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Doncaster Local Plan: Archaeological Scoping Assessment

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Allocation Reference: 501 Allocation Type: Housing Site Name: Adjacent 46 Marshlands Rd, Thorne Moorends

Area (Ha): 0.53 NGR (centre): SE 6936 1566 Settlement: Thorne Moorends

Allocation Recommendations

Archaeological significance of site Unknown

Historic landscape significance Negligible

Suitability of site for allocation Uncertain archaeological constraint

Summary

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



Allocation Reference: 501 Allocation Type: Housing Site Name: Adjacent 46 Marshlands Rd, Thorne Moorends


Site assessment Known assets/character:

The SMR does not record any features within the site. One findspot is recorded within the buffer zone, a Bronze Age flint arrowhead.

No listed buildings or Scheduled Monuments are recorded within the site or buffer zone.

The Magnesian Limestone in South and West Yorkshire Aerial Photographic Mapping Project records levelled ridge and furrow remains within the buffer zone.

The Historic Environment Characterisation records the present character of the site as modern commercial core-suburban, probably associated with the construction of Moorends mining village in the first half of the 20th century. There is no legibility of the former parliamentary enclosure in this area.

In the western part of the buffer, the landscape character comprises land enclosed from commons and drained in 1825, with changes to the layout between 1851 and 1891 in association with the construction of a new warping system. The legibility of previous landscape types in this area is fragmentary. The remainder of the landscape character within the buffer comprises 1930s and later 20th century housing development, with no legibility of previous character types.

The site was in agricultural use in 1825 and remains undeveloped land at the present day, though surrounded by 20th-century development on all sides.

Cartographic/historic land use assessment:

The site was shown as part of a field on the 1825 Thorne, Hatfield and Fishlake enclosure map. No change was shown within the site on the 1841 and 1854 Ordnance Survey maps, which showed the site as part of Bloom Hill. A track that led into the site from North Common Road by 1961 terminated at an unknown rectangular structure in the site’s central area. Neither of these features were shown on the 1971 OS map. No change had occurred within the site by 1991.

Within the buffer zone, Marshland Road, North Common Road and North Common Drain were shown on the 1825 enclosure map, with Micklethwaite’s Farm and Grange Farm shown on the 1841 OS map. Bloom Hill Farm was shown to the south of the site in 1854, while the Doncaster to Hull branch of the North Eastern Railway had been built to the west by 1892. Buildings, including a public house and shops, had had been constructed along the site’s eastern boundary by 1956.

Survival:

Due to the lack of deep ground disturbance, the survival of any previously unrecorded heritage assets within in the site is considered to be moderate.

Further investigations:

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

Significance:

Unknown.

Aerial Photographs & Lidar Summary:

Twenty-first-century aerial photographs show the site as rough grass or scrub, with housing having been built to the north and west of the site between 1991 and 2002, leaving the site as a small field surrounded by housing.



There is no Lidar coverage for the site.

Photograph references:

Google Earth coverage 2002, 2008 & 2009.

SMR Record/event Reference ID

Name Details Site? Buffer?

01886/01 Bronze Age Arrowhead, Thorne Moorends

Bronze age barbed and tanged arrowhead findspot. Y

SMR Historic Environment Characterisation Reference ID


HSY4664 Moorends commercial core, Thorne Moorends, Doncaster

Modern Commercial Core-Suburban

Y Y

HSY4417 Dikes Marsh and Moorends warped lands, Thorne, Doncaster

Industrial to Modern Drained Wetland

Y

HSY4656 Moorends Village, Doncaster Modern Planned Estate (Social Housing)

Y

HSY4665 Darlington Grove, East Gate and Belvedere, Moorends, Doncaster

Modern Planned Estate (Social Housing)

Y

HSY4666 Bloomhill Court, Moorends, Doncaster Modern Private Housing Estate Y


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Allocation Reference: 503 Allocation Type: Housing Site Name: East View Farm, Marshland Rd, Moorends






Summary

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



Allocation Reference: 503 Allocation Type: Housing Site Name: East View Farm, Marshland Rd, Moorends



The SMR does not record any monuments or findspots within the site. One findspot of a Bronze Age flint arrowhead is recorded within the southern part of the buffer zone.

No listed buildings are recorded within the site. One grade II listed building, Micklethwaite Farmhouse, is recorded at the northeast edge of the buffer zone, but is screened from the site by existing housing.

The Magnesian Limestone in South and West Yorkshire Aerial Photographic Mapping Project records post-medieval ridge and furrow in the northwest part of the buffer zone.

The Historic Environment Characterisation records the present character of the site as Drained Wetland and Planned Estate (Social Housing). The landscape character within the majority of the site is defined as land enclosed and drained as part of the Parliamentary Enclosure Award of 1825, with changes to boundaries and drainage between 1851 and 1891 in association with the construction of a new warping system. There is fragmentary visibility of previous landscape types in this area. The house at the eastern side of the site is part of a model village built in the 1920s to house workers from the nearby colliery.

Within the buffer, additional landscape character types include part of the Thorne Cables enclosed and drained land, also enclosed in 1825, with many of the narrow fields having been agglomerated in the late 20th century in association with the intensification of arable production. This has led to only partial legibility of the Parliamentary Enclosure fields. The remainder of the landscape character within the buffer comprises 20th-century housing development, with no legibility of previous character types.

The site has been in agricultural use since at least 1841 and mainly remains undeveloped land at the present day, with a house built at the eastern side of the site by 1932 as part of the Moorends colliery village.


The site was shown as part of a field on the 1825 Thorne, Hatfield and Fishlake enclosure map. No changes were depicted on the 1841 and 1854 Ordnance Survey maps. The construction of the Doncaster to Hull branch of the North Eastern Railway had created the site’s western boundary prior to 1892. A square pond and areas of marsh or waterlogged ground were shown in the western part of the site at that date. No.2 Marshland Road had been constructed in the eastern part of the site by 1932, when a number of outbuildings were shown in the field to the west. These had been cleared by 1962, when further outbuildings and a barn were shown to the west of the house.

Within the buffer zone, Marshland Road, North Common Road, Marsh Drain, North Common Drain were shown on the 1825 enclosure map, with Micklethwaite’s Farm and Grange Farm shown on the 1841 OS map. Buildings were shown to the south of the site in 1854, while the Doncaster to Hull branch of the North Eastern Railway had been built along the western site boundary by 1892. A public house and a depot were shown within the buffer zone in 1906, while houses had been built to the east of the site by 1932 and to the south by 1948. Further houses were constructed in the latter area during the 1980s.

Survival:

A pond was shown within the western part of the site in 1892 and a house was constructed at the eastern side by 1932. Both of these factors are likely to have caused some truncation of sub-surface deposits. Within the remainder of the site, the potential for the survival of unrecorded buried archaeology is considered to be moderate.





Significance:

Unknown.


Twenty-first-century aerial photographs show no.2 Marshland Road and its outbuildings, with the remainder of the site as rough grassland. There is no Lidar coverage for the site.


Google Earth coverage, 2002, 2008 & 2009.

Statutory Designations Reference ID

Name Designation/ Grade

Site? Buffer?

1193126 Micklethwaite Farmouse II Y



01886/01 Bronze Age Arrowhead, Thorne Moorends

Bronze age barbed and tanged arrowhead from findspot. Y




Drained Wetland Y Y

HSY4656 Moorends Village, Doncaster Planned Estate (Social Housing) Y Y

HSY4395 Thorne Cables (Agglomerated section), Thorne, Doncaster

Drained Wetland Y

HSY4658 Moss Terrace, Thorne Moorends, Doncaster Terraced Housing Y

HSY4664 Moorends commercial core, Thorne Moorends, Doncaster

Commercial Core-Suburban Y

HSY4665 Darlington Grove, East Gate and Belvedere, Moorends, Doncaster

Planned Estate (Social Housing) Y

HSY4666 Bloomhill Court, Moorends, Doncaster Private Housing Estate Y



Allocation Reference: 505

Allocation Type: Housing

Site Name: South End Marina and adj. land, Thorne

Area (Ha): 5.25

NGR (centre): SE 6906 1225

Settlement: Thorne Moorends





Summary

Within site Within buffer zone

Scheduled Monument - -

Listed Building - -

SMR record/event - -

Cropmark/Lidar evidence No Yes

Cartographic features of interest No No

Estimated sub-surface disturbance Partial n/a





Site Name: South End Marina and adj. Land, Thorne

Area (Ha): 5.25



Site assessment

Known assets/character:

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

No Scheduled Monuments or listed buildings are recorded within the site or the buffer zone.

The Magnesian Limestone in South and West Yorkshire Aerial Photographic Mapping Project recorded post-

medieval ridge and furrow within the buffer zone, much of it in areas since built over.

The Historic Environment Characterisation records the present character of the site as drained wetland to the

west, and South End Marina to the east. The site had been enclosed and was in agricultural use by 1639. The

landscape area which includes the site is an area which appears to relate closely to the landscape depicted on the

1639 Arlebot map of the 'Level of Hatfield Chase', which shows this area following the drainage works of

Vermuyden. There is no legibility of the earlier hunting park.

Character zones within the buffer comprises a variety of modern housing with no legibility of the earlier surveyed

enclosure of open fields. To the immediate northeast of the site is the South End characterisation area, which is

located to the south of the main historic core area of Thorne. The majority of plots within this area are probably

of post-medieval origin and the area was urbanised and enclosed in advance of the 1825 enclosure. The area is

likely to contain significant elements of historic form and character dating to the early 19th century or earlier

despite a certain amount of 20th-century infilling.

The site includes a canal boat marina and car park at the eastern side and small fields in rough grass coverage to

the west. It is located immediately to the south of the South Yorkshire Railway line, which opened in 1859. The

site is bounded to the south and west by the Stainforth and Keadby Canal, which was opened in 1802, and to the

east by South End road.


The 1853 OS map shows the site as an arrangement of enclosed fields, bounded by the main railway line to the

north and the canal to the south. Wike End Road denotes the eastern site boundary, which is later re-named to

South End. By 1892, the site appears to have been separated into more fields, with the addition of Boating Dike,

which runs northwest to southeast, centrally through the site. This dike may be present on the 1854 map,

although it is unclear. By 1892 mooring posts are present at the southern end of the site, by the canal, and a

building had also been constructed on the south of the site, with a track connecting it to Wike End Road. By 1974,

this building is labelled The Orchards. In 1932, a hachured area appears at the northern end of the site, by the

railway track, indicating an excavated area, although it is not clear exactly what this relates to. By 1962, Wike End

Road had been renamed South End. By 1984, the marina had been constructed in the southern area of the site, in

the place of the building that had been named The Orchards. By 1989, a building had been constructed to the

north of the marine, off South End. There are no other buildings on the site, but 21st-century Google Earth

images show that the area to the north of the marina is used as a boat storage area. A pond has been constructed

in the north-western corner of the site by 1984, although this since appears to have been infilled.

Within the buffer, a single railway track was present, just outside of the site boundary in 1853. This is labelled as

the South Yorkshire Railway line and terminated at a weighing machine. By 1932, a crane was present next to the

main railway line. These features remained extant in 1962 but had gone by 1976. The area to the north of the site

was becoming well-developed by 1892, with a number of new structures off Ellison Street, which gradually

continued and was heavily populated with houses by 1974. The area to the west of the site was also developed

with modern housing by 1984. By 1984, a water tower was present immediately to the north of the site, with a

builder’s yard next to it by 1989.



Survival:

Although the construction of South End Marina is likely to have caused substantial disturbance to sub-surface

deposits in the eastern part of the site, the remaining area, forming the majority of the site, is relatively

undisturbed. As such, the potential for unrecorded buried archaeology to survive outside the footprint of the

marina is considered to be moderate. These areas may have had some disturbance caused by railway and canal

infrastructure.


Further archaeological investigation may be required if this site is brought forward for development.

Significance:

Unknown.

Aerial Photographs & Lidar

Summary:

Twenty-first century aerial photographs show the site as an area of rough grassland or scrub to the west, with

South End Marina and modern housing to the east. There is no Lidar coverage for this area.



RAF/541/31 3425 18-May-1948.

SMR Historic Environment Characterisation

Reference

ID


HSY4440 Hatfield Chase - High and Low Levels,

Doncaster

Drained Wetland Y Y

HSY5634 Marina, South End, Thorne, Doncaster Canal or River Wharf Y Y

HSY4676 Ash Tree, Elm Tree and Chestnut Avenues,

Thorne, Doncaster

Semi-Detached Housing Y

HSY4677 South Common Estate, Thorne, Doncaster Planned Estate (Social Housing) Y

HSY4678 Thorne South Field Estate, Doncaster Planned Estate (Social Housing) Y

HSY4683 Housing west of Hatfield Road, Thorne,

Doncaster

Private Housing Estate Y

HSY5619 Southfield Road, Thorne, Doncaster Villas/ Detached Housing Y

HSY5633 South End, Thorne, Doncaster Private Housing Estate Y

HSY5636 South End, Thorne, Doncaster Vernacular Cottages Y

HSY5637 West Street / Park Crescent infill, Thorne,

Doncaster




Allocation Reference: 508 Allocation Type: Housing Site Name: Land off Marshlands Rd/The Avenue




Historic landscape significance Uncertain


Summary

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



Allocation Reference: 508 Allocation Type: Housing Site Name: Land off Marshlands Rd/The Avenue



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

There are no listed buildings within the site. One grade II listed building, Micklethwaite Farmhouse, is recorded in the buffer zone. The proximity of this structure to the site suggests that development could impact on the setting of the building.

The Magnesian Limestone in South and West Yorkshire Aerial Photographic Mapping Project records post-medieval ridge and furrow remains in the western part of the buffer zone.

The Historic Environment Characterisation records the present character of the site as Drained Wetland, enclosed and drained as part of the Parliamentary Enclosure Award of 1825, with changes to boundaries and drainage between 1851 and 1891 in association with the construction of a new warping system. There is fragmentary visibility of previous landscape types in this area.

Within the buffer, additional landscape character types include part of the Thorne Cables, also enclosed and drained as part of the parliamentary enclosure award, with many of the narrow fields having been agglomerated in the late 20th century in association with the intensification of arable production. The remainder of the landscape character within the buffer comprises 20th-century housing development, with no legibility of previous character types. This includes part of Moorends model village built in the 1920s to house workers from the nearby colliery and a private housing estate.

The site has been in agricultural use since at least 1841 and the majority remains undeveloped to the present day, though stables or sheds have been constructed at the eastern side, possibly associated with Micklethwaite Farm.


The site was shown as part of a field on the 1841 Ordnance Survey map. The site may have formed part of a large paddock by 1854, as it stood between Micklethwaite Farm and a series of farm buildings to the north. No change was shown within the site after the construction of the Doncaster to Hull branch of the North Eastern Railway, which formed the northern boundary on the 1892 OS map. The southern site boundary had been formed by 1932, with the construction of houses along The Avenue.

Within the buffer zone, Marshland Road, Chadwick Dike and Micklethwaite’s Farm were shown on the 1841 OS map. The access road to the farm followed the alignment of the present-day The Avenue. Grange Farm and a series of narrow linear fields marked as ‘Ickles Moor’ were shown on the 1854 OS map. The Doncaster to Hull branch of the North Eastern Railway crossed the buffer zone by 1892 and two houses had been built to the north of the site by 1906. The Avenue, a depot and several housing developments had been constructed within the buffer zone by 1932. Allotments were shown on the north side of the railway line during the 1970s.

Survival:

Due to the lack of deep ground disturbance, the potential for the survival of any previously unrecorded buried archaeology is considered to be moderate.


Further archaeological investigation is likely to be required if the site is brought forward for development. This should include a consideration of the setting of the grade II listed Micklethwaite Farmhouse.

Significance:

Unknown.




Twenty-first-century aerial photographs show the majority of the site as rough grassland, with the exception of the eastern area, which contained a paddock and stables. There is no Lidar coverage of the site.





Site? Buffer?

