the southwest. In the medieval period, the East Bar or gate into the town stood at the western edge of the buffer, and Ote de Tilli's Cross was at the south side at the junction of Hall Gate and Thorne Road. Medieval settlement remains, pottery kilns and a lime-slaking pit were recorded in excavations near Hall Gate in the southwest part of the buffer, and part of a 12-century column has been moved to Regent's Square. The site of Nether Hall Park was located to the west of the site prior to 1892, and post-medieval to industrial period buildings have been recorded in the buffer.

The events within the buffer include building recording, as well as evaluations, excavations and watching briefs. The nearest to the site was the evaluation that revealed the medieval wall and sand pit to the immediate south. At a greater distance, the cremation cemetery, Roman and medieval remains to the north and south of Hall Gate and Wood Street were recovered during archaeological investigations in advance of development. At Chequer Road in the southeast part of the buffer, post-medieval stake holes and post holes appeared to represent property boundaries, with the area likely used for agricultural and horticultural purposes from the medieval period onwards.

There are no Scheduled Monuments, listed buildings or registered parks within the site. Within the buffer, there are 27 listed buildings, mostly located to the south and fronting onto Hall Gate and South Parade, and including banks, shops, a church, lamp stand and houses. To the east, Christ Church is grade II* listed, with grade II listed railings around the churchyard. Apart from Christ Church, all the listed buildings within the buffer are grade II.



Historic Environment Characterisation records the present character of the site and much of the northern buffer as an area of terraced housing in a grid-iron arrangement, developed between 1882 and 1892 in the former Nether Hall park area. Other character zones within the buffer include markets and urban commercial core areas to the west and southwest, further terraced housing at the northeast and southeast edges, Christ Church to the east, schools to the south and east, and industrial and commercial units to the southwest.

Recent aerial imagery (2017) shows the site as a double-fronted end of terrace house of late 19th-century construction. There is a triangular yard area to the northwest.


The 1852 OS town plan shows the site as lying within an old gravel pit, at the southeast corner of Nether Hall Park. By 1894, an end-terrace house had been built within the site, with a small triangular yard to the northwest. No further changes were shown within the site by 1970, the latest available detailed map for the area.

Within the buffer, the 1852 town plan shows parkland associated with Nether Hall to the north of the site, with a screening plantation to the immediate north and northeast. Christ Church was to the east of the site, and back-to-back housing to the rear of Hall Gate to the south and along East Laith Gate to the west. The area to the east of Christ Church was largely gardens and fields, with a short terrace of houses east of the church. By 1894, much of Nether Hall Park had been developed with terraced housing in a grid-iron pattern, and Regent Square had



been built in a former field to the southeast. Further housing had been built at the north edge of the buffer by 1930, and further housing had been constructed to the east of Christ Church. Some redevelopment had occurred to the south by 1961, with cinemas and social clubs shown to the north of Hall Gate, and no further substantial changes had occurred by 1970. By 1984, some of the area to the southwest appeared to have been redeveloped, but no details are clear.

Survival:

The site is occupied by a late 19th-century double-fronted end-terrace house, built between 1882 and 1894. The house has some decorative architectural elements, and is likely to be considered a heritage asset in his own right. The house was built within a former gravel pit, shown on the 1852 town plan. This suggests that the potential for buried archaeological remains within the site is negligible.


No further investigations associated with sub-surface archaeology are likely to be required if the site is brought forward for development, though an assessment of the significance of the historic building may be necessary.

Significance:

The house is likely to be considered to be of Local archaeological significance.


Aerial imagery from 2002-2017 show a house occupying the majority of the site, with a triangular yard area to the northwest. The house is an end-terrace of three storeys in height, including attics, double-fronted with a central door surrounded by elaborate brickwork and moulding. The ground floor has bay windows to either side of the door. Two gables fronting onto Thorne Road have decorative brickwork around the eaves.





Site? Buffer?





















1286302 Numbers 4-9 Christchurch Terrace and railings II Y












No surviving remains visible Y


Rebuilt 1793 on new site at the end of South Parade. No vestige of original remains.

Y


There was a pottery in Hallgate, Doncaster in the late 13th and early 14th centuries. Main products comprised jugs, pipkins, pancheons and some roof tiles. The kiln, defined as probably a Type 2A two-flued, updraught kiln, was found with three pits all containing pottery wasters. The kiln was in production from the late 12th century to the late 13th or early 14th century.

Y



Y



Y


Roman burial urn - Found in 1748 near Hall Cross. Y


Roman coin hoard - about 40 AR denarii found during construction of Bowers Fold redevelopment in 1963. Majority dispersed in local pubs and some bought by Doncaster second hand dealer, who sold all except 2 to an unknown person from Scunthorpe. Two coins were purchased by Doncaster Museum: one of Hadrian (Rome mint 119-122 A.D.) and the other of Hadrian (Rome mint 134-8 A.D.).

Y


Excavations SW of main N-S Roman Road produced "slight Roman features and, disturbed in a Medieval pit, a hoard of 15 C2 AE coins, 3 intagli (two mounted in rings), 3 brooches and a

Y



surgeon's knife.


Rubble remnants of a limestone wall consisting of angular stone pieces set without any clear facing edge. Overlying this wall was a later post-mediaeval wall base consisting of large, angular blocks faced on either side and bonded by mortar. A pit cut into natural sand was investigated, probably a sand extraction pit. A multi-period pottery assemblage was recovered during excavation. Dates range from the Roman period to the modern period.

Y


Archaeological investigation at 53/54 Hallgate and the rear of 9 Wood Street revealed Roman inhumations and cremations. The density of the burial was quite low. The excavated site is thought to be on the edge of a larger cemetery. Later Roman features cut through some of the burials, these ditches, post holes and limestone slabbed floor were dated to the 3rd to early 4th century.

Y


The course of the Roman road through Doncaster was suggested to be along this route by plan form analysis. This has been confirmed in one location on Hall Gate. The cobbled road continued to be used into the Medieval period, evidenced by Late Saxon and 13th century pottery in the final phases of the surface. Excavations at 8-10 High Street also identified the road.

Y


Pre-Roman activity was identified on this site. A possible boundary ditch with associated bank and fence were sealed by the Roman Road that came through this area (PIN 05017). No artefacts were located to date these features more specifically. A possible Roman cremation was identified, although no burnt bone was recorded.

