Archaeological Excavations at Holme Hall Quarry, South Yorkshire.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Morris, Francis M.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (184 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bicester : Archaeopress, 2025.

Summary:

This volume documents the results from large-scale archaeological investigations at Holme Hall Quarry on the Magnesian Limestone ridge, South Yorkshire. The main occupation of the site occurred during the Roman period when two rural farmsteads were constructed and a field system with associated droveways and enclosures imposed across the landscape.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright page

Contents Page

List of Figures

Chapter 6 Summary and discussion

Fig. 6.1. Archaeological phased plan of the Holme Hall Quarry excavations of 2015 and 2019-22.

Fig. 6.2. Distribution of prehistoric chipped lithics and unworked flints in the northern part of the Holme Hall Quarry site (Cockhill East and West), showing finds from the 2019-22 excavations and the fieldwalking surveys of 1993-4 and 2015 (cf. Figs 2.1

Fig. 6.3. Reconstruction drawing: looking south over the field system and associated droveways and enclosures at Holme Hall Quarry in the mid 2nd century AD (by Ada Lewkowicz).

Fig. 6.4. Distribution of Late Iron Age to Roman field system types in the region around Holme Hall Quarry, showing Roman roads, forts, villas and rural sites named in the text (after Roberts et al. 2010, Illus. 26 and 88 with additions). Rural sites name

Fig. 6.5. Plan showing cropmark data (magenta) for Late Iron Age to Roman field systems in the area around Holme Hall Quarry (2015-22 site boundary marked in red, with excavated field system in black). The possible villa at Conisbrough Parks Farm is marke

Chapter 5 The excavations of 2020-22

Fig. 5.1. Archaeological phased plan of the 2020-22 excavations at Holme Hall Quarry.

Fig. 5.2. Archaeological phased plan of the south-east part of the 2020-22 excavation area in parts of fields N1 and N2/N3.

Fig. 5.3. Archaeological phased plan of the north-east part of the 2020-22 excavation area in parts of fields N1, N2/N3 and N5/N6.

Fig. 5.4. Archaeological phased plan of the north-west part of the 2020-22 excavation area in parts of fields N2/N3, N4 and N5/N6.

Fig. 5.5. Archaeological phased plan of the south-west part of the 2020-22 excavation area in parts of fields N2/N3, N4 and N5/N6.

Fig. 5.6. Aerial view of field N1 after topsoil stripping in 2020, looking south. The ditches of the Late Iron Age to Roman north-south droveway can just be made out running down the centre of the field (from bottom to top), whilst the dark outline of a p

Fig. 5.7. Aerial view of the east part of field N2/N3 after topsoil stripping in 2021, looking north-east.

Fig. 5.8. Aerial view of the west part of the site after topsoil stripping in 2022, looking south-west over fields N5/N6 (foreground, centre), N4 (right) and N2/N3 (top). The green area in the centre of the stripped fields is an infilled post-medieval qua

Fig. 5.9. North-west-facing section of prehistoric palaeochannel/palaeovalley F1391. Scales 2 x 2 m in 0.5 m graduations. The line of the top of this section in marked in red next to the L7 label on Fig. 5.10.

Fig. 5.10. Plan showing the relation of prehistoric chipped lithics (from both excavations and fieldwalking, cf. Fig. 6.2) and Middle Iron Age pits [1033] and [3751] to the two main palaeochannels (C3 in field N2/N3 and L7 in field N1) as recorded in geop

Fig. 5.11. Plans of Middle Iron Age pits [1033] in field N1 and [3751] in field N2/N3. Features near [3751] are also shown

some of these may also be Middle Iron Age in date.

Fig. 5.12. North-facing section of Middle Iron Age pit [1033] containing burnt material. Scale 0.3 m in 0.1 m graduations.

Fig. 5.13. South-east-facing section of Middle Iron Age pit [3751]. Scale 1 m in 0.5 m graduations.

Fig. 5.14. Looking north at the south terminus of Late Iron Age to Roman field ditch segment F2057, [1530], in field N1, with recut [1532] to west (left). Scale 1 m in 0.5 m graduations.

Fig. 5.17. Plan of the Late Iron Age to Roman D-shaped Enclosure 3 in field N2/N3 (for sections, see Fig. 5.18).

Fig. 5.18. Sections of the Late Iron Age to Roman D-shaped Enclosure 3 and of nearby field ditches (for section lines, see Fig. 5.17).

Fig. 5.19. Aerial view of Late Iron Age to Roman D-shaped Enclosure 3 following topsoil stripping and under initial excavation, looking south-east.

Fig. 5.20. Late Iron Age to Roman D-shaped Enclosure 3, east-north-east-facing section of north ditch F4344, [2309]. Scale 0.3 m in 0.1 m graduations.

Fig. 5.21. Late Iron Age to Roman D-shaped Enclosure 3, west-south-west-facing section of curvilinear inner ditch segment F2805, [2267]. Scale 1 m in 0.5 m graduations.

Fig. 5.22. Plan of the Late Iron Age to Roman sub-circular Enclosure 4 (ditches F2789 and F2790) and Roman quarry (F2794) in field N5/N6 (for sections, see Fig. 5.23).

Fig. 5.23. Sections of the Late Iron Age to Roman sub-circular Enclosure 4 and Roman quarry and of nearby field ditches (for section lines, see Fig. 5.22).