1193126 Micklethwaite Farmhouse II Y




Industrial to Modern Drained Wetland

Y Y

HSY4395 Thorne Cables (Agglomerated section), Thorne, Doncaster

Modern Drained Wetland Y

HSY4656 Moorends Village, Doncaster Modern Planned Estate (Social Housing)

Y

HSY4658 Moss Terrace, Thorne Moorends, Doncaster Modern Terraced Housing Y

HSY4666 Bloomhill Court, Moorends, Doncaster Modern Private Housing Estate Y





Site Name: Adjacent Thorne South Station, off South End Rd

Area (Ha): 0.89




Archaeological significance of site Negligible


Suitability of site for allocation No archaeological constraint

Summary



Listed Building - -



Cartographic features of interest Yes Yes

Estimated sub-surface disturbance Extensive n/a





Site Name: Adjacent Thorne South Station, off South End Rd

Area (Ha): 0.89



Site assessment


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

There are no Scheduled Monuments or listed buildings within the site or the buffer zone.


medieval ridge and furrow within the buffer zone, some in areas that have since been built over.

The Historic Environment Characterisation records the present character of the site as part of areas of Modern

Planned Estate (Social Housing) and Industrial to Modern Vernacular Cottages, with no legibility of former

landscape types. Other character zones within the buffer include drained wetland enclosed from Hatfield Chase

from the post-medieval period onwards, the canal, and modern private and social housing estates.

The site is currently an area of rough scrub vegetation to the north of the South Yorkshire Railway line, which

opened in 1859.


Josias Arelbout’s 1639 map of Hatfield Chase showed the site within a series of enclosed fields. No features were

shown within the site at that date. Thomas Jefferys’ 1771 map of Yorkshire marked a small area of development

in the vicinity of the site, but later mapping suggests this was part of the ribbon development along South End

Road, to the northwest of the site. The 1853 OS map depicted Thorne Station on the South Yorkshire Railway line

within the southern edge of the site, with Love Lane running on an east-west alignment through the centre of the

site, and a narrow enclosure at the northern edge. The 1892 map showed hachures along the northern edge of

this enclosure indicating lower ground, possibly excavated to provide material for the railway embankment. The

station was still shown at this date, with Love Lane forming a slightly embanked lane terminating at the eastern

end of the site, and continuing to the east as a footpath only. By 1976, no station structures were shown within

the south edge of the site. There were no further major changes shown by 1989.

Within the buffer zone, a track immediately to the south of the site was shown on the 1771 Jefferys map, while

the Stainforth and Keadby Canal was opened in 1802. Miller Lane led to Oldfield’s Mill, a corn mill to the north of

the site, in 1854 but the mill itself was no longer shown by 1892. A public house stood on the site of the present-

day Victoria by 1854, while the Thorne to Keadby extension of the South Yorkshire Railway ran along the

southern edge of the site. An orchard was shown to the north-west of the site between 1892 and 1948 but had

gone by 1956. Housing had been constructed to the north-east by 1962 and to the north by 1976. By 1989, the

Thorne South Station platforms had been moved to the east of the site.

Survival:

Historic mapping suggests that the ground within the site is likely to have suffered extensive ground disturbance

associated with the construction of the station and railway embankment. The potential for the survival of

unrecorded buried archaeological remains is considered to be low.


No further archaeological investigation is likely to be required if this site is brought forward for development.

Significance:

Negligible.




Summary:

Twenty-first century aerial photographs show the site as an area of rough grassland or scrub. There is no Lidar

coverage for this area.



RAF/541/31 3425 18-May-1948/ RAF/541/31 3425 18-May-1948.


Reference

ID


HSY4678 Thorne South Field Estate, Doncaster Modern Planned Estate (Social

Housing).

Y Y

HSY5636 South End, Thorne, Doncaster Industrial to Modern Vernacular

Cottages.

Y Y


Doncaster

Post-medieval to Modern Drained

Wetland.

Y

HSY4676 Ash Tree, Elm Tree and Chestnut Avenues,

Thorne, Doncaster

Modern Semi-Detached Housing. Y

HSY4677 South Common Estate, Thorne, Doncaster Modern Planned Estate (Social

Housing).

Y

HSY5619 Southfield Road, Thorne, Doncaster Modern Villas/ Detached Housing. Y

HSY5633 South End, Thorne, Doncaster Modern Private Housing Estate. Y

HSY5634 Marina, South End, Thorne, Doncaster Modern Canal or River Wharf. Y

HSY5637 West Street / Park Crescent infill, Thorne,

Doncaster

Modern Private Housing Estate. Y



Allocation Reference: 512 Allocation Type: Housing Site Name: Red House Lane (b) North East, Adwick

Area (Ha): 13.26 NGR (centre): SE 5352 0917 Settlement: Adwick le Street/Woodlands


Archaeological significance of site Regional


Suitability of site for allocation Major archaeological constraint

Summary

Within site Within buffer zone Scheduled Monument - - Listed Building - - SMR record/event 3 records 2 records/1 event Cropmark/Lidar evidence Yes Yes Cartographic features of interest No Yes Estimated sub-surface disturbance Low n/a



Allocation Reference: 512 Allocation Type: Housing Site Name: Red House Lane (b) North East, Adwick



The SMR records three monuments within the site: all associated with cropmarks showing a prehistoric ring ditch (possibly a barrow of late Neolithic to Bronze Age date) and a trackway, field system and possible settlement enclosure of probable Iron Age to Roman date. The area of possible settlement and field system continues into the buffer zone, where a further ring ditch is also recorded. One event within the buffer comprised a geophysical survey at Redhouse Park, which identified a probable boundary ditch.


The Magnesian Limestone in South and West Yorkshire Aerial Photographic Mapping Project recorded Iron Age-Roman ditches, trackways and enclosures, ring ditches of possibly earlier prehistoric date and levelled ridge and furrow within both the site and the buffer zone.

The Historic Environment Characterisation records the present character of the site as Strip Fields and Commons and Greens. These comprise enclosed strips within a likely former common field, which are set at right angles to Red House Lane. There has been major boundary loss and the remaining pattern gives the impression of surveyed enclosure. Character zones within the buffer are defined as Piecemeal Enclosure, Commons and Greens, Cemetery, Surveyed Enclosure (Parliamentary/Private), Warehousing, Private Housing Estate, Planned Estate (Social Housing), Villas/ Detached Housing and Water Powered Site.


The site was shown as fields on the 1851 OS map. Several of the field boundaries had been removed by 1955, with others shown as drains on the 1961 OS map. No further changes were shown within the site on OS maps produced up to 1982.

Various features were marked within the buffer zone on the 1851 OS map including fields, Mill Dyke, Skellow Ings, the Great Northern and Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway line, Adwick Junction, Ea Dyke and Old Ea Bridge. A cemetery was shown within the buffer on the 1955 OS map, with part of the Bullcroft Colliery spoilheap and substantial embankments along the new course of the Ea Beck by 1961. Housing had been built in the southern part of the buffer zone by 1982.

Survival:

The site has been fields since at least the early 19th century. Given the lack of deep ground disturbance and the presence of known cropmark features within the site, the potential for the survival of buried archaeological remains is considered to be high.


Given the evidence for extensive buried archaeological remains on this site, further consideration of the impact on these would be required to establish whether there was capacity for housing on this site.

Significance:

The presence of a prehistoric ring ditch and a possible Iron Age to Roman settlement enclosure and field systems among the cropmark features suggests that well-preserved buried remains within the site could be considered to be of Regional archaeological significance. The slight ridge and furrow could be considered to be of Local significance.




Twenty-first-century aerial photographs show the site as arable fields. Lidar data shows a linear earthwork running across the northern part of the site on a northwest to southeast alignment. For part of its route, this is visible as a hollow running parallel with one of the cropmark ditches. The feature is also visible as a soil mark on recent aerial photography, and it is possible that it is a culverted drainage feature or pipeline, but an earlier origin cannot be ruled out on the basis of available evidence. Within the western field, very faint sinuous ridges correspond with the ridge and furrow remains recorded on the cropmark evidence.


Google Earth: 2002, 2003, 2008 & 2009. Bing Maps: 2015. Lidar data file SE5309.



00060/01 Prehistoric tor Romano-British Circular Ditch, Field System and Trackway, Adwick Le Street

A large circular ditch, possibly a barrow ditch? In the same area is a probable trackway with a field system attached to the track.

Y

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

Apparently coherent remains of a dispersed settlement and associated agricultural features, to the east of the 'Roman Ridge' Roman road.

Y Y

05641 Probable later prehistoric ring ditch, Adwick-le-Street, Doncaster

Aerial photography identified a ring ditch of approximate diameter 27m. A similar [PIN05642] feature lies c300m to the northeast.

Y


Aerial photography identified a ring ditch of approximate diameter 37m. A similar feature [PIN 5641] lies c300m to the southwest.

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.

Y



HSY244 Size Ing and Skellow Ing Commons and greens Y Y

HSY245 Fields north of Red House Lane Adwick Le Street

Strip Fields Y Y

HSY117 Former Bullcroft Colliery site Piecemeal Enclosure Y

HSY246 Red House Lane Cemetery, Adwick le Street Cemetery Y

HSY253 Ings, Carcroft Surveyed Enclosure (Parliamentary/ Private)

Y

HSY4154 Redhouse Interchange, Brodsworth, Doncaster Warehousing Y

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



HSY4911 Bosworth Road and Whinfell Close, Adwick le Street, Doncaster


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

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

Villas/ Detached Housing Y

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



Allocation Reference: 513 Allocation Type: Housing Site Name: Redhouse Lane (c) South, Adwick






Summary

Within site Within buffer zone Scheduled Monument - - Listed Building - - SMR record/event 3 records/2 events 2 records/11 events Cropmark/Lidar evidence Yes Yes Cartographic features of interest No No Estimated sub-surface disturbance Low n/a



Allocation Reference: 513 Allocation Type: Housing Site Name: Redhouse Lane (c) South, Adwick



The SMR records two monuments and one event within the site. One of the monuments comprises extensive cropmarks associated with prehistoric to Roman activity, including a possible Bronze Age barrow and Iron Age to Roman field system and enclosures. The other monument and the event relate to a late 9th-century AD female inhumation discovered in the southern part of the site in 2001. This was a typical Scandinavian-type burial of the period. A Romano-British cemetery has been recorded within the buffer zone, approximately 0.07km from the southern site boundary, suggesting the possible Viking burial may have formed part of a more widely dispersed group of burials associated with post-Roman occupation in the area. An early medieval inhumation cemetery was also discovered immediately to the southeast of the buffer zone, approximately 0.35km from the southern site boundary.

The cropmark features extend into the buffer, including a further possible barrow site. Eleven events have been recorded within the buffer, most to the west of the site where evaluation and mitigation excavations and watching briefs have been undertaken on Iron Age to Roman settlement and field system remains adjacent to the Roman Ridge road, probably a major route linking York and Lincoln.


The Magnesian Limestone in South and West Yorkshire Aerial Photographic Mapping Project recorded extensive field systems, double-ditched trackways and two ring ditches within the site and the buffer zone.

The Historic Environment Characterisation records the present character of the site as part of an area of Modern Warehousing, although it is actually a field. Further character zones within the buffer comprise an area of strip fields probably enclosed from medieval open field; modern housing estates and a cemetery, as well as modern motorway and trunk road junctions.

The site is currently a large triangular field in arable use, with the northern boundary formed by Red House Lane and the southern boundary by the Great North Road. The eastern boundary is formed by modern housing estates.


No features were shown within the site on Thomas Jefferys’ 1771 map of Yorkshire or the 1841 Ordnance Survey map. The 1851 OS map showed the site as a series of narrow fields with regular boundaries suggestive of surveyed enclosure, possibly from a former open field. Its present-day southeast edge perimeter follows the alignment of two of the mid-19th-century field boundaries. While no further change had occurred within the site by 1955, the field boundaries had been removed by 1966.

Within the buffer zone, the Great North Road and Red House Lane were shown to the south and north of the site (respectively) on the 1841 OS map. A small limestone quarry was shown to the west of the Great North Road in 1854 but was disused by 1892. Houses had been constructed in the western part of the buffer zone by 1948, with further developments to the southwest by 1955. A cemetery had been established on the north side of Red House Lane by that date, while a public house was shown to the south of the site in 1961. Extensive housing development took place to the south and southeast of the site between 1971 and 1990.

Survival:

The site has been in arable cultivation during the 20th century and probably earlier, which may have affected the preservation of sub-surface remains through truncation. The extent of cropmark features across the site and the presence of a Viking burial found in excavations along the southwest side of the site suggest that the potential for the survival of buried features below the zone affected by ploughing is high.




Given the evidence for extensive buried archaeological remains on this site, further consideration of the impact on these would be required to establish whether there was capacity for housing on this site.

Significance:

Features associated with the possible prehistoric burial mound and Iron Age to Roman dispersed settlement and field systems could be considered to be of Regional significance, depending on their extent, nature and condition. Any further burials associated with the Viking inhumation found in the southern part of the site, or the Romano-British burials further to the south are also likely to be considered to be of at least Regional significance.


The 2002-2015 aerial photography shows the site as a single large field under arable cultivation. None of the photographs were taken at a suitable stage of cultivation for cropmarks to be visible. Lidar data shows slight, even parallel ridges running northeast to southwest across the site. The regularity of these features within the site suggests they relate to modern ploughing rather than ridge and furrow cultivation remains, as no evidence for former field boundaries or different plot alignments is visible.


Google Earth coverage 2002, 2003, 2008, 2009 & 2015. Lidar data files SE5208, SE5209, SE5308 & SE5309.

RAF/543/9F22 0082 19-Jun-1957; SE5309/6 JAP 1382/1 30-Jul-1971; ULM BTX 057 05-Jul-1975; SE5308/9 DNR 1564/21 02-Aug-1979; OS/90184 0045 18-Jul-1990.



00656/01 Romano-British Inhumation Cemetery and Possible Settlement, Adwick-le-Street

Romano-British Inhumation Cemetery and possible settlement.

Y

02691/01 Iron Age or Romano-British Unclassified Cropmark, Adwick-le-Street

Two double-ditched trackways, aligned east-west and north-south, and associated field boundaries, visible as cropmarks. They are clearly associated with the trackways visible to the north of Red House Lane. Visible as cropmarks and plotted by the Magnesian Limestone AP mapping project.

Y Y

4754 Viking Burial of a Woman, Adwick Le Street

Viking age female burial identified during a sewer pipe watching brief.

Y


Aerial photography identified a ring ditch of approximate diameter 27m. A similar [PIN05642] feature lies c300m to the northeast.

Y

ESY337 Adwick Le Street In September and October 1996 an archaeological evaluation was undertaken. The treches were positioned above features previous identified from a geophysical survey. A number of enclosures were located and investigated.

Y

ESY338 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 Redhouse Park March 1999 a geophysical survey was undertaken at Redhouses Park. The results located one anomaly indicative of an archaeological ditch.

Y

ESY340 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

ESY341 Redhouse Farm In May and September 2000 a late Iron Age enclosure and length of Roman road was excavated. The occupation of the Iron Age enclosure spanned the Roman conquest.

Y

ESY342 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

ESY497 Murco Service Station, Lutterworth Drive

In January 2001 a watching brief was conducted at the Murco Service Station off Lutterworth Drive. Although Roman pottery and human remains were recovered during archaeological investigation before the construction of the surrounding housing estate, no significant archaeological features or remains were located.

Y

ESY1143 Spine Road, Adwick Le Street

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

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.

ESY1419 Watching brief at 29 Northlands, Lutterworth Drive, Doncaster

Watching brief during groundworks for the construction of a new house and garage. No archaeological remains were encountered.

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 at Red House, Adwick-le-Street. 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

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

Excavations in early 2001 were undertaken in association with the construction of a sewer main. A Romano-British or Iron Age field system, enclosure and trackway previously identified by geophysical survey were investigated. Cutting through a ditch defining the trackway, an inhumation of 9th-10th century date was recorded. This was of a woman of age 33-45, of likely Scandinavian origin. Grave goods included brooches and a copper alloy bowl.