Y


A Roman ditch terminus or pit was identified during excavations on this site. There was "considerable truncation of the [Roman] deposits here during the medieval and post-medieval periods." A substantial medieval plough soil horizon covered the site. Contemporary with this was a cobbled surface interpreted as a pathway between open strip fields. It has previously been thought that the pre-18th century activity on Hallgate was confined to the street frontage, but 16th century structures were located further from the road.

Y


Roman type 2A kiln identified on excavations at Wood Street. The kiln is the same type as others found in the Hall Gate area. The ceramic material found in the kiln and associated features suggests a 1th-12th century date.

Y



Y


A long section across the site on a north-south axis was created by the removal of much of the site. The section was then cleaned and drawn.

Y


The function of two 19th century phase 2 buildings is not known, but they probably relate to manufacture (Building B) and administration (Building C). Phase 3 buildings represent an extensive late 20th century flat roofed extension, probably associated with its recent function of a print works.

Y


In 1996 an archaeological evaluation was undertaken in advance of redevelopment. Seven trenches were opened, with three containing 19th century deposits which destroyed or prevented access to earlier layers. A further three trenches contained features of post-medieval date. One trench revealed

Y



a sequence of occupation including a Roman pit, a medieval plough soil horizon, and post-medieval garden levels and floor surfaces.


An archaeological excavation was undertaken on land between Hallgate and Wood Street, Doncaster. Evidence was recovered for three phases of activity during the Roman and medieval periods. These include use of the site as a 1st/2nd century cemetery and cremation site, and the medieval production of pottery. In each case it is clear that the activities represented also extended into the surrounding areas.

Y


An archaeological field evaluation was carried out on the site to the rear of 53 Hallgate and 9 Wood Street in advance of the development of the site for use as a public house. The excavation identified a multi-phase occupation of the site.

Y


An archaeological evaluation encountered comprehensive evidence of Roman, medieval and post-medieval activity. In addition, a wattle fence and ditch were sealed by the Roman road may present pre-Roman activity, although in the absence of pre-Roman artefacts this is still to be confirmed. The Roman road, represented by at least seven phases of cobbles was situated to the north of the present street frontage. Two clay-lined pits, in addition to other discrete pits and post-holes, were medieval in date, while further post-holes and brick cellars represented post-medieval disturbance.

Y


The area covered by the development was considerably greater than originally investigated as part of the evaluation, and several phases of late medieval and post medieval occupation and activity were identified. These included stone buildings of 16th and 17th century origins, one of which had been modified to include a possible oven. More intensive development of the site occurred in the late 18th century, with the construction of brick- and stone-built cellared buildings.

Y


In 1998 an archaeological field evaluation was undertaken. Prior to the 20th century, the site appeared to have been used as gardens or agricultural land. A number of post-holes, stake-holes and other similar features were found cut into a post-medieval garden soil horizon. These represented property boundaries of the late-18th and 19th century. The subsoil beneath this layer appeared to have seen agricultural activity in the middle ages, and finds recovered from this level included residual sherds of Roman pottery. Nothing of further archaeological interest was encountered.

Y

ESY869 Building Recording at Odeon Cinema, 35-36 Hallgate, Doncaster

This site was initially developed in the 19th century an earlier buildings were replaced by the Gaumont Place, a specifically designed cinema in 1934. This was one of many being built at the time as the film industry developed. Originally providing both on screen and live stage entertainment, the building underwent a number of refurbishments and alterations over the intervening years and become a three screen cinema with no live entertainment, although the stage, orchestra pit and dressing rooms remain. The building ceased operation as a cinema in April 2008.

Y


An archaeological watching brief on the corner Of Prince Street and East Laith Gate, during the excavation of a foundation trench for a five storey building, revealed a series of modern and redeposited natural deposits. No archaeologically significant remains were identified.

Y

ESY871 An Archaeological Watching Brief

In 1997, watching brief was undertaken during refurbishment of the tavern. Two foundation holes for column bases were

Y



within the 'St. Leger Tavern', Silver Street, Doncaster

excavated in the cellar, and four trenches for drainage were excavated at ground floor level. Made ground was encountered below the existing surfaces, and nothing of archaeological interest was recorded.


Building recording was undertaken at the former Doncaster College. The Chequer Road Boys elementary School was built to a central hall design so that pupils could gather for special occasions. Around this time there was a change in thinking to more hygienic ventilated style of building. This Pavilion style was partially adopted by the 1926 Girls and Infants school. The 1910 High School for Girls selected elements of the new thinking whilst having a more ornate façade. The 1958 Technical College was built to cater for those born during the Second World war and to serve the growing mining and engineering industries in and around Doncaster.

Y


Photographic survey of building to look for archaeological potential. Extensive damage of the buildings by fire was noted. Former 1920s Odeon Cinema and Art Deco shop fronts noted. There was also a former 3 storey townhouse.

Y


Archaeological investigation of area surrounding human remains found during road resurfacing.

Y

ESY1051 High Street 1960 Observations were made by Doncaster Museum's Keeper of Antiquities during the cutting of a service trench along the south-west side of High Street, running from the corner of St Sepulchre Gate to the corner of Hallgate and Waterdale. A section of two hard-packed gravel surfaces were recorded, presumably the remains of the Roman road. A large quantity of Roman pottery was also recovered

Y


A medieval pottery kiln was discovered to the northeast of Hall Gate during excavations in 1964 and 1965, prior to the construction of the Bradford Row shopping centre. The kiln, defined as probably being a Type 2A two-flued, updraught kiln, was found with three pits all containing pottery wasters. The kiln was in production from the late 12th century to the late 13th or early 14th century.

Y


Assessment of former building at 27 Market Place, Doncaster. The building was a low two storey property dating to the 19th century or earlier. Details of the interior were recorded photographically, and measured survey of the interior undertaken.

Y


A watching brief was undertaken during demolition of buildings to the rear of the frontage. Limited ground reduction precluded an assessment of the below ground archaeological potential.

Y


Excavation for foundation trenches within a burnt out building on Silver Street were monitored but no archaeological features were encountered.

