EDO4251 - Fordington Farm Evaluation Trench W

The Duchy of Cornwall commissioned Wessex Archaeology to conduct an archaeological evaluation of land to the south and west of Fordington Farm , prior to the sale of the land for development. The work took place between May and October 1986. The area of a proposed new sports field was subject to geophysical survey, earthwork survey, testpitting and evaluation excavation. The remains of a Bronze Age round barrow of three identified phases was identified together with a number of possible Roman features and medieval field earthworks. Trench W measured 10m x 1m and aligned N-S and located east of the round barrow on the predicted line of a Romano-British droveway seen in Trenches F and G, and the Alington Avenue excavations. A pair of gulleys were discovered along the expected line and the same distance apart (6m). There were no datable finds but there are no field boundaries recorded in this area on the 1779 survey of the manor of Fordington.