Y Y





HSY4154 Redhouse Interchange, Brodsworth, Doncaster Warehousing Y Y

HSY226 Red House Interchange Motorway and Trunk Road Junctions

Y

HSY245 Fields north of Red House Lane Adwick Le Street

Strip Fields Y

HSY246 Red House Lane Cemetery, Adwick le Street Cemetery Y

HSY4905 Woodlands (north), Adwick upon Street, Doncaster


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

HSY4911 Bosworth Road and Whinfell Close, Adwick le Street, Doncaster


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




Allocation Type: Employment

Site Name: Safeguarded Cargo Area, Robin Hood Airport

Area (Ha): 44.05

NGR (centre): SK 6542 9716

Settlement: Finningley





Summary



Listed Building - -

SMR record/event 1 4

Cropmark/Lidar evidence Yes Yes

Cartographic features of interest Yes Yes

Estimated sub-surface disturbance Partial n/a





Site Name: Safeguarded Cargo Area, Robin Hood Airport

Area (Ha): 44.05

NGR (centre): SK 6542 9716

Settlement: Finningley

Site assessment


The SMR records one monument within the site, unclassified cropmarks of possible Iron Age to Roman date. Four

monuments are recorded within the buffer zone; an area of extensive cropmark enclosures and field boundaries

of probable Iron Age to Roman date, to the immediate west of the site, and further unclassified cropmarks to the

north and south of the site. The other monument is the possible site of a Roman camp or a medieval moated site,

now lost to quarrying.


Previous desk-based assessment has recorded extensive cropmarks within the site and the buffer zone, forming a

coherent landscape of brickwork-pattern fields, trackways and enclosures, some of which may be associated with

settlement. These are considered to be of regional significance.

Historic Environment Characterisation has recorded the present character of the site as Piecemeal Enclosure and

Agglomerated Fields. At the southern end of the site, the agglomerated fields were created through the loss of

field boundaries in the 20th century, with only fragmentary legibility of the former Parliamentary Enclosure

landscape created in 1767. At the northern end of the site, is an area of fields which formed part of the estate of

Finningley Park Hall, though this character has been lost following gravel extraction and reinstatement.

The majority of the buffer zone currently comprises agglomerated fields and part of Robin Hood Airport. The

northern part of the site had been emparked as part of the estate of Finningley Grange or Hall during the

medieval period and has lost much of this character in the 20th century.

The site is currently predominantly fields, used as arable land.


Thomas Jefferys’ 1771 map of Yorkshire depicted the northern part of the site within Finningley Park, the estate

of the medieval Finningley Grange or Hall. Jefferys depicted the southern part of the site as open land in 1771.

The northern part of the site stood within the ‘Pale Park’ on the 1841 Ordnance Survey map. This is likely to have

been the area within the ‘pale’ or boundary that had demarcated the park’s medieval perimeter. The grange or

hall, an observatory and an ice house were marked in this part of the site in 1841, while the southern part of the

site contained a substantial track leading from the Park to Common Lane, along with field boundaries along the

site’s present-day southeast perimeter. A drain named ‘Rake Dale’ demarcated the fields from the Park in 1854.

Part of the site of a ‘camp’ extended into the northwest part of the site. This feature was identified as a ‘Roman

Camp’ on the 1892 OS map. A disused gravel pit was marked in the woods to the south of the hall by that date,

while Spink Hall had been constructed in the fields to the south of the Park. While little change had occurred

within the site by 1956, Finningley Hall had been demolished by 1962. The trees within the Park had been

removed by that date, while large disused sand and gravel pits occupied the site of the Roman camp. A single

building stood on a sub-circular embankment in the east of the site in 1962, of unknown function but possibly

associated with the airbase. Spink Hall continued to be shown in the southern part of the site in 1968 but had

been demolished by 1985.

Within the buffer zone, Common Lane was shown to the south of the site on Jefferys’ 1771 map, with Partridge

Hill Farm, High Common Plantation and Park Farm shown in 1841. Little change had taken place within the buffer

zone by 1948, although sand and gravel extraction had taken place in the eastern part of the buffer area by 1956.

Large-scale sand and gravel extraction had taken place by 1961, while RAF Finningley had also extended into the

eastern part of the buffer zone by that date. Robin Hood Airport had been constructed by 2005.

Survival:

Due to the lack of deep ground disturbance in the majority of the site, the potential for the survival of buried

archaeological remains associated with the complex of Iron Age to Romano-British fields and settlement recorded

as cropmarks within the site is considered to be high. The likely survival of sub-surface foundations and possible



basement levels associated with Finningley Hall is also considered to be high.


Further archaeological investigation will be required if the site is allocated for development.

Significance:

The recorded Iron Age to Romano-British cropmarks within the site are part of a wider landscape of such

features, and are considered to be of regional significance. Remains associated with Finningley Hall could be

considered to be of local significance.


Summary:

Twenty-first century aerial photographs show the majority of the site in arable use, with small areas of wood and

grass at the north. No obvious cropmark features are visible, other than some dark patches which appear to be of

geological origin. Lidar data shows possible geological undulations in the southern part of the site, as well as

slight field boundaries and a drainage ditch, shown on historic mapping. A slight earthwork is shown in the area

of a former structure shown on a mound in 1962 in the central part of the site.

Photograph references: Google Earth Coverage 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009 & 2012. Lidar data files

SK6596, SK6597.

SMR Record/event

Reference

ID


00465/01 Possible moated

site, near

Finningley

A possible moated site, thought to have been destroyed by

sand and gravel extraction in the 19th century. The site may

actually be that of a Roman military site/camp - See PIN

00465/02

Y

00465/02 Possible Roman

enclosure and Road

near Finningley

Site of a possible Roman camp, it has been suggested that the

site could instead have been a medieval moat (see PIN

00465/01).

Y

01794/01 Iron Age to

Romano-British

Field Boundaries

and Possible

Settlement,

Austerfield

Traces of field boundaries, with a possible settlement site

(sub-rectangular enclosure) at SK (02) 643 976. Lying between

Mount Pleasant Hotel and Hammond's Elders, and continuing

eastwards as far as Finningley runways. Some Roman material

found. Iron Age or Romano-British cropmark complex shown

on aerial photographs

Y

02481/01 Iron Age or

Romano-British

Unclassified

Cropmarks,

Austerfield

Iron Age or Romano-British cropmark complex shown on aerial

photographs

Y


Romano-British

Unclassified

Cropmarks,

Austerfield

Iron Age or Romano-British unclassified cropmarks shown on

aerial photographs.

Y


Romano-British

Unclassified

Cropmarks,

Austerfield

Iron Age or Romano-British unclassified cropmarks shown on

aerial photographs.

Y




Reference

ID


HSY4492 Finningley Park hall (site of), Austerfield,

Doncaster

Modern Piecemeal Enclosure Y Y

HSY4477 High Common Lane, Austerfield, Doncaster Modern Agglomerated fields Y Y

HSY4597 Finningley Hall Park, Austerfield, Doncaster Modern Piecemeal Enclosure Y Y

HSY4644 Doncaster Sheffield Airport, Finningley,

Doncaster

Modern Airport Y

HSY4480 High Common Lane (south), Austerfield,

Doncaster

Industrial to Modern Surveyed

Enclosure (Parliamentary/ Private)

Y

HSY4489 Finningley Big Wood, Finningley, Doncaster Modern Ancient Woodland Y

HSY4643 Old Park, Finningley, Doncaster Modern Airport Y



Allocation Reference: 518 Allocation Type: Employment Site Name: MRO Area, Robin Hood Airport

Area (Ha): 31.25 NGR (centre): SK 6626 9677 Settlement: Finningley





Summary

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



Allocation Reference: 518 Allocation Type: Employment Site Name: MRO Area, Robin Hood Airport

Area (Ha): 31.25 NGR (centre): SK 6626 9677 Settlement: Finningley


The SMR does not record any monuments or events within the site. One monument is recorded within the buffer zone, the approximate location of Brancroft Airfield.


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 as agglomerated fields, created through boundary loss in the 20th century with only fragmentary legibility of the former Parliamentary Enclosure fields created in 1767. The landscape character within the buffer comprises a mixture of further agglomerated fields, plantations, surveyed enclosures, mineral extraction and processing and parts of the Robin Hood Airport.

The site currently comprises a parcel of land with several internal field boundaries, intersected by a north to south aligned road. The site is bounded on the eastern side by the A614; on the western side by Robin Hood Airport; on the southern side by High Common Lane and on the northern side by a field boundary.


In 1854 the site covered number of fields. The current north-south road which runs throughout the site was shown at this time. The road on the southern boundary of the site is labelled Cross Lane, and an Old Gravel Pit is labelled in the south-western corner of the site. At the very western end of the site is High Common Plantation, which extends into the buffer zone, and a small part of Pale Park, which also extends into the buffer. The northern site boundary was extant at this time as a field boundary associated with Brancroft Farm. By 1894 High Common Plantation had been renamed Lady Galway’s Plantation, and extended to the east slightly. By 1962 the A614 had been created, which forms the eastern site boundary. The western site boundary had also been created by this time, by the edge of Finningley Airfield. Some of the field boundaries at the southern end of the site had been removed by this time, and all of the field boundaries within the northern half of the site had been removed by 1985. The site remained unchanged on the 1992 map.

To the north, east and south of the buffer, the area mostly comprised fields in 1854. To the west was Pale Park. Immediately outside the eastern site boundary at the southern end were a pump and a well. Two structures were present at the northern end of the eastern side of the buffer zone, labelled Brancroft and New Park. By 1892 Dyon’s Gate was present just outside the north-western corner of the site. By 1930 the Austerfield Pumping Station had been built to the south of the site, off Cross Lane. The 1956 map showed a sand and gravel pit to the southeast of the site and by 1962 Finningley Airfield had been created to the west of the site. Many of the field boundaries within the buffer zone had been removed by 1968 and by 1985 a golf course had been established to the southeast of the site.

Survival:

With the exception of the new A614 road which was constructed along the eastern side of the site in 1962, little ground disturbance within the site has occurred. Cultivation may have truncated and below-ground deposits, and the potential for the survival of unrecorded buried archaeology below the plough zone is considered to be moderate.


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

Significance:

Unknown.




Twenty-first century aerial photographs show the site divided into a number of small parcels of land in 2002, which appear to be used for agricultural purposes. This has remained the case ever since, although the field boundaries shift over the years to form different shaped and sized fields within the site boundary.

Lidar data for the site contains some linear features, although these correspond to ploughing activity noted on modern aerial photographs, and are not thought to be archaeological in nature.


Google Earth images 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2012 & 2015. Lidar data file SK6696.



04347/01 Brancroft Airfield A modern airfield Y



HSY4477 High Common Lane, Austerfield, Doncaster Agglomerated fields Y Y

HSY4475 Cross Lane, Austerfield, Doncaster Golf Course Y

HSY4480 High Common Lane (south), Austerfield, Doncaster

Surveyed Enclosure (Parliamentary/ Private)

Y

HSY4481 Great wood/ Spen Close Plantation, Finningley/ Austerfield, Doncaster

Plantation Y

HSY4488 Brancroft, Austerfield, Doncaster Other Mineral Extraction & Processing

Y

HSY4515 High Field Lane, Austerfield, Doncaster Agglomerated fields Y

HSY4520 High Common Lane, Austerfield, Doncaster Other Mineral Extraction & Processing

Y

HSY4643 Old Park, Finningley, Doncaster Airport Y

HSY4644 Doncaster Sheffield Airport, Finningley, Doncaster

Airport Y



Allocation Reference: 520 Allocation Type: Employment Site Name: Quest Park 2, Wheatley Hall Road

Area (Ha): 0.97 NGR (centre): SE 5822 0494 Settlement: Doncaster Urban Area





Summary

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



Allocation Reference: 520 Allocation Type: Employment Site Name: Quest Park 2, Wheatley Hall Road



The SMR does not record any monuments or events within the site. One findspot is recorded within the buffer, a large quantity of Roman pottery recovered during construction of the International Harvester’s Factory a short distance to the southeast of the site.

No Scheduled Monuments or listed buildings are recorded within the site or buffer zone.

The Magnesian Limestone in South and West Yorkshire Aerial Photographic Mapping Project records ridge and furrow cultivation within the site and southern part of the buffer. These were visible as earthworks in 1956, though the area within the buffer has since been developed and any earthwork features within the site itself have been levelled.

Historic Environment Characterisation records the present character of the site and much of the buffer to the east and northeast as a factory complex associated with the chemical industry, developed by the Bemberg company in 1928-20, in a Germanic-Modern style of infilled steel and reinforced concrete frames rendered in white cement. The company produced 'artificial silk' or Rayon, and was converted to Nylon production in 1953. By the time of the closure of the factory in 1996, it had been occupied by ICI and DuPont. There is no legibility of former strips fields enclosed from open fields. The current style of buildings surrounding the site suggests that the factory complex has been completely demolished and the area is now modern retail park units. Further character zones within the buffer include drained wetland at Bentley Ings to the northwest, further industrial premises to the southwest and planned social housing to the southeast.

The site is currently rough grassland north of retail units, with hedgerows preserving partial former field boundaries. It is bounded to the north by the River Don New Cut.


The 1854 OS map shows the site as part of two narrow fields, with sinuous boundaries characteristic of the enclosure of strips from open field. A drainage ditch ran along the eastern boundary of the eastern field, and the River Don formed the northern boundary. The area was called Red Cliff Closes. A small shed was shown in the western field, to the south of the site area. It was not shown in 1892, but in 1906 the fields had been subdivided into four and a shed was shown, again south of the site. By 1939, these were again shown as part of two fields, and as one field in 1980, when the current site boundaries had been formed. The 1992 map again showed the division between the two fields, as an intermittent boundary.

Within the buffer, the 1854 map showed further fields, with Wheatley Lane shown to the south. Many of the fields had sheds, suggesting they may have been used as allotments or market gardens. Wheatley Park, ornamental parkland associated with Wheatley Hall, extended into the southeast edge of the buffer. The River Don and a substantial channel called the Flood Drain ran through the northwest part of the buffer, with the Great Northern Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire railway line running parallel to and northwest of the Flood Drain. The sheds were not shown on the 1894 OS map. In 1906, a building, possibly two semi-detached houses, was shown at the point where Wheatley Lane entered the park and become a footpath, and allotment gardens were shown in a field at the southwest edge of the buffer. By 1930, several more houses had been built along Wheatley Lane, but the buffer was still rural in character. It had changed dramatically by 1939, when Wheatley Hall Road had been widened and extended through the former park, and housing estates were shown to the south of the road. A large factory complex was shown to the east of the site, labelled 'Artificial Silk Factory'. It had a works railway that exited the factory along Churchill Road to the south of the site, joining the main line at Doncaster, and labelled the Wheatley Branch of the LNER in 1948. By 1956, further works buildings were under construction to the southwest of the site, extending up to the southwest site boundary by 1961, with a building shown as an oil refinery in 1974. The synthetic fibre factory had extended by 1974, with an associated electricity sub-station shown just to the east of the site.



Survival:

The site has been grassland during the 21st century, and may have been used for arable cultivation in the past. Some topsoil stripping occurred c.2008, though it is unclear how extensive this was. The potential for the survival of unrecorded buried archaeology within the site is moderate. A large quantity of Roman pottery found nearby suggests there is the potential for similar remains within the site. The proximity of the site to the River Don suggests there may be the potential for buried alluvial sequences that could contain palaeoenvironmental data.


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

Significance:

Unknown.

Note: Site 520 is mostly part of larger Site 735.


The 2002 aerial photograph shows the site as two fields covered in rough grass, with the central hedgerow boundary dividing the two fields still surviving and trees along the eastern edge. The synthetic fibre factory to the east had been demolished at that date, and the area to the southeast of the site was shown as a large tarmac-surfaced area. A works building stood to the southwest, possibly the oil refinery, though altered since 1992. By 2008, the area to the south of the site was shown as three retail units, probably car showrooms, surrounded by car parking areas, and the site itself had been at least partially stripped of vegetation and possibly topsoil, though the central hedge survived. New retail park buildings were shown on the former factory site. By 2015, grass had regenerated within the site.

The Lidar data shows the northeast, southwest and central field boundaries as hollows, indicating they may have been drainage ditches. No traces of ridge and furrow earthworks are shown on the Lidar image.