Y



Y





HSY5855 Nether Hall Housing Area, Doncaster Terraced Housing Y Y





HSY5857 Vaughn Avenue, Glyn Ave., Doncaster Terraced Housing Y

HSY5903 Hall Cross Comprehensive School, Doncaster School Y

HSY5904 Doncaster Grammar School, Doncaster School Y



HSY5907 Thorne Road, Doncaster Villas/ Detached Housing Y




HSY5919 South end of Hall Gate, Doncaster Terraced Housing Y




Allocation Reference: 1096 Allocation Type: Mixed Use Site Name: Land at Marshgate, Doncaster






Summary

Within site Within buffer zone Scheduled Monument - - Listed Building - 2 SMR record/event 1 event 14records/8 events Cropmark/Lidar evidence No Yes Cartographic features of interest Yes Yes Estimated sub-surface disturbance Extensive n/a



Allocation Reference: 1096 Allocation Type: Mixed Use Site Name: Land at Marshgate, Doncaster



The SMR records one event within the site and part of the buffer: a watching brief carried out as part of the Doncaster North Bridge relief road project covered part of the northeast edge of the site and recovered Roman ceramic, late medieval to early post medieval remains, 18th-century ceramics; and 18th/19th century burials. There are 14 monuments and seven events recorded within the buffer. Monuments comprise the route of a Roman road leading into Doncaster; medieval features which include the site of St Ancres’ chapel and St Edmunds Hospital, the site of a medieval motte and bailey which lies under St Georges Church, the site of a medieval Franciscan friary at St Marys Gate, a corn mill and a stone cross, all of which are no longer extant. Post medieval features comprise St Marys Bridge Chapel, which was lost by 1828; Friars Bridge of which there are no remains; Bentley and Arksey road bridge; and the site of an 18th-century water works. The events included archaeological investigation for the Doncaster Interchange project, which revealed part of the medieval town ditch, post -medieval boundary features and the remains of a late 18th-century water-driven pumping mill, weir and stone revetted bank of the River Cheswold. Excavation trenches and hand auguring conducted as part of the Greyfriars Road evaluation suggested that archaeological deposits were present at a depth of 6.1 to 7.3m OD. Geoarchaeological evaluation west of Church View suggested that the site the site retains good potential for archaeological remains for the Roman period and very good potential for medieval and post-medieval remains. Further excavation revealed part of the line of the Roman fort, a part of the large Norman castle ditch, 2m of undisturbed Roman and medieval stratigraphy, a layer of 2nd century AD pottery suggesting the presence of a Roman building in the vicinity, cobbled surfaces associated with Roman pottery, a medieval pottery kiln which would have produced Hallgate type pottery, and evidence of metal working.

No Scheduled Monuments, listed buildings or registered parks and gardens are located within the site. Two grade II listed buildings are situated within the buffer; a water tower at the former British Rail works and a road bridge immediately to the south of the junction with Hunt Lane.

The Magnesian Limestone in South and West Yorkshire Aerial Photographic Mapping Project recorded evidence of post medieval ridge and furrow in the northern and south-western parts of the buffer.

Directly southwest of the site is an area of historic landfill owned by British Rail.

The Historic Landscape Characterisation records the northeast part of the site as commercial land which was potentially the medieval suburb of Marsh Gate. It lies within the area of a former island probably created by the digging of the ‘Mill Dyke’ section of the river Don and the River Cheswold. The eastern side of the area comprised burgage plots which followed the course of the Roman road. The eastern series was the first to be lost as a result of the construction of the North Bridge Road section of the A1through the middle of its plots. This side of North Gate Road was redeveloped for retail use in the 1990s. The western side appears to have been cleared and redeveloped for light industrial and commercial use in the mid twentieth century. The southwest part of the site is also commercial land and this area was progressively improved through the late 19th and early twentieth century for light industrial and residential uses. Residential terraces within this area appear to have been cleared in favour of the current large warehouses between 1972 and 1982. The character of the buffer surrounding the majority of the site is recorded as areas used for industrial purposes such as depots and warehousing, and communications in the form of train sidings and Doncaster Train Station. In the far north is a traveller community site. In the southwest of the buffer stands Marshgate Prison, a modern prison opened in June 1994. Prior to this, the area was a power station.

Recent aerial imagery (2017) shows the site as occupied by light industrial and commercial units, car parking areas and some vacant lots, connected by a network of roads.


The 1852 OS map shows the site within an area of enclosed fields to the south of North Bridge Road. The layout of the medieval burgage plots of Marsh Gate can be seen to the north of the road and St Andrews Church was



located at the north-western edge of the site. By 1894 the former fields had been divided into small plots, Mill Street had been constructed and rows of houses, a church and industrial structures had been built. The northwest area of the site was known as Hirst’s Buildings and the southern part of the site was being used as a saw mill with associated timber yard. The 1902 map depicts an infant’s school within the centre of the site, with the rest of the site being used mainly for industrial purposes with a small amount of residential housing and St Andrew’s Church lining the southern side of North Bridge Road. By 1930 additional buildings had been erected within the northwest part of the site, including a joinery works and iron foundry. The northern area had seen an increase in residential houses and two pubs had been established to serve the local community. The 1961 map shows the site as having more of an industrial focus, and by 1980 a number of the remaining residential buildings had been converted to industrial premises. All traces of residential buildings had gone by 1992, as had the mill, being replaced by the large warehouses that exist today.

Survival:

Since the late 19th century this site has been subject to development, including terraced housing, a school and several works, with the majority replaced by more recent light industrial buildings. The development is likely to have truncated or destroyed earlier archaeological remains, but the potential for the survival of later 19th-century and early 20th-century remains is considered to be moderate to high. A watching brief covering the northeast edge of the site recorded remains from the late medieval period onwards, including 18th- to 19th-century burials, probably associated with St Andrew’s Church, located in this area by 1894.


Further archaeological investigation may be required if this site is brought forward for development.

Significance:

Remains associated with later 19th-century and early 20th-century housing and works could be considered to be of Local archaeological significance. Post-medieval burials could be of Local to Regional significance.


The 2002-2015 aerial photography shows the area to be an industrial concreted site boarded to the northeast by North Bridge Road with the remainder bounded by the Rivers Don and Cheswold. A number of large and smaller industrial warehousing and retail units stand on the site with the roads of Marsh Gate running between them. Access can be gained to the site from North Bridge Road or via a bridge across the River Cheswold in the southwest. By 2017, some units at the southern and northwest ends of the site had been demolished. No archaeological features or anomalies can be seen on Lidar data.