Fig. 5.24. West-south-west-facing section of Late Iron Age to Roman sub-circular Enclosure 4 ditch F2790, [2360]. Scale 1 m in 0.5 m graduations.

Fig. 5.25. Working shot, looking south-east over part of Roman quarry pit F2794 in Enclosure 4 during excavation.

Fig. 5.26 (above). Plan of the Late Iron Age to Roman horseshoe-shaped Enclosure 5 in fields N2/N3 and N5/N6 (for sections, see Fig. 5.27).

Fig. 5.27. Sections of the Late Iron Age to Roman horseshoe-shaped Enclosure 5 and of nearby field ditches (for section lines, see Fig. 26).

Fig. 5.28. Working shot, looking south-west over the east part of the Late Iron Age to Roman horseshoe-shaped Enclosure 5, showing a possible entrance into the north-east part of the enclosure, represented by a gap between excavated ditch segments F4333 a.

Fig. 5.29. Late Iron Age to Roman horseshoe-shaped Enclosure 5, west-facing section in western terminus of north outer ditch segment F4333, [4155]. Scale 1 m in 0.5 m graduations.

Fig. 5.30. Late Iron Age to Roman horseshoe-shaped Enclosure 5, looking south-south-west at outer ditch segment F4334, [2750], showing limestone rubble in fill. Scale 1 m in 0.5 m graduations.

Fig. 5.31. Late Iron Age to Roman horseshoe-shaped Enclosure 5, east-facing section of inner ditch segment F4329, [4223]. Scale 2 m in 0.5 m graduations.

Fig. 5.32. Plan of the Late Iron Age to Roman rectilinear enclosure or small field F4312 (Enclosure 6) in field N2/N3 (for sections, see Fig. 5.33).

Fig. 5.33. Sections of the Late Iron Age to Roman rectilinear enclosure or small field F4312 (Enclosure 6) and of nearby features (for section lines, see Fig. 5.32).

Fig. 5.34. Aerial view of Late Iron Age to Roman rectilinear enclosure or small field F4312 (Enclosure 6), looking north.

Fig. 5.35. Late Iron Age to Roman rectilinear enclosure or small field F4312 (Enclosure 6), east-facing section of its south ditch, [3816]. Scale 1 m in 0.5 m graduations.

Fig. 5.36. Plan showing possible Roman posthole structure F2045 in field N5/N6 (for location, see Fig. 5.3).

Fig. 5.37. Plans and sections of early medieval features in field N2/N3.

Fig. 5.38. Looking north at an early medieval pit containing burnt material, [2513], in field N2/N3. Scale 2 m in 0.5 m graduations.

Fig. 5.39. Looking east at an early medieval pit containing charcoal, [3697], in field N2/N3. Scale 1 m in 0.5 m graduations.

Fig. 5.40. Looking south-east at mid nineteenth-century lime kiln F1049 in field N1.

Fig. 5.41. Looking north-west at the heat-affected interior of mid nineteenth-century lime kiln F1049, showing the archway of the stoke-hole.

Fig. 5.42. Roman pottery: black-burnished ware vessels.

Fig. 5.43. Roman pottery: Dales ware vessels.

Fig. 5.44. Roman pottery: Derbyshire ware vessels.

Fig. 5.45. Late Iron Age/Roman pottery: Trent Valley/Lincolnshire Iron Age/native tradition vessels.

Fig. 5.46. Roman pottery: mortaria.

Fig. 5.47. Roman pottery: oxidised wares.

Fig. 5.48. Roman pottery: greyware necked jars, jars and a flagon.

Fig. 5.49. Roman pottery: South Yorkshire greyware necked jar and wide mouth jars.

Fig. 5.50. Roman pottery: South Yorkshire greyware beakers, bowls, dishes, lid and counter.

Fig. 5.51. Stamp on a ?South Gaulish samian sherd from pit [478] located within rectilinear Enclosure 2b in field N7.

Fig. 5.52. Rubbing of a sherd of decorated Central Gaulish (Lezoux) samian (Drag. 37 bowl) from late Roman pit [470] located within rectilinear Enclosure 2b in field N7.

Fig. 5.53. Date distribution of Roman pottery vessels with a restricted date range by rim equivalent (RE) from the Holme Hall Quarry excavations of 2019-22.

Fig. 5.54. Date distribution of Roman pottery from field N7.

Fig. 5.55. Date distribution of Roman pottery with a restricted date range from field N5/N6.

Fig. 5.56. Date distribution of Roman pottery with a restricted date range from field N2/N3.

Fig. 5.57. Distribution of prehistoric chipped lithics found in the excavations of 2019-22.

Fig. 5.58. Mesolithic flints recovered from the 2020-22 excavations: end scraper (far left), blade fragments and microlith (far right).

Fig. 5.59. Roman coin (SF 84), a copper-alloy radiate of Claudius II, AD 268-70, from the fill of late Roman pit [480] located within rectilinear Enclosure 2b in field N7.

Fig. 5.60. Iron Age to Roman copper-alloy spiral ring (SF 4) from north ditch segment F338 of Roman rectilinear Enclosure 2b in field N7.

Fig. 5.61. Late Iron Age to Roman copper-alloy terminal (SF 9) found in the north ditch of a Late Iron Age/Roman east-west droveway in field N5/N6.

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ISBN:

9781803279268

1803279265

OCLC:

1512378287