Google Earth coverage 2002, 2003, 2008, 2009 & 2015. Lidar data file SE5804 DTM 1m. OS/56T21 0043 13-Sep-1956.



01825/01 Roman and Romano-British Pottery Assemblage, Wheatley

Roman pottery -large quantity of Romano-British pottery recovered during constructions of International Harvester's Factory, Wheatley.

Y



HSY5179 Former British Bemberg / Du Pont Wheatley Hall Road, Wheatley, Doncaster

Chemical Y Y

HSY4425 Bentley Ings, Doncaster Drained Wetland Y

HSY5186 Radiance Road, Wheatley, Doncaster Other Industry Y

HSY5195 Harrowden Road, Wheatley, Doncaster Planned Estate (Social Housing) Y



Allocation Reference: 521 Allocation Type: Employment Site Name: Bankwood Lane 2, Rossington

Area (Ha): 17.32 NGR (centre): SK 6102 9893 Settlement: Rossington





Summary

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



Allocation Reference: 521 Allocation Type: Employment Site Name: Bankwood Lane 2, Rossington

Area (Ha): 17.32 NGR (centre): SK 6102 9893 Settlement: Rossington


The SMR does not record any monuments or events within the site. One event is recorded within the northern edge of the buffer zone, fieldwalking and geophysical survey along the route of a new road, which recorded Iron Age to Roman field ditches and two flints.


The Magnesian Limestone in South and West Yorkshire Aerial Photographic Mapping Project recorded a rectilinear enclosure and associated field boundaries of probable Iron Age to Roman date within the southern part of the site. Earthwork ridge and furrow remains were recorded within the northern edge of the buffer in 1946, but this area has since been developed.

Historic Environment Characterisation records the present character of the site and much of the western and southern buffer as the modern Bankwood Industrial Estate. The main central part of the site is a large depot, in an area formerly West End Wood, with the edge of the depot fossilising the boundary of the ancient woodland. The western edge of the site is a former sewage works within the industrial estate and the southwest edge was used as allotments prior to the creation of the industrial estate. Further character zones within the buffer comprise agglomerated fields to the north, drained wetland at the northeast edge, ancient woodland to the east, allotments to the southeast and west, social housing estate to the south and part of a colliery spoil heap at the western edge.

Historic landfill data records one small tip within the site, called Bankwood Lane. Two further tips are recorded within the western part of the buffer, Rossington Dumpit Site to the southwest and Bankwood Lane Allotments at the northwest edge.

The site is currently predominantly a large area of hardcore-surfaced depot yard, mainly used for storage and parking, with five lightweight industrial buildings towards the western sides. A small area at the southwest side is grassed verges.


The 1854 map showed the majority of the site as West End Wood, which formed the western end of Park Wood. The southern and northern boundaries of the woodland are still visible in the current layout, as is most of the western boundary. The west and southwest edges of the site were part of fields to the east of Bank Wood Lane at that date. The northern boundary of the site was marked by Rossington Drain. The 1892 map showed a series of footpaths running through the wood, and a drain along the eastern site boundary, with two boundaries marked within the wood, possibly narrow streams. By 1930, a sewage works was shown at the western edge of the site, in a former field, with filter beds and sludge beds. The southwest edge of the site was part of an area of allotment gardens. By 1962, part of the wood had been cleared, with enclosures shown at the southern and western sides of the formerly wooded area. The woodland was mainly shown as a mixture of wood and scrub by 1980, with more divisions shown within it, whilst the sewage works was shown as smaller, the filter and sludge beds having been infilled. By 1989, depot buildings were shown within the western side of the former wood, of which the western half had been cleared and formed the depot yard. The allotments to the southwest had gone by this date, and the area was shown as vacant ground to the north of factories. By 1993, only the northeast corner of the wood survived, with an irregularly shaped pond shown in this area to the south of the Rossington Drain. The sewage works was not labelled at that date.

Within the buffer, the 1854 map showed Park Wood to the east and Pheasant Bank Wood to the west, with Bank Wood Lane running through the western side of the buffer on a north-south alignment and West End Lane crossing the southern end. The canalised route of the River Torne ran to the north of and parallel with Rossington Drain and the Great Northern Railway line ran through the northeast edge of the buffer. The remaining area was fields. There were no changes until 1930, when New Rossington colliery village had extended into the southern part of the buffer and a mineral railway line and sidings were shown to the north of Rossington Drain. By 1956,



further housing was under construction in the southwest part of the buffer. A factory and depot were shown to the southwest of the site in 1989, with further works, coal and scrap yards shown to the west of Bank Wood Lane. Pheasant Bank Wood had been cleared by 1993 and may have become a spoil heap, with a conveyor from Rossington Main Colliery extending into it.

Survival:

The extent of subsoil disturbance associated with the creation of the depot yard is unclear. Topsoil is likely to have been stripped when the hardcore surface was laid, which could have impacted on the preservation of sub-surface deposits. The main part of the site was formerly ancient woodland, and tree roots are also likely to have caused some disturbance to sub-surface deposits. Across the main depot site, the potential for the preservation of unrecorded buried archaeology is considered to be generally moderate. The exceptions to this are the northeast edge, where a pond was shown in 1993 and a small area in the centre which is recorded as historic landfill, though no map evidence for this has been found. Within the western edge of the site, the preservation is considered to be negligible to low, as this area was formerly part of a sewage works with sludge beds and filter beds, since infilled. The potential at the southwest edge of the site is considered to be moderate to high, as this area does not appear to have been landscaped and was formerly in use as fields and allotments.

The depot site largely preserves the boundary of the former West End Wood, retaining some legibility of the historic landscape character of this area of ancient woodland. The only place where this boundary has been removed is at the western side. Cropmarks of a probable Iron Age to Roman enclosure and field boundaries have been recorded within the southern part of the site.



Significance:

Remains associated with Iron Age to Roman dispersed settlement and agriculture could be of Local to Regional archaeological significance depending on their extent, nature and condition.


The 2002-2012 aerial photographs shown the main part of the site as a large area of hardcore-surfaced depot yard, mainly used for storage and parking, with five lightweight industrial buildings towards the western sides. The boundary of the depot yard was formerly that of West End Wood. The photographs suggest that there is a slight embankment around the edges of this area, and it is not clear if this was part of the historic woodland boundary or if it indicates that ground levels within the depot have been lowered. A small area at the southwest side of the site is grassed verges. The former sewage works at the western edge of the site survives as a series of tanks and a single building. Only a small area at the northeast corner of the site is covered by Lidar data. This shows the drainage ditches depicted on modern mapping, and slight banking around the north and northeast edge of the site.


Google Earth coverage 2002, 2003, 2007, 2008, 2009 & 2012. Lidar data tiles SK6099, SK6198 & SK6199 DTM 1m. RAF/CPE/UK/1880 2109 06-Dec-1946; OS/89258 0038 11-Jun-1989.



ESY1464 Geophysical survey and fieldwalking, FARRRS, Doncaster

Fieldwalking and geophysical survey were conducted along the route of a new road near Finningley and Rossington. Field boundaries and enclosures of probable Iron Age or Romano-British date were identified by the geophysical survey. The fieldwalking exercise recovered only two flints.

Y





HSY4741 Bankwood Industrial estate, New Rossington, Doncaster

Other Industry Y


Utilities Y


Other Industry Y Y

HSY4222 Loversall and Potteric Carr, Loversall, Doncaster

Agglomerated fields Y

HSY4230 Rossington Main Colliery spoil 2, Rossington, Doncaster

Spoil Heap Y

HSY4446 Park Wood, Rossington, Doncaster Ancient Woodland Y

HSY4641 Bessacarr Lane, Doncaster Drained Wetland Y

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

HSY4739 York Street, New Rossington, Doncaster Allotments Y

HSY4768 Bank Wood Lane, New Rossington, Doncaster Allotments Y



Allocation Reference: 522 Allocation Type: Housing Site Name: Tornado, Red House Interchange






Summary

Within site Within buffer zone Scheduled Monument - 1 Listed Building - - SMR record/event 1 record/5 events 4 records/11 events Cropmark/Lidar evidence Yes Yes Cartographic features of interest No Yes Estimated sub-surface disturbance Low n/a



Allocation Reference: 522 Allocation Type: Housing Site Name: Tornado, Red House Interchange



The SMR records five events within the site: two geophysical surveys, an archaeological evaluation and an excavation and watching brief, all investigating and recording Iron Age to Roman field systems and enclosures. One monument recorded as a point just outside the site to the south appears to be related to the enclosures that extend into the site. These did not produce evidence for settlement activity.

The SMR records one findspot and three monuments within the buffer zone: a beehive quern, the Roman Ridge Roman road, a ring ditch and Iron Age to Roman enclosures and associated field system. Eleven events are recorded in the buffer: three archaeological evaluations, three geophysical surveys, three archaeological excavations, two watching briefs and a survey of the Roman Ridge cycle route.

One Scheduled Monument is recorded at the eastern edge of the buffer zone: the Roman Ridge Roman road. No listed buildings are recorded within the site or the buffer zone.

The Magnesian Limestone in South and West Yorkshire Aerial Photographic Mapping Project recorded an Iron Age or Roman ditched enclosure within the site; this has subsequently been excavated. Ditches, trackways and enclosures from these periods were recorded in the buffer zone.

The Historic Environment Characterisation records the present character of the site as Warehousing, a commercial development of sheds with no legibility of the former surveyed enclosures. A number of sites known from cropmark evidence were excavated in advance of construction on this site revealing a complex landscape of enclosures and farmsteads dating to the late Iron Age and Roman periods. The western boundary of the site is formed by the former Great North Road known at this point as the 'Roman Ridge' and originally a Roman road. Character zones within the buffer are defined as Motorway and Trunk Road Junctions and Agglomerated Fields.

The site is currently rough grassland with evidence for disturbed ground, surrounded by an industrial park.


The site was shown as fields on the 1851 OS map. Other than the removal of field boundaries, no further changes were shown within the site on OS maps produced up to 1983.

Various features were marked within the buffer zone on the 1851 OS map including fields, Ling Field Lane, Ling Field Closes, Red House Lane, and the course of the Roman Ridge Roman road. The South Yorkshire Junction Railway line had been built by 1906, with housing and the A1(M) Doncaster By-Pass shown within the buffer zone on the 1961 OS map.

Survival:

Previous archaeological investigation has identified, excavated and recorded Iron Age to Roman enclosures and field boundaries within the site. It is likely that the site has been subject to some archaeological mitigation though reporting is currently incomplete.


As the extent of archaeological mitigation across this site is currently unclear and under-reported, further clarification of the extent of archaeological recording undertaken is likely to be required if the site is brought forward for development.

Significance:

Uncertain. If mitigation is complete, the residual significance of archaeological remains will be negligible; however, this is currently unknown.




Twenty-first-century aerial photographs show the site as rough grassland within an area bounded by warehouses in 2002, with substantial dumped material in the eastern part of the site between 2003 and 2015. Lidar data shows the dumped material and associated ground disturbance, along with other linear features that do not appear to be of archaeological origin. Woodlands, a substantial development with major access roads, had taken place within the buffer zone by 2002.


Google Earth: 2002, 2003, 2008, 2009 and 2015. Bing Maps: 2015. Lidar data file SE5208 DTM 1m.



Site? Buffer?

1003672 Roman Ridge, Roman road, NW of Doncaster Y



01298/01 Beehive Quern top stone, Brodsworth

Top stone of a beehive quern from ploughed field. 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 towards Castleford. Two phases of road were identified in excavations undertaken ahead of the construction of Doncaster Bypass. Topographic survey in 2009 identified areas of surviving ridge (agger).

Y

05643 Romano-British enclosure and field system, Redhouse, Doncaster

Ring ditch identified as a cropmark on aerial photographs, c300m NE of PIN 05641

Y

05646 Late Iron Age to Romano-British enclosures and associated field system

Iron Age to Romano-British field systems and enclosures were identified by geophysical survey and a series of watching briefs on soil stripping. No evidence for settlement activity was recorded in these enclosures, and the small amount of pottery recovered suggests a late Iron Age initial phase continuing into the Roman period.

Y 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

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


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 in Areas 7, 14, 15, 16, & 17, Redhouse, Adwick le Street. Part of a field system and possible trackway, thought to be of Romano-British date, were identified as was part of a possible enclosure with a small number of pits containing pottery of 2nd-4th century AD date.

Y Y

ESY1145 Watching brief on site of Unit 2, Redhouse, Adwick le Street

Watching brief on topsoil stripping of the site of Unit 2, Redhouse, Adwick le Street (Enclosure 6 and elements of the surrounding field system - thought to be Iron Age in origin but principally Romano-British in date)

Y

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

Excavation of 4 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 Y

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

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

ESY1436 Geophysical survey at the site of Hampole Wind Farm, Hampole

A geophysical survey identified a number of linear anomalies likely to represent former field boundaries. A number of other anomalies probably represent modern features and disturbance.

Y

ESY1437 Trial trenching at Hampole Wind Farm

50 trenches were excavated at the site of Hampole Wind Farm. Linear features representing Iron Age to Romano-British field boundaries were recorded, along with a number of other shallow features. Artefactual evidence was sparse and poorly preserved.

Y

ESY1438 Excavations at Hampole Wind Farm, Hampole

Excavation was carried out to investigate a features identified during earlier evaluative work. Remains associated with an Iron Age and Romano-British field system were identified.

Y



HSY4154 Redhouse Interchange, Brodsworth, Doncaster Warehousing Y Y

HSY226 Red House Interchange Motorway and Trunk Road Junctions

Y

HSY4155 Ling Fields, north of Brodsworth, Doncaster Agglomerated fields Y



Allocation Reference: 523 Allocation Type: Employment Site Name: DBIC Phase 2, Doncaster Carr/Leisure Park






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 No Yes Estimated sub-surface disturbance Unknown n/a



Allocation Reference: 523 Allocation Type: Employment Site Name: DBIC Phase 2, Doncaster Carr/Leisure Park



There are no SMR records for the site itself. Within the buffer zone, the find spot of a Roman coin is located to the north of the site, and further to the north is the find spot of an Anglo-Saxon coin.

No Scheduled Monuments are recorded within the site or the buffer zone. One listed building is located within the buffer zone to the north of the site, the grade II listed Carr Grange Cemetery Chapel.


An area of Historic Landfill is recorded across the site and at the southern end of the buffer zone, named Former Allotment Gardens, Ten Pound Walk. To the east and south of the site, the historic landfill area of Ten Pound Walk is also recorded. No further information is given for these records.

Historic Environment Characterisation records the present character of the site as part of a business park, dating to the mid to late 1990s. The business park contains a mix of industrial and business premises. The park was constructed on former allotments which were first depicted on the 1893 OS map. Before this, the area consisted of agricultural land. The original pattern of enclosures was created by a programme of drainage on Doncaster Carr. This resulted in a series of straight and regular fields aligned on the drainage ditches. Legibility of the former landscape is invisible. The buffer zone contains a variety of character types including a cemetery, modern housing, motorway and schools.

The site is currently a triangular parcel of scrub wasteland, with a business park to the immediate south and a cemetery to the immediate north.


On the 1851 map, the site is shown as part of a field. By 1930 allotment gardens had been established across the site, which extended to the south. By 1961 the northern end of the site was depicted as embanked to the north, denoted by hachures, and some sheds are present along the northern site boundary. By 1969 many of the boundaries of the allotment gardens had been removed, although the area was still marked as allotments. There are no changes on the 1992 map.

The area surrounding the site comprised fields in 1851, many of the boundaries of which were marked as drains. Ten Pound Walk was partially extant to the south of the site, but was unnamed. By 1893 significant development had occurred within the buffer zone: to the north, Doncaster Cemetery had been established, with some housing further to the north, east and west. The area to the south was allotment gardens, with some of the original fields also still remaining. By 1979 a siding and a train depot extended into the southern area of the buffer zone.

Survival:

The site was part of drained wetland since 1650 and became allotments by 1894. An area of historic landfill is recorded across the site, but no evidence for this was found on historic mapping. Topsoil may have been stripped across the site when the adjacent business park was developed. In the absence of detailed information relating to this landfill, the potential for the survival of unrecorded buried archaeological remains is unknown.