Google Earth: 2002, 2003, 2008, 2009, 2015 & 2017. Lidar 1m DTM. Street View 2016 & 2017.



Site? Buffer?

1151432 Water Tower at former BR Works II Y

1191852 Road bridge immediately to south of junction with Hunt Lane II Y



00416/01 St Mary's Gate, Doncaster

Gateway - no remains Y



00417/01 Mill Cross, site of a medieval stone cross

Erected c1250 and taken down in 1765 Y

00418/01 Site of medieval Franciscan Friary, Doncaster

Friary founded pre 1284 – no visible remains. Foundation of church found c1840 during canal construction.

Y

00419/01 St Mary's Chapel on the bridge, Doncaster

Probable bridge chapel standing in early 18th century, but no trace in 1828.

Y

00419/02 St Mary's Bridge, Doncaster

Bridge. Y

00424/01 Friar's Bridge, Doncaster

Bridge rebuilt 1740 - no remains visible. Y

00425/01 Site of Ancres Chapel, Sprotbrough

Fragments of medieval cross and foundations found. Hunter believed that the chapel of Ancres was within the foundation of the hospital of St Edmund.

Y

00425/02 St Edmund's Hospital, Doncaster

Hospital c.1271 - c.1547. Hunter believed that the chapel of Ancres was within the foundation of the hospital of St Edmund.

Y

00456/01 Doncaster Castle

The site of a medieval motte and bailey castle, with no visible remains. The castle mound stood in northeast corner of the Roman fort, under the east end of St George's Church. An angled stretch of churchyard perimeter perpetuated the line of the inner bailey ditch. The motte and ditch had been levelled by c.1200.

Y

02855/01 Industrial Period Road Bridge, Bentley with Arksey

Road bridge 1832-33 (altered?) with twin span segmental arches. Probably original to the Doncaster - Selby road, as this was turnpiked following an act 6 June 1832.

Y

03623/01 Medieval Corn Mill, north end of Marsh Gate, Doncaster

A pre-Norman origin seems likely as most communities of any standing (such as Doncaster) had a water mill by the 10th or 11th century. The mill and probably the mill race was enlarged several times as by 1279 there were 4 mills.

Y

03946/01 Frenchgate Medieval Pottery Kiln, Doncaster

Hallgate-type pottery kiln with evidence for metalworking. These finds suggest that the area contained backyards of medieval tenements.

Y


The course of the Roman road through Doncaster was suggested to be along this route by plan form analysis. This has been confirmed in one location on Hall Gate and at High Street. The cobbled road continued to be used into the medieval period, evidenced by late Saxon and 13th century pottery in the final phases of the surface.

Y

05027 18th Century Water Works

Site of an 18th century water works that employed a water powered pumping mill and later steam engine.

Y

ESY861 Archaeological Evaluation at the Proposed Interchange Site, Doncaster

Trial trenching revealed a number of archaeological features including the Medieval town ditch, medieval pits, post-medieval boundary features and the remains of a late 18th century water-driven pumping mill. The pump was demolished in the mid 20th century, to make way for the construction of the North Bus Station and Car Park. The excavations also revealed the bank-side of the

Y



River Cheswold, adjacent to the pump.

ESY863 Archaeological Mitigation (Phase III) at Doncaster Interchange, South Yorkshire

A number of archaeological features were revealed. These included the medieval town ditch, post -medieval boundary features and the remains of a late 18th century water-driven pumping mill, weir and stone reverted bank of the River Cheswold. The pumping mill was demolished in the mid 20th century, to make way for the construction of the North Bus Station and Car Park.

Y


A programme of archaeological mitigation during construction works for the Doncaster North Bridge Project included a watching brief carried out across this area. This recovered Roman ceramic; late medieval to early post-medieval remains; 18th-century ceramics and 18th- to 19th-century burials.

Y Y



Y

ESY1029 Greyfriars Road Evaluation

Trenches and hand auguring. Auguring suggests further archaeological deposits at a depth of 6.1 to 7.3mOD.

Y

ESY1030 Greyfriars Road Doncaster Watching Brief on Piling

Watch brief on piling Y

ESY1034 Northbridge Relief Road Pollen Coring

Bore holes drilled for palaeoenvironmental sampling Y

ESY1036 Tesco Supermarket, West of Church View

Six trenches were excavated, of which the northernmost was disturbed by Victorian cellars and foundations. Part of the line of the Roman fort and Norman castle ditch were identified in the eastern trench. The south side of the site had up to 2m of Roman and medieval stratigraphy, with finds suggesting a Roman building nearby. The northwest side of the site was marsh in Roman and medieval times. Two defensive ditches possibly associated with the Roman vicus were also exposed, as well as a medieval pottery kiln and metalworking evidence.

Y



HSY5867 North Gate Road (Marsh Gate Suburb area), Doncaster

Retail Park Y Y

HSY5940 Large Warehouses south west of Marsh Gate, Doncaster.

Commercial Core-Suburban Y Y

HSY5090 Interchange at south end of York Road, Doncaster

Motorway and Trunk Road Junctions

Y

HSY5717 Plant Works, Doncaster Other Industry Y

HSY5723 Marshgate Prison, Doncaster Prison Y

HSY5798 Superstore, (former French Gate area), North Shopping Centre Y



Bridge Road, Doncaster

HSY5799 Frenchgate Interchange, Doncaster Bus Depot Y


HSY5832 Superstore, North Bridge Road, Doncaster Shopping Centre Y

HSY5860 Goods Yard, Friars Gate, Doncaster Train Depot/ Sidings Y

HSY5866 Corporation Yard, Doncaster Municipal Depot Y

HSY5868 Site of Franciscan Friary, Doncaster Other Industry Y

HSY5915 Doncaster Station, Doncaster Train Station Y

HSY5938 Caravan Site, Marsh Gate, Doncaster Romany or other Traveller Community site

Y

HSY5939 Industrial units around Power Station Road, Doncaster

Other Industry Y

HSY5941 Site of Town Mill / St Mary's Chapel, Doncaster Ring Road / Bypass Y



Allocation Reference:1097 Allocation Type: Employment Site Name: Steel Supplies Ltd, Arksey Lane, Bentley