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

Significance:

Unknown.




Twenty-first century aerial photography demonstrates that sometime between 1992 and 2002 the allotments were removed, and the area to the south of site was developed with modern industrial buildings, which by 2003 butted up to the southern site boundaries. The 2002 image showed the site itself with some patches of bare ground, suggesting topsoil may have been stripped across the site as part of the business park development. It currently comprises scrub wasteland. Lidar imagery shows a discontinuous linear embankment along the northern site boundary, shown on aerial photographs as scrub-covered mounds.


Google Earth images 2002, 2003, 2008, 2009, 2015. Lidar data tile SE5702 DTM 1m.



Site? Buffer?

1314876 Carr Grange Cemetery Chapel II Y



01086/01 Roman coin, Hyde Park, Doncaster

AE (bronze/copper) Centennionalis of Magentius (AD 350-353) found during demolition of Arthur Street, Hyde Park in 1970.

Y

02266/01 Anglo-Saxon period (Byzantine) coin, Doncaster town centre

AE follis, late tenth, early eleventh century. Found in back yard of 164 Catherine Street, Hyde Park, Doncaster, under soil

Y



HSY5257 Middle Bank, Doncaster Business Park Y Y

HSY5261 Railway Sidings, Doncaster Train Depot/ Sidings Y

HSY5280 Hyde Park Cemetery, Doncaster Cemetery Y

HSY5282 Kelham Street, Doncaster Business Park Y

HSY5306 Balby Road Bridge, Doncaster Motorway and Trunk Road Junctions

Y

HSY5310 Stirling Primary School, Prospect Place, Doncaster

School Y

HSY5312 Stirling Street, Doncaster Terraced Housing Y

HSY5314 Carr Grange, Doncaster Business Park Y

HSY5317 Carr House Road, Doncaster School Y

HSY5319 Hyde Park Junction, Doncaster Motorway and Trunk Road Junctions

Y

HSY5887 St James Street Estate, Doncaster Planned Estate (Social Housing) Y

HSY5914 St James' Street, Doncaster Planned Estate (Social Housing) Y



Allocation Reference: 524 Allocation Type: Employment Site Name: Royal Mail, Doncaster Carr/Leisure Park






Summary

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



Allocation Reference: 524 Allocation Type: Employment Site Name: Royal Mail, Doncaster Carr/Leisure Park



No SMR records exist for the site itself. Within the buffer zone, two findspots are recorded: a Bronze Age cup to the south of the site, and an Iron Age/Romano-British partial beehive quern to the northeast of the site. One event is recorded within the buffer zone, an archaeological watching brief which did not identify any archaeological remains.



Historic Environment Characterisation records the present character of the site as part of a business park, dating to the mid to late 1990s. The business park contains a mix of industrial and business premises. The park was constructed on former allotments which were first depicted on the 1893 OS map. Before this, the area consisted of agricultural land. The original pattern of enclosures was created by a programme of drainage on Doncaster Carr. This resulted in a series of straight and regular fields aligned on the drainage ditches. Legibility of the former landscape is invisible. The buffer zone contains a variety of character types including a cemetery, modern housing, motorway and schools.

An area of Historic Landfill is recorded at the eastern end of the buffer zone, named Business Park. To the west is an area named Ten Pound Walk, and at the very western end of the buffer zone is another area named Former Allotment Gardens, Ten Pound Walk. No further information is given for these records.

The site is currently a triangular parcel of scrub wasteland, surrounded by industrial units and modern housing.


In 1851 the site was part of fields. Black Bank was present immediately to the south of the site, with further banks to the south and west. A number of allotments had been established to the east of the site by 1893, and by 1930 a number of small buildings were marked in this area, probably sheds. By 1938 a small row of terraced housing had been built at the western end of the site, fronting onto Black Bank. By 1961 a large Works building had been constructed over the majority of the site, with smaller works buildings built behind the terraced housing. By 1984 the terraced housing at the west of the site had been removed, and the allotment gardens had been removed from the eastern end of the site, which by this time was marked as Depot. The large Works building at the centre of the site had been removed by 1992.

The area surrounding the site in 1851 was largely strip fields. To the south of the site were a number of banks. By 1893 the area to the north of the site had become heavily developed with terraced housing, labelled Hyde Park. To the east, south and west, numerous allotment gardens had been laid out and Doncaster Cemetery had been established to the west. Between 1893 and 1930, the housing in Hyde Park, to the north of the site, became much more dense. By 1956 some small scale works had been established immediately to the west of the site, with further works to the north of the site by 1961. By 1984 the allotment gardens to the east of the site had been removed and replaced with a depot. By 1992 the allotment gardens to the west also appear to have been removed, and also to the south, which had been replaced with small industrial type buildings.

Survival:

A succession of buildings have occupied the site from 1930, including terraced housing at the western end and a large works building over the majority of the site by 1961. These buildings are likely to have severely truncated sub-surface on the site. As such, the potential for the survival of unrecorded buried archaeological remains is considered to be low.




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

Significance:

Negligible


Twenty-first century aerial photography shows the site to be vacant ground in 2002, with no standing buildings surviving. This has remained the case ever since, with the site comprising scrub wasteland with light tree cover. Industrial buildings immediately surround the site. No earthworks of archaeological interest have been identified within Lidar data for the site.


Google Earth images 2002, 2003, 2008, 2009 & 2015. Lidar data tiles SE5702 & SE5802 DTM 1m.



00667/02 Bronze Age incense cup

Bronze Age incense cup Y

04299/01 Partial Beehive Quern, Childers Street, Doncaster

Upper stone of a beehive quern found at Childers Street. Y

ESY899 Archaeological Watching Brief at Tesco Distribution Centre, Doncaster, South Yorkshire

An archaeological watching brief was undertaken concurrent with the excavation of series of geotechnical test pits at the Tesco Distribution Centre on White Rose, Doncaster. No archaeological deposits, features or artefacts were identified in any of the test pits. The only deposits disturbed by these ground works were of modern rubble and made ground.

Y



HSY5257 Middle Bank, Doncaster Business Park Y Y

HSY5239 Doncaster Carr, Doncaster Business Park Y

HSY5272 Chequer Avenue, Doncaster Allotments Y

HSY5280 Hyde Park Cemetery, Doncaster Cemetery Y

HSY5283 Lime Tree Avenue, Hyde Park, Doncaster Planned Estate (Social Housing) Y

HSY5301 Carr House Road, Hyde Park, Doncaster Terraced Housing Y

HSY5314 Carr Grange, Doncaster Business Park Y

HSY5317 Carr House Road, Doncaster School Y

HSY5319 Hyde Park Junction, Doncaster Motorway and Trunk Road Junctions Y





Site Name: South Quay, off Lakeside Boulevard

Area (Ha): 0.51


Settlement: Doncaster Urban Area





Summary



Listed Building - -

SMR record/event - 1 event

Cropmark/Lidar evidence Yes Yes

Cartographic features of interest No Yes

Estimated sub-surface disturbance Low? n/a





Site Name: South Quay, off Lakeside Boulevard

Area (Ha): 0.51


Settlement: Doncaster Urban Area

Site assessment


There are no SMR records within the site. Within the buffer zone, one event is recorded, a geophysical survey to

the northeast of the site. No archaeological features were identified.


The Magnesian Limestone in South and West Yorkshire Aerial Photographic Mapping Project records the external

boundary of a 20th

-century airfield enclosing the site and extending into the buffer. Within the buffer zone, to the

northeast of the site, enclosures and field boundaries of an Iron Age/Romano British field system have been

recorded.

Historic Environment Characterisation records the present character of the site and the north-eastern area of the

buffer zone as an artificial lake, created as part of the leisure and business development of the surrounding area

in the mid 1990s. Prior to this, the site was occupied by fields with straight and regular edges indicative of

parliamentary enclosure, part of High Ellers Common prior to the 1779 Parliamentary Award. Legibility of this

former landscape is invisible. Additional character zones within the buffer zone include a business park, a retail

park and regenerated scrubland.

One area of Historic Landfill covers the site and part of the buffer, named Sandy Lane, recorded from 1960-1971,

though the site was part of an airfield at that date. Within the buffer zone, to the immediate northwest of the

site, Doncaster Airport Tip is recorded. No further information is given for these records.

The site currently comprises a single parcel of scrubland, bounded on the northern side by an artificial lake.


In 1854 the site was located within a group of fields, labelled Carr House Carr. Calder’s Drain ran through the

eastern edge of the site on an approximate north to south alignment. By 1955 all of the field boundaries within

and to the north of the site had been removed. By 1980, this area was marked as Doncaster Airport. The airport is

thought to have been constructed in 1934 and is known to have been in use during WWII, although the airport

itself is not labelled as such until 1977 OS maps. The 1960 OS map depicts some features within the site,

presumably associated with the airport, although they are unlabelled. During the war the airport, which had a

grass runway, housed a Ministry of Aircraft Production factory where Westland Lysander reconnaissance planes

were built. It is understood that the airport later reverted to a civilian aerodrome, until it was closed in 1992.

There was no change on the site on the 1993 map.

On the 1854 map, the area surrounding the site comprised straight and regular fields with a high proportion of

the field boundaries marked as drainage, including the substantial Lady Bank Drain, which is aligned

approximately northwest to southeast to the west of the site. By 1894 a small nursery had been established to

the south of the site. Many of the field boundaries and drains had been removed to the north of the site on the

1955 map, marking the area of Doncaster Airport, although the area is not labelled as such until 1977 OS maps.

By 1972 a tip was marked to the immediate north of the site. By 1984 the A6182, to the southwest of the site,

had been constructed, and the tip to the north appeared to have been infilled. There is little change on the 1993

OS map.

Survival:

The site was part of fields in 1854, and was located on the fringes on Doncaster airport from the 1930s. Historic

landfill data records the site as being part of an area which has seen an episode of landfill, although the nature of

this remains unclear and is not shown on historic maps; a tip is marked to the north of the site, but not within the

site itself. No significant disturbance is evident on the site since 1851, although further investigation into the

historic landfill data would be useful to determine the potential for survival of unrecorded buried archaeological

remains on the site. Some below-ground disturbance may have been caused on the site during the construction



of the lake which is located to the immediate north of the site.



Significance:

Unknown.


Summary:

Twenty-first century aerial photographs show that the current site boundaries were established sometime

between 1993 and 2002, with the construction of the pond to the immediate north of the site and the industrial

estate and associated infrastructure to the south. The site has remained undeveloped since.

No heritage assets were identified within Lidar data for the site. An area of disturbance at the north-eastern area

of the site is evident.


Google Earth images 2002, 2003, 2008, 2009, 2015

Google Street View images 2015

RAF/58/1891 F21 0090 14-Oct-1955, OS/78052 0269 25-May-1978, OS/92256 0232 20-Jul-1992

SMR Record/event

Reference

ID


ESY906 Report on

Geophysical Survey

at Doncaster

Airport

Although no evidence for archaeological remains is apparent

with the development area, the site lies within a broad area of

archaeological interest. In particular, a complex of cropmarks

to the south suggests prehistoric and Romano-British field

system which might extend into the development area.

Y


Reference

ID


HSY5238 Lakeside Boulevard, Doncaster Artificial Lake Y Y

HSY5239 Doncaster Carr, Doncaster Business Park Y

HSY5240 Potteric Carr Road, Doncaster Regenerated Scrubland Y

HSY5254 White Rose Way, Doncaster Retail Park Y



Allocation Reference: 527 Allocation Type: Employment Site Name: M &J Polymers Expansion Land, Denaby Ln

Area (Ha): 1.20 NGR (centre): SK 4915 9914 Settlement: Denaby





Summary

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



Allocation Reference: 527 Allocation Type: Employment Site Name: M &J Polymers Expansion Land, Denaby Ln

Area (Ha): 1.20 NGR (centre): SK 4915 9914 Settlement: Denaby


The SMR does not record any monuments or events within the site. One monument is recorded within the buffer, an area in Denaby Wood where numerous finds of Romano-British pottery, coins and iron slag have been found.

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

The Magnesian Limestone in South and West Yorkshire Aerial Photographic Mapping Project recorded the site of a 20th-century munitions factory, its associated road system, buildings and blast walls, within both the site and the buffer. Also within the buffer are a number of post-medieval mine shaft hollows to the southwest of the site, with one shaft to the immediate northeast of the site.

The Historic Environment Characterisation records the present character of the site and much of the buffer as a modern industrial estate, developed following the closure of Denaby Main Colliery. The site was used as a 'Flameless Explosives Works' from 1891 to 1967. Further character zones within the buffer include the probable ancient woodland of Denaby Wood to the southwest; valley floor meadows to the northeast, possibly originating in the medieval period; modern agglomerated fields with no legibility of earlier enclosure types to the south; and a modern planned social housing estate in the eastern part of the buffer.

The site is currently rough ground and hardstanding areas within an industrial estate, with the southern boundary formed by Eland Road and the northern boundary by Coalpit Road.


In 1854, the site was shown as part of a field and part of Coalpit Plantation. In 1892 and 1906 an explosive works was shown to the north, but the itself site was unchanged. The 1930 map did not show the works, though they were shown on later maps, suggesting this was a deliberate omission for security reasons. The works were shown on the 1956 OS map, by which date a building occupied the north end of the site. The 1958 map showed that the works road network had extended south to encompass the site and further structures were shown within the woodland to the south. The building at the northern end of the site was shown as a warehouse in 1972, when the rest of the site was a vacant area within the works, which appeared to be disused at that date. The 1974 OS map also showed the remains of the road layout and the warehouse. By 1987, the southern side of the site was shown as a terraced platform, with the warehouse building still extant. The southern boundary of the site was also terraced, marked by a slope down from woodland to the south.

Within the buffer, the 1854 map showed the area as fields and woodland, including Denaby Wood to the southwest and Coalpit Plantation to the east. By 1892, the 'Flameless Explosive Works (Securite)' had been built to the north of the site, apparently with an internal rail network connecting the factory to a series of magazines set within blast wall banks. The railway continued south from the works into Coalpit Plantation east of the site, where two further magazines were shown. The 1930 map showed the area as fields and woodland, with a linear hollow to the south of Coalpit Plantation. This must have been a deliberate omission of the works, as they were shown on the 1956 map. By 1958 further magazines and blast walls had been built to the south and west of the site, within the wooded area. The works was disused by 1972, with the northern end occupied by a depot and works buildings to the north of the site, which had expanded further by 1980. Housing estates were shown at the eastern side of the buffer in 1974, extending further southwards by 1980.

Survival:

The northern part of the site was occupied by a building from the mid- to late 20th century. The extent of sub-surface disturbance caused by this structure is unclear, as it may have been a warehouse with only shallow foundations. It is also unknown how much landscaping was undertaken following the closure of the works and during the construction of the industrial estate. The potential for the survival of unrecorded buried archaeological remains is currently unknown.




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

Significance:

Unknown.


The 2002 aerial photograph showed the site as predominantly rough ground between two light industrial sheds, with some parking on the northeast side. By 2008, a strip of hard standing had been laid out across the centre of the site, used for storing containers. The remainder of the site remained rough grass and shrubs. There is no available Lidar data for this site.


Google Earth 2002, 2003, 2008, 2009 & 2015.

RAF/CPE/UK/2011 5372 16-Apr-1947; RAF/543/9F22-0325 19-Jun-1957; MAL/79015 0105 02-Jun-1979.



04672 Romano-British Artefact Scatter, Denaby Wood, Denaby

Numerous finds of Romano-British pottery, coins, and iron slag are reported to have been found at Denaby Wood.