Summary

Within site Within buffer zone Scheduled Monument - 1 Listed Building - 1 SMR record/event - 2 records/4 events Cropmark/Lidar evidence Yes Yes Cartographic features of interest Yes Yes Estimated sub-surface disturbance Partial n/a



Allocation Reference: 1097 Allocation Type: Employment Site Name: Steel Supplies Ltd, Arksey Lane, Bentley



The SMR does not record any monuments, findspots or events within the site. Two monuments and four events are recorded within the southwest side of the buffer zone. One of the monuments is Moat Hills medieval moated site, which is also a Scheduled Monument. This comprises two islands surrounded by a substantial moat and divided by a ditch crossed by a causeway. It is likely to have been a moated manor in the medieval period, possibly the site of Bentley Old Hall. One of the events was trial trenching adjacent to the moated site which identified part of the inner bank and ceramic building material possibly from the old hall. The other monument and three events related to trial trenching adjacent to Arksey Lane, which identified a ditch and a wall probably from a dismantled post-medieval building, possibly dating to the 17th century. Two watching briefs undertaken in this area did not identify any further archaeological remains.

There are no Scheduled Monuments, listed buildings or registered parks and gardens within the site. One Scheduled Monument is recorded in the southwest part of the buffer, the site of Moat Hills medieval moated manor. A grade II listed farmhouse is located at the northern edge of the buffer.

The Magnesian Limestone in South and West Yorkshire Aerial Photographic Mapping Project did not record any features within the site. The earthworks of Moat Hills moated site were plotted in the southwest part of the buffer, as well as adjacent ridge and furrow cultivation in an area now built over. Further ridge and furrow was recorded near Stockbridge Farm and Bridge Farm in the northern part of the buffer, and probable field boundary ditches of uncertain date in the eastern part of the buffer.

Historic Environment Characterisation records the eastern half of the site and a strip of the northern buffer as piecemeal enclosure at the possible former site of the deserted medieval village of Stockbridge. The western part of the site and much of the southeast and southwest buffer is characterised as agglomerated fields, where boundary loss has led to a reduction in the former character of semi-regular and piecemeal enclosure possibly resulting from early private enclosure from common land. Other character zones within the buffer include mid-20th-century and modern semi-detached housing to the west of the site, early 20th-century terraced housing in Bentley New Village at the western edge, the Moat Hills site and a refuse tip to the southwest, a cemetery to the northeast and piecemeal enclosure to the northeast and northwest.

Recent aerial imagery (2017) shows the site occupied by a large works building with hard-surfaced yards to the south and west.


The 1854 OS map shows the site as part of a field to the south of Hall Lane. The current north and east boundaries were extant at that date. By 2930, the present south and west boundaries were extant, and the southern part of the site was occupied by buildings, possibly works and a small row of four terraced houses. The northern part of the site was a vacant plot at that date. The works buildings were labelled 'Bristol Works (wire)' in 1939, when the northeast part of the site was shown as rough ground. The four houses were named Bristol Cottages in 1959, when the works building had extended southwards. By 1974, a large works building had been constructed in the northern part of the works (the building still extant in 2017). The cottages had been demolished by 1992, but all the works buildings were still standing at that date. The southern building had been demolished by 2002.

Within the buffer, the 1854 OS map showed a railway line to the east of the site, with Stockbridge Station to the northeast on Arksey Road, and Moat Hills at the southwest edge of the buffer. Hall Lane, Dam Hill Drain, Hemp Pits Road and Stockbridge Lane were present within the buffer, and a building was shown to the north of the site, possibly Bridge Farm. The remainder of the buffer was fields, mostly quite irregular. Stockbridge Farm was present at the northern edge of the buffer. The station had been renamed Arksey Station by 1892. By 1930, a cemetery had been established in the northeast part of the buffer, and terraced and semi-detached housing had been constructed at the western edge of the buffer A pump house (drainage) was shown to the north of the site.



By 1974, a club was shown to the southwest of the site.

Survival:

The site has been occupied by a wire works, cottages and steel works buildings from at least the 1930s. The buildings in the southern part of the site, including the older part of the works and a row of four cottages, possibly to house workers, were demolished prior to 2002 and this area is now a hard surfaced yard. The northern buildings, dating to the 1960s-70s, is still extant. The western arm of the site does not appear to have been developed. Given the proximity of the site to a medieval manor house and the possible site of a deserted medieval village, there may be the potential for encountering medieval remains in the western arm of the site. Remains associated with the 1920s works and cottages may survive in the southern part of the site, but this development is likely to have disturbed any earlier remains within the northeast and southern parts of the site.



Significance:

Unknown. Remains associated with the early 20th-century works and cottages are likely to be considered to be of Local archaeological significance. Any remains associated with medieval activity could be considered to be of Local to Regional archaeological significance depending on their extent, nature and condition.


Aerial imagery from 2002-2017 show a steel works building within the site, comprising two adjoining single-storey ranges with pitched corrugated roofs. The western and southern areas were hard-surfaced yards, the southern yard used for storage. The external walls of the buildings are of brick, with corrugated sheeting on the gable ends.


Google Earth 2002, 2003, 2008, 2009, 2013, 2014, 2015 & 2016. Street View 2009.

Photographs transcribed by the Magnesian Limestone mapping project: RAF/CPE/UK/1880 3072 06-Dec-1946; OS/56T21 0070 13-Sep-1956; OS/56T21 0093 13-Sep-1956; MAL/60427 81658 21-Jun-1960.



Site? Buffer?

1013655 Moat Hills moated site, Bentley SM Y

1314881 Stockbridge Farmhouse II Y



00397/01 Moat Hills Moated Manor Site, Bentley

The monument comprises two islands surrounded by a substantial moat and divided by a ditch running northwest to southeast. The south side was destroyed by a refuse tip. A causeway crosses the central ditch and a grass covered rubble pile is believed to be the remains of the gatehouse. Trial trenching identified part of the inner bank of the moated area, along with ceramic building material possibly associated with Bentley Old Hall.

Y

04545/01 Post-Medieval Building

Trial trenching area discerned three phases of activity. The earliest phase was a ditch, which could be associated with the

Y



(destroyed), Arksey Lane Daycare Centre

nearby scheduled monument of Moat Hills. The next phase was a wall suggestive of a former building, which was later robbed out with only a small section left in situ. The wall is suggested to date from the 17th to 19th centuries.

ESY335 Archaeological Field Evaluation at Arksey Lane, Bentley

In March 1995 an archaeological evaluation was undertaken at Arksey Lane in Bentley. The results revealed the presence of a number of possibly post-medieval features.

Y

ESY488 Archaeological Evaluation at Bentley Sewage Works

In 1996 an archaeological evaluation at the Bentley Sewage Works attempted to locate the south-eastern section of moat for the adjacent Moat Hills site. The inner bank of the moat was detected and a number of roof tiles from a pre-modern structure were found, suggesting a substantial building (possibly Bentley Old Hall) had once stood on this site.

Y

ESY491 Archaeological Watching Brief at Arskey Lane

In 1997 a watching brief was conducted on this site off Arskey Lane. No archaeological deposits or features were observed.

Y

ESY1574 Land at Arksley Lane, Bentley

A watching brief was conducted on a residential development at Arksey Lane. No deposits or features of archaeological interest were observed during this watching brief.

Y



HSY5076 Site of Stockbridge, Arksey, Doncaster Piecemeal Enclosure Y Y

HSY5060 Land between Arksey and Bentley Common. Agglomerated fields Y Y

HSY4969 'The Avenue' (south end), Bentley New Village, Doncaster

Terraced Housing Y

HSY5045 Disused tip, Bentley Sewage Works, Doncaster Regenerated Scrubland Y

HSY5046 Bentley 'Moat Hills' Moated Site, Doncaster Elite Residence Y

HSY5049 Dam Hill Cemetery, Arksey, Doncaster Cemetery Y

HSY5051 Dam Hill Cemetery (post war extension), Doncaster

Cemetery Y

HSY5059 Land around Stockbridge, Bentley with Arksey, Doncaster

Piecemeal Enclosure Y

HSY5077 White Rose Court, Bentley, Doncaster Planned Estate (Social Housing) Y

HSY5079 Arksey Lane, Bentley, Doncaster Semi-Detached Housing Y

HSY4969 'The Avenue' (south end), Bentley New Village, Doncaster

Terraced Housing Y



Allocation Reference:1098 Allocation Type: Employment Site Name: Land Off Little Lane, Clay Lane, Doncaster






Summary

Within site Within buffer zone Scheduled Monument - - Listed Building - - SMR record/event - - Cropmark/Lidar evidence No Yes Cartographic features of interest No Yes Estimated sub-surface disturbance Low n/a



Allocation Reference: 1098 Allocation Type: Employment Site Name: Land Off Little Lane, Clay Lane, Doncaster



The SMR does not record any findspots, monuments or events in the site or the buffer zone; however, the site of Long Sandall Roman fort is just outside the buffer to the northeast.


The Magnesian Limestone in South and West Yorkshire Aerial Photographic Mapping Project did not record any features within the site. Ridge and furrow earthworks were recorded in the western part of the buffer and at the southeast edge from photographs taken in the 1940s-50s. Parts of these areas have since been developed. A WWII anti-aircraft battery comprising four gun positions was plotted in the buffer to the southeast of the site.

The Historic Environment Characterisation records the present character of the majority of the site and much of the surrounding buffer as an area of mixed industrial use adjacent to the River Don. It includes numerous large factories (many now demolished) as well as smaller works and yards, with industrialisation beginning in the mid-20th century. Prior to this, the land was agricultural and comprised fields probably enclosed from common land by Parliamentary Award in 1771. There is no legibility of the former landscape. The southern edge of the site and southern buffer is characterised as a sewage works originating in the early 20th century. Other character zones within the buffer are an area of wharfage on the 18th-century Wheatley Cut of the River Don Navigation to the north and a mid-20th-century glassworks to the northeast.

Recent aerial imagery (2017) shows the site as an area of rough grass and scrub between the sewage works to the south and industrial buildings to the north.


The majority of the site was shown as strip fields on the 1854 OS map. A short length of Little Lane and its southwest terminus extended into the southwest part of the site at that date, but had been removed by 1892. Other than the amalgamation of several field boundaries, no further changes were shown within the site on the 1930 OS map. All of the 19th-century field boundaries had been removed by 1959 when the site was part of a much larger field. By 1993, the field had been reduced in size by development to the north and south, and the current site boundaries had been established.

Within the buffer, the 1854 map showed fields to the north, east and south, with Little Lane along the western boundary of the site, West Lane along the north and Fore Hill further to the north. The former course of the River Don and the Don Navigation Wheatley Cut were in the west and northwest parts of the buffer, with a wharf on the canal to the northwest. A sewage farm was labelled to the southwest of the site in 1906, but no associated structures were depicted. West Lane had been renamed ‘Clay Lane’ by that date. A sewage works with tanks, sludge beds, settling tanks and filter beds had been constructed to the south of the site by 1930, and had extended northwards by 1960, when a small works was shown to the north of Little Lane and Wheatley Hall Road had been constructed in the southeast part of the buffer. A larger works had been built in the northeast part of the buffer by 1969, and by 1970 a timber yard and depots had been built to the immediate northeast and east of the site, when the small works to the north was labelled ‘Pre-Cast Concrete Works’. The sewage works had been extended again by 1993.

Survival:

The site was fields by 1854 and has remained undeveloped land since that date, though the raised platforms at the eastern edge of the site may indicate that there is some disturbance in this area associated with construction of the adjacent sewage works. Within the majority of the site, the conditions for the survival of buried archaeological remains are considered to be moderate to good. The site of Long Sandall Roman fort lies approximately 0.35km to the northeast of the site. Given the orientation of the fort, the road that led from the fort’s south entrance is likely to have crossed or run very close to the site. Roman cemeteries were located along the sides of roads and it therefore possible that burials from this period may also be located within the site. A



vicus or civilian settlement may have been present in the fort’s immediate vicinity and there is the possibility that associated remains may be present within the site. Given the lack of deep ground disturbance, the potential for the survival of buried archaeological remains is considered to be moderate to high.



Significance:

Unknown. Any remains associated with the Roman road, settlement or burial activity could be considered to be of Local to Regional significance depending on their extent, nature and condition.