Y



HSY5321 Denaby Lane Industrial Estate, Denaby Main, Doncaster

Other Industry Y Y

HSY4557 Denaby Wood, Denaby, Doncaster Ancient Woodland Y

HSY5318 Denaby Main village (former western allotment section), Denaby Main, Doncaster


HSY5320 Harrogate Drive area, Denaby Main, Doncaster Planned Estate (Social Housing) Y

HSY5378 Land north of Denaby Old Village, Doncaster Valley Floor Meadows Y

HSY5379 Land south of Denaby Main Village, Doncaster Agglomerated fields Y





Site Name: Brookland Road, Carcroft Common

Area (Ha): 0.76


Settlement: Carcroft Skellow





Summary



Listed Building - -



Cartographic features of interest No Yes

Estimated sub-surface disturbance Low n/a





Site Name: Brookland Road, Carcroft Common

Area (Ha): 0.763

NGR (centre): SE 54615 09371

Settlement: Carcroft Skellow

Site assessment


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


The Magnesian Limestone in South and West Yorkshire Aerial Photographic Mapping Project recorded levelled

ridge and furrow within the buffer zone, mainly in areas since built on.

The Historic Environment Characterisation records the present character of the site as an industrial park that

appears to have developed as the mining activity of Bullcroft died off, with a mixture of occupants including an

'Oil Railway Terminal' and a residential Caravan Park. The edges of the estate were formerly the boundaries of a

common, so legibility is fragmentary. Character zones within the buffer are defined as Terraced Housing, Semi-

detached Housing, Other Industry and Surveyed Enclosure (Parliamentary/Private).


The site was shown as part of a field on the 1851 OS map, with the northern boundary marked by a railway line

and the northeast boundary by Station Lane. Other than the removal of field boundaries associated with

development to the east, no changes were shown within the site on OS maps produced up to 1971. Part of the

eastern boundary was established by 1932, with the site shown as part of undeveloped land within a depot yard

by 1982.

Various features were marked within the buffer zone on the 1851 OS map including fields, field boundaries, a plot

containing two buildings and a garden, the Great Northern and Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway

line and an associated level crossing, the Old Ea Beck, Station Road, Bentley Moor Lane and White Cross Bridge. A

detached building stood in a field to the north of the line at that date. A club and the Brooklands housing

development had been constructed to the east of the site by 1932. The Bullcroft Colliery railway sidings had been

added to the north of the site by that date, with a sewage works, a club and a hall also shown within the buffer.

Works, a depot and allotments were marked to the north of the railway line on the 1961 OS map, with a garage

on Station Road and Bentley Moor Lane and a works to the east. Further works, warehousing and a caravan park

were shown on the 1978 map. Wellsyke Road had been constructed by that date. The Brookland housing

development had been demolished by the time of the 1982 OS map.

Survival:

The site was a field until the late 20th

or early 21st

century. Lidar data suggests that ground levels may have been

raised across part of the site, possibly associated with landscaping, though it appears flat and graded on aerial

photographs. There may have been some disturbance to sub-surface deposits caused by recent topsoil stripping,

suggesting that the potential for the survival of buried archaeological remains is low to moderate.



Significance:

Unknown.




Summary:

A 2002 aerial photograph shows the site as an area of rough grassland with exposed soil suggesting some

disturbance, apparently by vehicle tracks. This is likely to have occurred in relation to the development of the

adjacent Brooklands Industrial Estate. By 2008, the site had been cleared of grass and scrub and apparently

stripped of topsoil, with a pile of soil shown in the northeast corner. In 2009 it was in use as a container park,

with areas of car parking and in 2015, it was being used as a lorry park. Lidar data shows a raised area at the

northern end of the site suggesting the area has been disturbed or landscaped, possibly with the raising of

ground levels. No potential archaeological features were visible.


Google Earth: 2002, 2003, 2008, 2009 and 2015. Bing Maps: 2015. Lidar data file SE5409.

RAF/CPE/UK/1880 5076 06-Dec-1946; RAF/543/9F22 0082 19-Jun-1957; MAL/68041 0202 10-Jun-1968.


Reference

ID


HSY148 Carcroft Common Industrial Estate Other Industry Y Y

HSY95 Owston Rd, Askern Road and Queens Road,

Carcroft

Terraced Housing Y

HSY134 Skellow Road Carcroft Semi-Detached Housing Y

HSY135 Carcroft Enterprise Park (former Bullcroft

sidings)

Other Industry Y

HSY253 Ings, Carcroft Surveyed Enclosure

(Parliamentary/ Private)

Y



Allocation Reference:529 Allocation Type: Employment Site Name: BLP Expansion, Kirk Sandall Industrial Estate






Summary

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



Allocation Reference:529 Allocation Type: Employment Site Name: BLP Expansion, Kirk Sandall Industrial Estate



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

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

The Magnesian Limestone in South and West Yorkshire aerial mapping project recorded ditched features as cropmarks within the site and southern half of the buffer. The features within the site appear to be a trackway and the corner of a field, with further field boundaries and trackways to the southwest and southeast. The features are likely to be of Iron Age to Roman date.

Historic Environment Characterisation records the present character of the site and the northwest part of the buffer as a modern industrial estate. Other character areas within the buffer comprise social housing estates of 20th-century date, and playing fields at the southern edge.

The most recent aerial imagery (2017) shows the site as an area of rough grass located between light industrial units and Doncaster Road. A substantial earthwork bund runs through the northern part of the site.


The 1854 OS map shows the site as part of two fields to the west of Doncaster Road. By 1962, some of the field boundaries had been removed. Only one boundary was shown running through the centre of the site in 1972. This was shown as a footpath in 1983.

Within the buffer, the 1854 map shows fields, those to the north and southwest of the site forming part of an area named Sandall Field, those to the east of Doncaster Road being part of Breck Field and Near Sandall Field. The name suggests the area is likely to have been open field during the medieval period. Doncaster Road, Holly Bush Lane and Church Balk were shown within the buffer. Some buildings were shown within the southern and northeast parts of the buffer by 1930, including detached and semi-detached houses and a hall. A football ground was also shown to the northeast of the site. In 1962, a building was shows within an enclosure to the southwest and further housing had been built to the southeast and east of the site. A ceiling tile factory was shown at the southwest edge of the buffer by 1972, when the eastern end of Sandall Carr Road had been laid out. Further industrial units had been laid out in the southwest part of the buffer and to the north of the site by 1983, and another added to the west by 1992.

Survival:

The site was part of a field from at least the mid-19th century, and does not appear to have been substantially disturbed by nearby development in the later 20th century, though an earthen bund was created within the site by 2014. Cropmark data suggests that there is the potential for the survival of Iron Age to Roman remains within the site, including a trackway and field boundaries. The potential for encountering archaeological remains is considered to be high.


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 activity could be considered to be of Local to Regional significance depending on their extent, nature and condition.




Aerial imagery from 2002 shows the site as a field of rough grass, with a remnant hedged field boundary running through the centre on an east-west alignment. Industrial units were shown to the west and north. A fenced boundary was shown along the east side of the northern part of the site in 2008. By 2014, an earthwork bund was shown in the northern part of the site, running through the field on a northeast-southwest alignment. This appeared to be related to development in the industrial estate to the immediate west. By 2015, the bund had become grassed over. Lidar data does not show any other earthwork features within the site.

Photograph/Lidar references:

Google Earth 2002, 2003, 2008, 2009, 2014, 2015 & 2017. Lidar 1m DTM.

Photographs transcribed by the Magnesian Limestone Mapping Project: MAL/60427 81695 21-Jun-1960; SE6107/2 NMR 719/030-32 02-Jul-1974.



HSY4759 Kirk Sandall Industrial Estate (South of Railway Line), Doncaster

Other Industry Y Y

HSY4748 Kirk Sandall Model Village, Kirk Sandall, Doncaster


HSY4752 Graham Road Estate, Kirk Sandal, Doncaster Planned Estate (Social Housing) Y

HSY4753 Kirk Sandall Junior School, Doncaster Planned Estate (Social Housing) Y

HSY4773 Mid twentieth century estate housing, Kirk Sandall, Doncaster


HSY5400 Holly Bush Lane, Edenthorpe, Doncaster Playing Fields/ Recreation ground Y





Site Name: Grampian Expansion, Coulman Road

Area (Ha): 1.30







Summary



Listed Building - -

SMR record/event - 1 event


Cartographic features of interest No No

Estimated sub-surface disturbance Low n/a





Site Name: Grampian Expansion, Coulman Road

Area (Ha): 1.30



Site assessment


The SMR does not record any monuments or events within the site. One event is recorded within the buffer zone,

consisting of archaeological evaluation at Thorne Grammar School. This recorded the remains of medieval to

post-medieval agriculture and 17th- to 18th-century pits.



medieval ridge and furrow earthworks in fields at the east and northeast sides of the buffer.

The Historic Environment Characterisation records the site as a modern Industrial Estate with no legibility of

previous landscapes. Landscape character zones within the buffer include a sports ground to the west and

enclosed, drained wetland to the east and southeast.

The site is currently maintained as rough grassland.


The 1853 OS map depicts the site as part of a larger field to the north of Thorne and Crowle Road (Church Balk).

This remained largely unchanged until 1975, when the northern boundary was defined by an industrial estate

developed within the buffer zone immediately to the north.

Within the buffer zone, the 1853 map depicts structures relating to Clap Gate and Clap Gate Farm are recorded

extending east away from Clap Gate Road to the southeast of the site. To the northeast, structures relating to

Moors Farm are also recorded at this date. The remainder the land within the buffer is depicted as narrow strips

of enclosed agricultural land. The 1906 OS map indicates that Clap Gate and Clap Gate Farm had been renamed

‘The Willows’. From 1962 to 1967, housing development was undertaken along Wike Gate Road, within the

buffer zone to the southwest. By 1975, an industrial estate had been developed within the north part of the

buffer.

Survival:

The lack of deep sub-surface disturbance suggests that the potential for the survival of any unrecorded buried

archaeological remains is moderate to high. Nearby trial trenching at Thorne Grammar School indicated the

potential for the survival of sub-surface remains of medieval to post-medieval agricultural activity within the

area.


Further archaeological investigation may be required if this site is allocated for development.

Significance:

Unknown. Remains associated with medieval to post-medieval agriculture are likely to be considered as being of

Local archaeological significance.


Summary:

Twenty-first-century aerial photographs show the site as rough grassland. Within the northwest corner of the site

a structure is visible on the 2002 and 2008 coverage. By 2009 it had been demolished, with only the foundations

remaining in situ.





SMR Record/event

Reference

ID


ESY257 Archaeological

Investigations at

Thorne Grammar

School

In 2004 a geophysical survey and a programme of trial

trenching was undertaken at Thorne Grammar School. The

results of the geophysical survey detected groups of linear

anomalies probably reflecting traces of ridge and furrow

ploughing and a former field system. The trial trenching

confirmed that the anomalies detected in the geophysical

survey related to the medieval/post-medieval agricultural use

of the site in the form of ridge and furrows, field boundaries

and drains. A number of pits and linear features dating from

the 17/18th century in the south-west of the site were

discovered.

Y


Reference

ID


HSY4669 Coulman Road Industrial Estate, Thorne

Common, Doncaster

Other Industry Y Y

HSY4394 Thorne Cables (Moorland Allotments), Thorne,

Doncaster

Drained Wetland Y

HSY4395 Thorne Cables (Agglomerated section),

Thorne, Doncaster

Drained Wetland Y


Doncaster

Drained Wetland Y

HSY4674 King Edward First School and Thorne Grammar

School, Thorne, Doncaster

School Y

HSY4677 South Common Estate, Thorne, Doncaster Planned Estate (Social Housing) Y

HSY5648 Rugby and Cricket Grounds, Coulman Road,

Thorne, Doncaster

Sports Ground Y

HSY5649 Parliamentary enclosures, North Common,

Thorne, Doncaster

Surveyed Enclosure

(Parliamentary/ Private)

Y



Allocation Reference: 531 Allocation Type: Employment Site Name: Balby Carr 1, Balby Carr Bank






Summary

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



Allocation Reference: 531 Allocation Type: Employment Site Name: Balby Carr 1, Balby Carr Bank



There are no SMR records within the site itself. Within the buffer zone three events are recorded, which identified a ring ditch and the remains of a 19th- to 20th-century structure. All three events are located at the very southern end of the buffer zone.

There are no Scheduled Monuments or listed buildings recorded the site or the buffer zone.


Historic Environment Characterisation records the present character of the site and the majority of the buffer zone as industrial. Industrialisation in the area began in the second half of the 19th century with the construction of a wagon works, and gathered pace throughout the 20th century. Before this, the area consisted of agricultural land. The original pattern of enclosures was created by a programme of drainage on Balby Carr. This resulted in a series of straight and regular fields aligned on the drainage ditches, although legibility of this former landscape is invisible. Additional character types within the buffer zone include train depot/railway sidings to the north and drained wetland to the south.

The site currently comprises an area of scrubland, separated through the centre by a north-east to south-west aligned road. Industrial buildings immediately surround the site.


In 1851 the site was located at the northern end of a field. Balby Carr Bank was extant immediately to the north of the site, running along the northern site boundary, with the Mother Drain located just within the site boundary, following the course of the road. The western boundary of the site was also marked with a drain. By 1930 an additional field boundary had been added to the site, running northeast to southwest, down the centre. By 1961 this was marked as a drain, as were all of the field boundaries making up the boundaries of the site, although the southern site boundary is not present at this time. There is no evident change on the site on the 1992 map.

Within the buffer zone, the area surrounding the site was fields in 1851, labelled Potteric Carr to the south and Balby Carr to the north. The railway line was extant to the north of the site. A large Wagon Depot had been constructed immediately to the north of Balby Carr Bank by 1892, which was connected to the railway line to the north. By 1903 these works had been extended to the west. By 1992 a large works had been built to the west of the site. The area to the south of the site remained largely undeveloped by 1992, although contained many drains.

Survival:

The site is shown on the 1851 map as part of a field, and little development has occurred on the site since. At some point between 1992 and 2002, a small road has been constructed centrally down the site, along the line of a former drain, and an area of hardstanding has been laid to create an open-air car park. Ground works associated with this may have impacted on any shallow below-ground archaeological remains. The potential for the survival of any unrecorded buried archaeological remains is considered to be moderate.



Significance:

Unknown.




Twenty-first century aerial photographs demonstrate that the southern site boundary had been established by 2002, with the creation of a large industrial building immediately to the south of the site. Also by this time, a road had been created centrally through the site on a north-east to south-west alignment, leading to the industrial building, and a small open air car park had been established in the south-eastern area of the site. Little change had occurred on the site since, with the majority of the site comprising scrub grassland.

No previously unrecorded archaeological remains have been identified within the available Lidar data for the site.


Google Earth images 2002, 2003, 2008, 2009, 2015



ESY1060 First Point, Balby Carr Evaluation Areas A1 A2 A3

The evaluation uncovered features associated with a 19th /20th century farmhouse.

Y

ESY1061 First Point, Balby Carr, Doncaster Areas B1, B2, B3, E

Trial trenching that uncovered a ring ditch and V shaped ditch. The ring ditch was fully excavated.

Y

ESY1071 Ikea Site, Balby Carr, Doncaster

Geophysical survey (26/10/04 - 29/10/04) and trial trenching (14/12/04 - 14/01/05) carried out on proposed site of an Ikea..

Y



HSY4232 Balby, Loversall and Potteric Carr, Doncaster Drained Wetland Y

HSY5261 Railway Sidings, Doncaster Train Depot/ Sidings Y

HSY5277 Balby Carr Bank, Doncaster Metal Trades (Heavy) Y Y



Allocation Reference: 532 Allocation Type: Employment Site Name: Zone E1, First Point Business Park






Summary

Within site Within buffer zone Scheduled Monument - - Listed Building - - SMR record/event 1 event 4 records/10 events Cropmark/Lidar evidence No Yes Cartographic features of interest No No Estimated sub-surface disturbance Low n/a



Allocation Reference: 532 Allocation Type: Employment Site Name: Zone E1, First Point Business Park



One SMR event is recorded within the site and extending into the western and northern parts of the buffer and beyond. This comprised trial trenching that did not reveal any archaeological features within the site. Within the buffer, a ring ditch and a V-shaped ditch of probable late Iron Age date were identified and subject to open area excavation. Ten further events are recorded within the buffer zone, and those which identified archaeological remains recorded evidence of Iron Age/Romano-British activity. The four SMR monuments within the buffer zone are derived from remains revealed within these events. Three relate to Iron Age to Roman field systems and settlement activity, and the fourth is the remnants of a possible medieval deer park boundary.


The Magnesian Limestone in South and West Yorkshire Aerial Photographic Mapping Project does not record any features within the site. Within the buffer zone, traces of an Iron Age to Romano-British field system are recorded to the north, east and south of the site.

Historic Environment Characterisation records the present character of the site and the northwest and south-eastern end of the buffer zone as enclosed drained wetlands. The field boundaries as depicted on the 1854 OS map remain almost intact and are probably the result of the massive wetlands drainage programme in the 17th century. Prior to this the land was probably wet and marshy meadows. Legibility of the former landscape is invisible. Additional character areas within the buffer zone are agglomerated fields, industrial and educational sites.

The site currently comprises an area of scrubland. Modern industrial buildings immediately surround the site to the north, with fields to the south.


In 1854 the site was located within fields in an area named Potteric Carr. Division Drain was extant to the south of the site, forming the current southern site boundary, and a drain was present on a northeast to southwest alignment at the western end of the site, currently forming the western site boundary. No changes were evident by the time of the 1992 map.

Within the buffer zone, the area surrounding the site was fields in 1851, labelled Potteric Carr. Many of the field boundaries contained drains. A strip of trees, named New Plantation, was present on a northeast to southwest alignment to the east of the site, with drains down each edge, and Carr Lodge was depicted to the south of the site. By 1892 New Plantation had been renamed Duck Plantation, but by 1902 the trees had been removed and it was shown as heathland. A few internal field boundaries had been removed by 1992, but on the whole very little had changed within the buffer zone, with the area surrounding the site remaining undeveloped fields.

Survival:

The site is shown on the 1854 map as part of a field. No development is known to have taken place on the site since. In 2006, archaeological evaluation trenches within the site did not identify any features of archaeological significance, hence the potential for the survival of previously unrecorded archaeology is considered to be low.


Archaeological evaluation in the form of trial trenching has already occurred on the site (ESY1061); this did not identify any archaeological features within the site. No further archaeological investigation is likely to be required if the site is brought forward for development.

Significance:

Negligible.




Twenty-first-century aerial photographs show that by 2002 there was little change within the site since 1992, although a track running adjacent to Woodfield Way may be associated with the construction of the road. By 2008 much of the site had been stripped of topsoil, in association with development of an industrial estate to the immediate north. The site is currently scrubland.

No earthwork features of archaeological origin are visible within the available Lidar data for the site.


Google Earth images 2002, 2003, 2008, 2009, 2015. Lidar data tiles SE5700 & SE5800 DTM 1m.

ULM (RC8FK217) 13-JUN-1983.



05037 Roman Square Enclosure, Balby Carr

A square enclosure associated with contemporary ditches. Radiocarbon and artefact finds within the ditch fills suggests the enclosures began silting from the late 2nd century AD. There was no evidence of occupation features within the enclosure, but burnt bone remains suggestive of cooking refuse were found within the ditch fills.

Y

05038 Possible-Medieval Deer Park Boundary, Balby Carr

Ditch identified by geophysical survey and excavation. Possible boundary feature for a medieval deer park associated with Draw Dykes, a fortified manor built after 1220. The manor is said to have been associated with a park of a thousand acres. Modern and historic field boundaries may have fossilised this boundary feature

Y

05039 Balby Carr Brickwork Field System and Settlement

A number of ditches from a 'brickwork' plan field system were excavated to the west of White Rose Way in 2002. Environmental evidence suggests that locally this site is likely to have been pasture. There is evidence that the fields may have been surrounded by hedges. Radiocarbon dating of waterlogged wood from these features dates to between 50 BC to 130 AD. There were at least two phases of ditch construction and occupation, with roundhouses excavated in the west of the area in 2008.

Y

05617 Iron Age to Romano-British features, Carr Lodge Farm, Doncaster

Fieldwork in 2012 identified the remains of a field system, as well as a number of circular features including at least one roundhouse. Roman-British pottery was recovered from a number of the ditches, along with an Iron Age metalworking crucible. Geophysical survey in 2012 identified several linear features indicating that late prehistoric and Roman period field systems extended to the north and south of the excavated features.

Y

ESY286 Archaeological Field Evaluation at Carr Lodge Farm

A desk-based assessment, aerial photographic survey and a geophysical survey were completed prior to field evaluation and identified two enclosures and a number of other linear and pit type features. Evaluation revealed that the two main enclosures appear to have had hedged banks and were almost certainly used for stock control. The evidence suggests that in the past the site was used for agricultural purposes, with seasonal activity dependent upon the height of the water table.

Y

ESY887 Second Phase Archaeological

A mix of housing and retail uses have been proposed for the area, and this would have a serious effect on any

Y



Evaluation, Balby St. Catherines Hospital

archaeological remains. For this reason, it was recommended that a two -stage archaeological evaluation should take place in order to determine the presence or absence, nature, extent, date and state of preservation of any such remains.

ESY892 Geophysical Survey at Balby, Doncaster

The site lies on the southern outskirts of Doncaster, South Yorkshire, of the east of the A60 road and to the north of the M18 motorway. The site under investigation is an area of undulating arable land which at the time of the survey had either recently been ploughed or set aside. The geology comprises mainly alluvium and bounder clay and morainic drift on the western edge of the site.

Y

ESY1060 First Point, Balby Carr Evaluation Areas A1 A2 A3

The evaluation uncovered features associated with a 19th/ 20th century warehouse.

Y

ESY1061 First Point, Balby Carr, Doncaster Areas B1, B2, B3, E

Trial trenching uncovered a ring ditch and V-shaped ditch. The ring ditch was fully excavated.

Y Y

ESY1065 First Point, Balby Carr, Doncaster Area D1

Archaeological excavation revealing Iron Age settlement dated by radiocarbon to c.400-200 BC.

Y

ESY1066 Catesby Business Park, Doncaster

Evaluation at Balby Carr consisting of three trenches. Shallow ditches possibly associated with the adjacent late prehistoric and Romano-British field systems were identified. An undated row of wooden stakes was found.

Y

ESY1070 Balby Carr Balancing Pond

Strip and record excavation that uncovered four archaeological features

Y

ESY1071 Ikea Site, Balby Carr, Doncaster

Geophysical survey (26/10/04 - 29/10/04) and trial trenching (14/12/04 - 14/01/05) carried out on proposed site of an Ikea.

Y

ESY1383 Watching brief at Carr Lodge Farm, Doncaster

A watching brief was conducted ahead of construction of a spine road at Carr Lodge Farm in Doncaster. Recorded archaeological features included ditches comprising a field system, along with at least one roundhouse. Romano-British pottery was recovered, along with an Iron Age metalworking crucible.

Y



HSY4231 Potteric and Loversal Carr, Loversall, Doncaster Agglomerated fields Y

HSY4232 Balby, Loversall and Potteric Carr, Doncaster Drained Wetland Y Y

HSY5277 Balby Carr Bank, Doncaster Metal Trades (Heavy) Y

HSY5330 Balby Carr School, Balby, Doncaster School Y



Allocation Reference: 533 Allocation Type: Housing Site Name: Brodsworth Colliery






Summary

Within site Within buffer zone Scheduled Monument - 1 Listed Building - 13 SMR record/event 1 event 4 records/11 events Cropmark/Lidar evidence No Yes Cartographic features of interest No Yes Estimated sub-surface disturbance Extensive n/a



Allocation Reference: 533 Allocation Type: Housing Site Name: Brodsworth Colliery



The SMR records one event within the site, which relates to a watching brief at the northern end of the site, during which a number of cropmarks of unknown date were observed along with 20th-century deposits. Within the buffer, four monuments are recorded. To the east of the site, immediately outside the site boundary, is the Scheduled Monument of the Roman Ridge Roman Road, which forms part of the military route from Lincoln to York. To the west of the Roman road is a findspot of a Roman coin, and Romano-British enclosures are field systems are recorded to the northwest of the site. Within the eastern part of the buffer is the area of Woodlands Colliery Village, a model village constructed in the early 20th century for miners at the nearby Brodsworth Colliery. The SMR also records 11 events within the buffer, mostly located to the north of the site. These all relate to investigations recording areas of Romano-British field boundaries and rectilinear enclosures, possibly forming a 'ladder settlement' arrangement, provisionally dated to between the 1st and 2nd centuries AD.

There is one Scheduled Monument within the buffer, the Roman road. This is located to the immediate east of the site boundary, aligned roughly northwest to southeast. There are 13 listed buildings within the buffer, all of which are grade II listed, and all of which relate to the post-medieval/industrial development of the area.

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/Roman field boundaries are present to the northwest of the site. To the extreme west of the buffer, traces of levelled post-medieval ridge and furrow are recorded.

The Historic Environment Characterisation records the present character of the majority of the site and the southern area of the buffer as reclaimed the coal mine of Brodsworth Colliery, a landscaped former coal mine now regenerating as meadows and woodlands. The colliery closed in 1990 and there is partial legibility of this former extractive site. A small northern section of the site is recorded as a modern scrap yard with no legibility of the earlier surveyed enclosure landscape. The east and north-east of the buffer are characterised as a planned social housing estate at Woodlands colliery village, built to Percy Bond Houfton's geometric designs after the principles of the garden suburb movement. To the north-west of the site is the Redhouse Interchange character area, a commercial development of sheds with no legibility of the former enclosed fields.

The site currently comprises meadows and small patches of woodland with several intercutting pathways.


On the 1851 OS map, the site is shown as several irregularly-shaped several fields, with footpaths at the northern and southern ends. The general area within the site is marked as Terry Holt. Many of the field boundaries contain hedges and trees. By 1892, a narrow strip at the eastern end of the site was wooded, which had extended by 1906. By 1930, Brodsworth Colliery had been constructed across the majority of the site, with only a small area of land to the north left undeveloped. The Colliery was still present on the 1982 map but closed in 1990 and the land has since been reclaimed and is regenerating as meadows and woodlands.

Within the buffer, in 1851 the majority of the area comprised fields. The Roman road is clearly marked on all the historic OS maps. A small limestone quarry is marked to the north of the site, on the northern side of Long Lands Lane, and an east/west aligned track, marked Underhills Lane, is present to the south of the site, which turns into a footpath at the eastern end of the site and joins with the Roman road. By 1930, a water works had been built to the north of the site, and to the east, a housing estate had been constructed to house colliery workers. By 1961, further houses had been constructed to the north-east of the site.

Survival:

Due to the presence of Brodsworth Colliery over the vast majority of the site, the potential for the survival of unrecorded buried archaeology in the southern and central areas of the site is considered to be low. The only relatively undisturbed area is a small part of the northern tip of the site, adjacent to Long Lane, which has



previously been subject to an archaeological watching brief. The main part of the site appears to have been re-graded following demolition of the buildings. It is not known to what extent sub-surface remains of the colliery buildings survive, and how much ground levels have been raised during the landscaping activities.


Further consideration of the setting of the Roman Ridge road Scheduled Monument may be required if the site is brought forward for development. Archaeological mitigation has previously been undertaken in the only undisturbed part of the site, therefore further archaeological fieldwork is unlikely to be required.

Significance:

Negligible.


The northern area of the site contained a scrap yard in 2002, and the southern area of the site was still scarred with traces of the previous colliery, with much of the land undergoing reclamation, either being stripped or re-graded. By 2008, the majority of the land to the south was vegetated with grass and areas of trees, with intercutting footpaths, and the area to the north had been cleared of the scrap yard and vegetated with grass and trees. The site has remained much the same since.

The extent of the 19th- and early 20th-century colliery on the site is visible within the Lidar data. No earthworks associated with the Iron Age to Roman cropmarks within the buffer zone could be identified in the Lidar data.


Google Earth images 2002, 2003, 2007, 2008. Lidar data file SE 5207 DTM 1m.

RAF/CPE/UK/1879 1108 06-Dec-1946; SE5208/2 NMR 723/202-203 09-Jul-1974; SE5208/38 NMR 17570/37 02-Jul-2001.



Site? Buffer?

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

1151481 26-32, Green Lane II Y

1151482 34-38, Green Lane II Y

1151483 17-19, Quarry Lane II Y

1151484 45 and 47, The Crescent II Y



1151514 Church of All Saints II Y

1151515 2-8, Central Avenue II Y



1191756 Woodside Cottages II Y

1286947 49-53, The Crescent II Y

1314857 23 and 25, West Avenue II Y





02816/01 Roman Coin, Adwick-le-Street

Roman coin found in March 1986 adjacent to the Roman rigg. 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 towards Castleford. Two phases of road were identified in excavations undertaken ahead of the construction of Doncaster Bypass. Topographic survey in 2009 identified areas of surviving ridge (agger).

Y

04432/01 Woodlands Colliery Village

Model village constructed in the early 20th century for miners at the nearby Brodsworth Colliery.

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 Castleford.

Y

05639 Romano-British enclosures and field system, Redhouse Park, Adwick-le-Street

A number of enclosures, a track or droveway and a field system, arranged in a rectilinear form, were identified from aerial photography. The location and survival of these remains were confirmed by geophysical survey and excavation. Several enclosures containing pits, possible roundhouses and a beam slot for a rectangular building were excavated. The enclosures and droveway formed a 'ladder' type arrangement, embedded within a coaxial field system.

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


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


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

ESY343 Excavation of Enclosure 8 on Land at Redhouse Farm

Between October and December 2004 an excavation was conducted at Redhouse Farm on an enclosure identified in previous investigations. The area was characterised as a Romano-British sub-rectangular enclosure linked to additional features forming a 'ladder settlement' arrangement. A number of finds were recovered including Romano-British grey wares with a small percentage of red oxidised wares and black burnished wares. The pottery is provisionally dated to between the 1st and 2nd centuries AD.

Y

ESY357 Palaeo-Environmental Sampling at the Former Brodsworth Colliery

In January 2002 a bore hole survey was undertaken at the former Brodsworth Colliery. The results 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

ESY358 Watching brief at the Former Brodsworth Colliery

In 2008 a watching brief was conducted at the former Brodsworth Colliery. A number of cropmarks of unknown date were observed along with 20th century deposits.

Y Y

ESY986 Survey of Roman Ridge Cycle path

Measured and photographic survey of archaeological and Y



route modern features along path of cycle route


Watching brief on topsoil stripping of the site of Unit 6, Redhouse, Adwick le Street (part of field system north and west of Enclosure 8 excavated in 2004 - thought to be Iron Age in origin but principally Romano-British in date).

Y


Watching brief on topsoil stripping of the site of Unit 2, Redhouse, Adwick le Street (Enclosure 6 and elements of the surrounding field system - thought to be Iron Age in origin but principally Romano-British in date)

Y

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

7 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



HSY4891 Site of Pit Head, Brodsworth Colliery, Doncaster

Reclaimed Coal Mine Y Y

HSY5722 Long Lands Lane, Doncaster Metal Trades (Support) Y Y

HSY4154 Redhouse Interchange, Brodsworth, Doncaster Warehousing Y

HSY4160 Spoil tips, Former Brodsworth Main Colliery, Brodsworth, Doncaster

Reclaimed Coal Mine Y

HSY4161 Pickburn Leys, Brodsworth, Doncaster Surveyed Enclosure (Parliamentary/ Private)

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

HSY4895 Churches and other public buildings, Woodlands, Doncaster

Religious (Worship) Y

HSY4905 Woodlands (north), Adwick upon Street, Doncaster




Allocation Reference: 567 Allocation Type: Housing Site Name: Land at Station Road, Blaxton

Area (Ha): 1.11 NGR (centre): SK 6721 9988 Settlement: Blaxton





Summary

Within site Within buffer zone Scheduled Monument - - Listed Building - - 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: 567 Allocation Type: Housing Site Name: Land at Station Road, Blaxton

Area (Ha): 1.11 NGR (centre): SK 6721 9988 Settlement: Blaxton


The SMR does not record any monuments or events within the site. One monument is recorded within the buffer zone, the assumed location of Finningley light anti-aircraft gun emplacement, although the exact location is unknown.