Aerial imagery from 2002-2017 show the site as rough grassland between sewage works to the south and industrial buildings to the north, with an area of possible seasonal flooding or waterlogged ground at the northwest side. A parch mark within the site, adjacent to one of the sewage works structures, is of uncertain origin, possibly a former parking area associated with the works, with a track leading to it through the western part of the site also visible as a parch mark. A narrow earthwork bank or bund runs along the northwest site boundary, visible in the Lidar data, which also shows an adjacent area of minor ground disturbance close to the area of occasional standing water. Raised platforms in the west and southeast parts of the site are associated with the filter beds of the adjacent sewage works.


Google Earth: 2002, 2003, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2014, 2015 & 2017. Street View 2012. Lidar 1m & 2m DTM.

Photographs transcribed by the Magnesian Limestone aerial mapping project: Ridge and furrow: RAF/CPE/UK/1880 1111 06-Dec-1946; RAF/58/469 5026 02-Jun-1950; anti-aircraft battery: MAL/60427 81653 21-Jun-1960.



HSY5173 Sandall Sewage Works, Wheatley Hall Road, Doncaster

Utilities Y Y

HSY5174 Wheatley Hall Road, Wheatley Doncaster Other Industry Y Y

HSY5352 Clay Lane, Long Sandall, Doncaster Glassworks Y

HSY5394 Wheatley Cut, Long Sandall, Doncaster Canal or River Wharf Y



Allocation Reference:1099 Allocation Type: Employment Site Name: Land South Of Holme Wood Lane, Armthorpe

Area (Ha): 30.43 NGR (centre): SE 6387 0415 Settlement: Armthorpe





Summary

Within site Within buffer zone Scheduled Monument - - Listed Building - - SMR record/event 4 events 3 records/5 events Cropmark/Lidar evidence Yes Yes Cartographic features of interest No No Estimated sub-surface disturbance Low n/a



Allocation Reference: 1099 Allocation Type: Employment Site Name: Land South Of Holme Wood Lane, Armthorpe

Area (Ha): 30.43 NGR (centre): SE 6387 0415 Settlement: Armthorpe


The SMR records four events within the site, two of which are geophysical surveys. One of these revealed sufficient evidence to suggest that a field system detected to the north of Holme Wood Lane does continue into the site, with some related features including a possible barrow or large ring ditch. However, many features may have been truncated by ploughing as their anomalies were indistinct and discontinuous. The second geophysical survey was located along the eastern end of the site as part of evaluation in advance of a pipeline and also extended outside the site boundary to the northeast. This did not identify any features clearly of archaeological origin within the site. Two events located within the site are evaluations. In 1995 an archaeological evaluation was undertaken on land off Nutwell Lane in the southern part of the site, revealing a number of pits and ditches representing several phases of agricultural land use dating to (at least) the Iron Age and Romano-British periods, although the actual evaluation trenches appear to have been located outside of the site boundary, to the west. Monitoring of the pipeline along the eastern edge of the site revealed three ditches and two pits, all of probable post-medieval date. The ditches appeared to represent field boundaries marked on early OS maps. Two further monuments and one findspot are recorded within the buffer zone: to the south, the Iron Age to Roman remains excavated of Nutwell Lane and a Neolithic flint axe, and in the northern end of the buffer zone a WWII bombing decoy.

There are no Scheduled Monuments, listed buildings or registered parks and gardens within the site or the buffer zone.

The Magnesian Limestone in South and West Yorkshire Aerial Photographic Mapping Project recorded one ditch feature crossing the northwest tip of the site. This is likely to be associated with fragmentary traces of Iron Age to Roman field systems recorded within the buffer zone, to the immediate north, west and south of the site, These extend beyond the buffer zone, particularly to the west, and are part of a wider agricultural landscape with dispersed farmstead settlements.

The Historic Environment Characterisation records the present character of the majority of the site and the southern and eastern areas of the buffer zone as agglomerated fields, formerly characterised by surveyed enclosure boundaries probably dating to the 1774 Parliamentary Award. Rapid removal of internal boundaries between the 1960s and 1980s left no legibility of previous landscape types. The north-eastern corner and northwest tip of the site and the northern buffer zone are characterised as a commercial distribution centre, with partial legibility of older field boundaries. A small area at the western side of the site is characterised as part of an area of mid-20th-century villas and detached housing, though it appears to be a modern chicken farm. To the west of the site, the rest of the buffer zone is characterised as a mix of modern housing types.

Recent aerial imagery (2017) shows the majority of the site as several arable fields with hedge boundaries. The M18 motorway forms the eastern boundary of the site, and housing at Armthorpe forms the western boundary and extends into the western side of the site. The northwest tip is part of a roundabout associated with the distribution centre to the north.


In 1854, the site covered several fields, labelled Whiphills to the east and Southwood Field to the west. The fields to the west were narrow and rectangular, whilst those to the east were arranged in a more irregular pattern. A drain ran along most of the northern site boundary, Whiphill Lane ran approximately east-west across the site, and New Close Wood was present in the northeast corner. By 1956, the area at the northern end of the site was labelled Armthorpe. By 1968 the majority of the internal field boundaries had been removed and the drain along the northern site boundary was named Village Drain. The 1982 map depicted some structures along the western boundary of the site, towards the south end, labelled Poultry Houses. The M18 had also been constructed by this time, creating the eastern site boundary.

Within the buffer zone, in 1854 the area surrounding the site was fields, with very little development. At the



south-western end of the buffer zone, Southwood Field Farm was present. Whiphill Wood was present in the eastern half of the buffer zone. Little change occurred until 1968, by which time many of the field boundaries had been removed, and some development had begun to occur on Whiphill Lane, to the west of the site. One of the buildings was marked as a depot. By 1982, the northern area to the west of the site was heavily developed with housing, butting up to the western site boundary. The southern area to the west of the site remained undeveloped, as did the majority of the buffer zone with the exception of the M18, to the immediate east of the site, which had been constructed by this time.