The Historic Environment Characterisation records the present character of the site as part of a sewage works, first depicted on the 1948 OS map, with no legibility of the former Parliamentary Enclosure fields. Character zones within the buffer comprise a variety of modern housing, a recreation ground, an airport, agglomerated fields and surveyed enclosure.

The site comprises a thin strip of land, with a large industrial building to the south and small industrial buildings to the north. To the south is a railway line and a modern housing estate and to the west is Station Road. The main settlement of Blaxton is situated to the north, outside of the buffer zone.


On the 1854 OS map the site is shown as a part of a single field. By 1946 two buildings were located on the site, one larger one which was located at the southern site boundary, and a smaller one to the northeast. By 1956 another small building had been added to the northwest of the larger one. The 1962 map shows the small building to the northeast of the main buildings as four separate buildings. In 1985 the large building is labelled Works, the building to the northwest of it is labelled Tank, and a new building was present at the north-western end of the site, labelled Sewage Pumping Unit.

By 1854, the majority of the buffer zone remained undeveloped fields. Blaxton Balk was present to the west of the site, and a small area of trees named Richardson’s Wood was present to the east. By 1855, the Great Northern and Great Eastern Joint Railway had been established to the south of the site. Finningley Station was located to the immediate southwest of the site, along with some other small buildings, likely to be dwellings. A pub and a villa had also been constructed to the south of the site by this time. By 1946, development had occurred on Blaxton Balk immediately to the west of the site. These are unlabelled but judging from their size are probably dwellings and by 1964, two cul-de-sacs had been constructed off the eastern side of Blaxton Balk, around these dwellings. By 1956 a building had been constructed to the south of the site, immediately outside the site boundary, with two small railway lines leading from it to the main line, just to the south. By 1985 Blaxton Balk had been renamed Station Road and some works were marked immediately to the south of the railway line.

Survival:

Although some buildings have been shown to exist on the site from historic mapping, the majority of the site has remained undeveloped since 1854. As such, the potential for survival of buried archaeological remains within the site is considered to be moderate.


Further investigation at the site may be required if the site is brought forward for development.

Significance:

Unknown.




Twenty-first century aerial photographs show the large building at the south end of the site, first shown on the 1946 map, to still be present, along with the smaller structure to the northwest and the structure labelled as a Sewage Pumping Unit on the 1985 map. The structure to the northeast of the main building is no longer present. The majority of the site is used as storage for what appear to be large lorries.

Images from Google Street View show the large building on the site, first depicted on the 1946 map, as barrel-shaped and constructed out of corrugated metal. The size, shape and material of the building (and the building to the immediate south in Site 317) is indicative of an aircraft hangar; it is possible that these structures were re-used from the nearby Finningley Airbase. The sign on the building from the most recent images (2008) reads G. Earnshaw Ltd. Haulage and Storage.

No earthwork features of archaeological interest are visible in the Lidar data.


Google Earth images 2002, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2015. Google Street View 2008. Lidar data file SK6799.



04719 Finningley Light Anti Aircraft Gun Emplacement

A Second World War light anti aircraft gun emplacement at Finningley. The exact location is not known.

Y



HSY4531 Finningley, Auckley & Blaxton Commons, Doncaster


Y

HSY4644 Doncaster Sheffield Airport, Finningley, Doncaster

Airport Y

HSY4782 Wroot Road, Finningley, Doncaster Private Housing Estate Y

HSY4783 Wroot Road, Finningley, Doncaster Regenerated Scrubland Y

HSY4784 Station Road, Blaxton, Doncaster Utilities Y Y

HSY4786 Mosham Road, Blaxton, Doncaster Agglomerated fields Y

HSY5955 Recreation Ground, Finningley, Doncaster Playing Fields/ Recreation ground Y

HSY5965 New housing south of Blaxton, Doncaster Villas/ Detached Housing Y

HSY5970 Housing north of Finningley level crossing, Finningley, Doncaster

Semi-Detached Housing Y

HSY5971 Station and Station Inn, Finningley, Doncaster. Train Station Y



Allocation Reference: 569 Allocation Type: Housing/Employment Site Name: Askern Saw Mills, High St, Askern

Area (Ha): 15.07 NGR (centre): SE 5631 1312 Settlement: Askern





Summary

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



Allocation Reference: 569 Allocation Type: Housing/Employment Site Name: Askern Saw Mills, High St, Askern

Area (Ha): 15.07 NGR (centre): SE 5631 1312 Settlement: Askern


The SMR records one event within the southwest part of the site, a trial trench evaluation at land off Doncaster Road, which established that the whole area evaluated appeared to have been affected by landfill, with no archaeological remains revealed. Two events are recorded within the buffer: a topographic survey at Sutton Common to the immediate south of the site, and a trial trench evaluation off Market Place towards the northern end of the buffer, which revealed no remains of archaeological interest. Two Scheduled Iron Age enclosures at Sutton Common are located 400m to the south of the buffer. These sites had excellent levels of preservation of organic remains, and represent settlement on raised ground within a marsh environment, with evidence for activity from the Mesolithic period onwards, the enclosures being constructed during the 4th century BC.


The Magnesian Limestone in South and West Yorkshire Aerial Photographic Mapping Project did not record any features within the site. In the western part of the buffer, the site of Askern Main Colliery and spoil heaps was recorded, whilst post-medieval ridge and furrow cultivation remains were recorded as cropmarks to the east of the site.

Historic Environment Characterisation records the present character of the site as an industrial area, with the principal complex being a sawmill, and much of the rest of the polygon being scrub vegetation on land previously used for tipping. A small portion at the northern tip of the site extends into an area characterised as Askern Lake public park. The lake may be a naturally-formed water body in an area historically subject to waterlogging, and may have been landscaped during the spa town phase in the 18th to 19th centuries. Further character zones within the buffer include the urban commercial core of Askern to the northwest, which defines the likely extent of the medieval settlement, though most of the current buildings date to the 20th-century redevelopment associated with the colliery; the site of Askern Main Colliery to the west, sunk in 1911 and demolished after 2003; planned miners' housing estates to the west and northeast; miners' welfare sports grounds and allotments to the southwest, and drained wetland/surveyed enclosure at Sutton Common, Askern Common and Rushy Moor to the south and east.

The northern half of the site is currently an industrial estate, with industrial buildings including a saw mill and areas of hardcore surfacing used for parking and storage. The southern part of the site is rough grass and scrub.


The 1854 map showed the site as an area called Askern Mather, which included Mather Pits in the northern part. This area contained an irregularly-shaped pond, which could be an old gravel pit. Mather Dike ran through the centre of the site and along the southern edge. To the south of the dike, the site was depicted as part of several fields, including irregularly-shaped enclosures at the western side, and larger, rectangular fields in the east. The southern end was bounded by the Stream Dike. In 1892, the northern part of the site appeared to be laid out as an area of parkland associated with South Parade Baths, with a scenic walk and seats depicted. A pump was shown at the end of the walk, and a sulphur 'spa well' labelled in this location by 1906. Some field boundaries had been removed in the southern part of the site by the latter date. Much of the site was labelled 'liable to floods' in 1932, with rough pasture and marsh shown around the edges. The southwest end was part of a miners' recreation ground. The spa well was still labelled in 1956, but had gone by 1961, when a depot was shown to the north of the Mather Pits. Ground levels had been raised across the southwest edge, possibly due to tipping of colliery waste, and the sports ground had reduced in size and was outside the site boundary. The depot had been replaced by a saw mill and electronics works by 1977, with a large area to the south, in the former Mather Pits area, shown as a refuse tip. The pond had been reduced to a very small area by that date, and a depot was shown in the area of the former spa well. The pond was no longer shown in 1986, and the whole area to the north of the Mather Drain appeared to be part of the industrial estate, with the area to the south shown as a refuse tip, covering all but the southwest edge of the site by 1990. The Mather Dike was no longer shown running through



the site at that date.

Within the buffer, the 1854 map showed the core of Askern to the north, including several hotels. Askern Lake and a post office were located to the north of the site, and numerous spa baths were depicted to the east of High Street, the South Parade Baths being to the immediate west of the site. Small limestone quarries and a gravel pit were shown to the west of the site. The Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway ran through the buffer to the east of the site. In 1892 a ridge known as Askern Hill was shown to the west. In 1906, and a 'spa hydropathic establishment' was shown within Askern Settlement, becoming the Miners' Welfare Institute by 1932. The South Parade Baths had become a rug works and railway sidings associated with Askern Main Colliery were shown in the western part of the buffer, with spoil tipping to the west of the sidings. The pit-head buildings were outside the buffer to the northwest. Housing had been built to the west of the site as part of the Instoneville colliery village. By 1961, a 'progressive club' was shown to the west of the site, fronting onto High Street, and a playing field was shown to the northwest, between the site and the railway line, with some ground levels apparently raised in this area. A police station was shown to the west in 1977, and a warehouse had been built on the former recreation ground to the southwest by 1990.

Survival:

The majority of the site appears to have been used for tipping in the late 20th century, possibly with colliery spoil deposited to raise ground levels in an area that was subject to flooding. The northern half of the site has also had industrial buildings and depots constructed within it during this period, though the extent of sub-surface disturbance caused by these structures is unclear. An archaeological evaluation in the southwest edge of the site, the area not shown as covered by refuse in 1990, indicated that the whole area had been impacted by the deposition of landfill, and no archaeological remains were found. It is likely that this is the case across the site, and the potential for the recovery of unrecorded archaeological remains is considered to be low.


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

Significance:

Negligible.


The 2002 aerial photograph shows industrial works and depots covering the majority of the site, with hardcore surfacing around modern industrial sheds. The southwest side of the site was rough grass and scrub vegetation, with colliery spoil visible in bare patches of ground. A square pond was shown at the centre-west part of the site. By 2008, an area at the southern tip of the depot had reverted to grass vegetation, though a works building was still shown within this area. There is no Lidar data for this site.


Google Earth coverage 2002, 2008, 2009 & 2015.

RAF/541/31 3407 18-May-1948; SE5513/2 CCX 14249/6 16-Sep-1992.



ESY138 Topographic Survey at Sutton Common 1989 and 1990

Topographic Survey carried out in 1989 and 1990. It is unclear from the sources what data was gathered in 1989 since the resulting contour plan is dated 1990.

Y

ESY499 Archaeological Evaluation on land off Market Place

In January 2006 a programme of trial trenching was undertaken on land near Market Place. No archaeological remains were revealed.

Y



ESY500 Field Evaluation on land off Doncaster Road

In 1996 a programme of trial trenching was undertaken on land adjacent to Doncaster Road in Askern. It appears that the whole area under assessment had been affected by landfill, or the activities associated with landfill. No features or finds of any archaeological interest were made in any of the trenches.

Y Y



HSY364 Askern Mather / Sawmill Other Industry Y Y

HSY365 Askern Lake Public Park Y Y

HSY331 Askern Main Colliery site Deep Shaft Coal Mine Y

HSY353 Sutton Common Drained Wetland Y

HSY354 Askern Town Centre Commercial Core-Urban Y

HSY357 Terraced Housing Instonville, Askern Terraced Housing Y

HSY358 Early social housing in Instonville, Askern Planned Estate (Social Housing) Y

HSY359 Askern Miners Welfare Grounds Playing Fields/ Recreation ground Y

HSY363 Allotment Gardens, Instoneville (2) Allotments Y

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

HSY4333 Burghwallis Common / Rushy Moor, Owston, Doncaster


Y

HSY4370 Former Askern Common, Askern, Doncaster Drained Wetland Y



Allocation Reference: 588 Allocation Type: Housing Site Name: Land off Lock Lane, Thorne






Summary

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



Allocation Reference: 588 Allocation Type: Housing Site Name: Land off Lock Lane



The SMR does not record any monuments or events within the site. Three monuments and one event are recorded within the buffer zone. One of the monuments is also a listed building, Settings Farmhouse. The other monuments are the site of Thorne Old Hall and the surviving section of a bank associated with Vermyden’s drainage programme in the early 17th century. The event comprised an archaeological recording project on remains of a shipyard and wharf features at Union Road.

No Scheduled Monuments or listed buildings are located within the site. One grade II listed building is recorded within the buffer zone, the timber-framed Settings Farmhouse.

The Historic Environment Characterisation records the site and the immediate grounds within the buffer zone as terraced housing, first depicted in 1891, and including some later residences and industrial buildings. There is no legibility of the previous surveyed enclosure landscape. Character zones within the buffer include an area characterised as private housing, developed since 2001 on the site of an early 19th century shipyard. The shipyard area appears to have been converted from common land to a strict new enclosure layout by the enclosure award of 1825.

The site includes three structures/workshops, it appears to have been maintained as a yard.


The 1853 map depicts the site as located within a field immediately east of Sluice Lane. This is one of a number of fields extending south, away from the housing along Back Street (now Queen Street). The site itself was not developed until between 1967-76, at which stage it became a builder’s yard containing three structures. The site is now derelict.

Within the buffer zone the 1853 map depicts Sluice Common to the west of the site. To the south Thorne Union Workhouse is depicted along with Ship Ford. To the north, the site of Old Hall and garden are recorded, located at the northern end of Sluice Lane. By 1892 terraced housing (labelled Christmas Terrace) had developed along the west side of Sluice Lane, opposite the site. Thorne Lock and general details of the Ship Yard are clearly mapped at this date. The Thorne Union Workhouse had been converted to the Poor Law Institution by 1932, and further terrace development had taken place along the west side of Sluice Lane.

Survival:

The site is likely to have been cultivated since its enclosure in the early 19th century until its gradual development in the mid-20th century. This may have impacted upon the preservation of any below-ground remains through truncation. The development of the builder’s yard, in particular the construction of three structures on the site is also likely to have impacted on any below-ground archaeological remains, though the extent of disturbance is dependent on the scale of the foundations laid. The potential for the survival of buried archaeology below the zone impacted by ploughing and construction is considered to be moderate.


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

Significance:

Unknown.




Twenty-first century aerial photographs show the site as a yard containing three structure/possible workshops. The site overgrown, possibly derelict.





Site? Buffer?

1314818 Settings Farmhouse II Y



00321/01 Site of Thorne Old Hall

Old Hall, which bore the date '1573', pulled down in 1860. Site now a building estate.

Y

01539/01 Medieval Timber Framed House, The Settings, Queen Street, Thorne

Timber framed building, The Settings, Queen Street, Thorne - 2 posts with tiebeam and braces survive in west side brick workshop.

Y

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

Post-medieval flood bank. Built as part of Cornelius Vermuyden's project to drain Hatfield Chase, commissioned in 1626. Approximately 2 miles remain of the original 6 mile bank which would have extended from Stainforth to Turnbridge.

Y

ESY259 Archaeological Recording at Union Road

In April 1999 a programme of archaeological recording was undertaken at Union Road in Thorne. This recorded the site of the Boating Dyke, Dunston's Shipyard buildings & features; a dry dock and rope walk, all dating to the 19th and 20th centuries.

Y



HSY5631 Sluice Lane, Thorne, Doncaster Terraced Housing Y Y

HSY4454 Huddle Grounds / Stainforth Ings, Doncaster Drained Wetland Y

HSY4456 Golf Course, South West of Thorne, Doncaster. Golf Course Y

HSY4649 King Edward Road, Thorne, Doncaster Terraced Housing Y

HSY4651 Durham Avenue and Foster Road, Thorne, Doncaster


HSY5602 Historic 'burgage' core, Thorne, Doncaster Vernacular Cottages Y

HSY5604 Site of former Shipyard, Thorne, Doncaster Private Housing Estate Y

HSY5605 Thorne Union Workhouse (Sea Cadets), Thorne, Doncaster

Workhouse/ Orphanage /Children's Home

Y

HSY5608 Ashburn Road, Thorne, Doncaster Private Housing Estate Y

HSY5624 The Delves Fishponds, Thorne, Doncaster Artificial Lake Y



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


HSY5627 Stanilands and Blue Water Marinas, Thorne, Doncaster

Canal or River Wharf Y

HSY5630 Sluice Common, Thorne, Doncaster Surveyed Enclosure (Parliamentary/ Private)

Y

HSY5661 Queens Court, Thorne, Doncaster Private Housing Estate Y

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