Survival:

With the exception of the Poultry Houses first depicted on the 1982 map at the very western end of the site, and the distribution centre roundabout at the northwest tip of the site, no known development has occurred on the site since 1854. The site is likely to have been in agricultural use since at least 1774, although probably earlier. This may have caused some truncation of sub-surface deposits, as confirmed by geophysical survey, but the potential for survival of buried remains below the plough zone is likely to be moderate to high. The area has been covered by previous geophysical survey and monitoring. The geophysical survey (ESY766) covered the majority of the site and extended very little into the buffer zone. The results of the survey indicate that Iron Age to Romano-British field systems and associated features may exist on the site. The evaluation (ESY272) recorded a number of pits and ditches representing several phases of agricultural land use dating to (at least) the Iron Age and Romano-British periods. However, the evaluation trenches were located outside the site, and the condition and extent of survival of features within the site is currently uncertain.


Further archaeological investigation is likely to be required if the site is brought forward for development.

Significance:

Remains associated with Iron Age to Roman agricultural activity and dispersed settlement could be considered to be of Local to Regional archaeological significance depending on their extent, nature and condition. Geophysical survey suggested that there has been considerable truncation of remains within the site, and surviving remains are more likely to be of Local significance.


Aerial imagery from 2002-2017 demonstrate little change on the site since the 1992 map, with the exception of additional housing at the southern end of the western buffer zone, creating the southern site boundary in that area, and more industrial sheds/depots to the north. The site contains a number of fields, all of which appear to be in agricultural use, apart from a roundabout associated with the distribution centre in the northwest tip.

The Lidar data within the site shows only field boundaries, and part of a ramp for a bridge over the M18. a small area of possible narrow ridge and furrow within the plantation at the northeast corner of the site. There is a wide raised area of ground at the southern end of the site, possibly a natural ridge.


Google Earth 2002, 2003, 2008, 2009, 2015 & 2017. Lidar 1m & 2m DTM.

Photos transcribed by the Magnesian Limestone aerial mapping project: OS/67249 0021 23-Jun-1967, MAL/71046 0035 03-May-1971, MAL/77018 0001 02-Jul-1977, SE6303/1 NMR 17731/55 18-Jul-2002.



01261/01 Neolithic flint axe Whiphills, Armthorpe

Neolithic axe - Flint axe from Whiphills. Y

04722 C34(b) Armthorpe A 'QL' type (simulated urban lighting) bombing decoy at Y



WWII Bombing Decoy

Armthorpe. The exact location is unknown. It was designed to simulate the lights of Doncaster.

05076 Iron Age and Romano-British field system, Nutwell Lane, Armthorpe

Geophysical survey of a proposed development site revealed a number of linear features, suggesting enclosures and a trackway, and a number of more amorphous features. Fieldwalking of the site revealed a scatter of flints, including a Neolithic arrowhead, and a scatter of Roman, late medieval and post-medieval pottery associated with manuring. Four trial trenches revealed a number of features. The earliest phase appeared to be pits and gullies, cut by later ditches. These ditches formed part of an Iron Age to Roman field system that had developed over time, with elements being added onto a rectangular enclosure. A series of ditches running on a different alignment are presumed to represent a separate phase of enclosure.

Y

ESY270 Archaeological Investigations at West Moor Park

Between 1999 and 2007 various archaeological investigations have been conducted at West Moor Park and off Rands Lane in Armthorpe. The area is characterised by an agricultural and industrial Romano-British landscape of enclosures, 'brickwork plan' field systems, hearths, ovens/kilns, a well and cremations. This rural community was involved in livestock husbandry, cereal production, coppicing and ironworking. The origins of the landscape are likely to be late Iron Age in date but activity is concentrated in the 2nd to 4th centuries AD.

Y

ESY272 Archaeological Evaluation off Nutwell Lane, Armthorpe

In 1995 an archaeological evaluation was undertaken on land off Nutwell Lane. The results of revealed a number of pits and ditches representing several phases of agricultural land use dating to (at least) the Iron Age and Romano-British periods.

Y Y

ESY643 Fluxgate Gradiometer Survey, Nutwell Water Treatment Works, Doncaster Pipeline

A systematic gradiometer survey was carried out at several locations along the route of a proposed water pipeline. Responses thought to be archaeological in nature were found in areas within areas 3 and 6. Area 3 revealed several pit-type anomalies that are bounded by a former field-system/track. Within area 6 a number of former field systems have been identified. Ridge and furrow has also been found within two of the areas, while modern ploughing also visible throughout data sets. Field drains have been identified within some areas, including a herringbone pattern in Area 6.

Y Y

ESY766 Geophysical Survey of land adjacent Holme Wood Lane, Armthorpe

Cropmark evidence had suggested that features were present in sandy soils across the site, however few existed where clay dominated areas. The survey revealed sufficient evidence to suggest that a field system detected to the north of Holme Wood Lane does continue into the site and there may be a scatter of related features. However, it was also clear that many features may have been truncated by ploughing as their anomalies are indistinct and discontinuous.

Y Y

ESY908 Archaeological Monitoring and Trial Trenching at Doncaster Water Pipeline, South Yorkshire

Excavations at two sites along the route of the pipeline revealed ditches and trackways corresponding to cropmarks of Iron Age to Romano-British field systems. Excavation of a third site at Kilham Farm close to the site of Romano British pottery kilns also revealed a number of ditches indicative of such field systems. The ditches excavated formed part of a locally, if not regionally important complex of cropmarks in the area to the east of Doncaster. The excavations confirmed the presence of field ditches and trackways identified from cropmarks, as well as identifying features not visible on aerial photographs. Despite an almost complete absence of artefactual and environmental evidence from the features, excavations have provided an insight into the use and re-use of Iron Age and Romano-British field system in the region.

Y Y





HSY4497 Cantley Common, Cantley, Doncaster Agglomerated fields Y

HSY4511 West Moor Park (Phase 2), Armthorpe, Doncaster

Distribution Centre Y Y

HSY4514 Southwood Field, Armthorpe, Doncaster Agglomerated fields Y Y

HSY5006 Alder Holt Close, Armthorpe, Doncaster Private Housing Estate Y

HSY5008 Wicket Hern Road, Armthorpe, Doncaster Private Housing Estate Y

HSY5009 Whiphill Lane, Armthorpe, Doncaster Villas/ Detached Housing Y

HSY5011 Locking Drive, Armthorpe, Doncaster Private Housing Estate Y

HSY5024 Walbank Road, Armthorpe, Doncaster Private Housing Estate Y

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