eltonioni wrote:If they were on the moors I'd say marks from heather burning or mowing to bring on the new growth for birds. Do you lowland dwellers have some equivalent?
I may well be wrong but they don't look like bone digger trenches to me. They are mahoosive marks and if an archaeologist asked me to do so much random speculating I'd tell them to take a hike. On the other hand, some developers don't know what they are doing and take on sites where they let the local council get away with their pointless job creation schemes for otherwise unemployed archaeology (under)graduates.
Just goes to show how much I know.
Bloor Homes - 210 homes, archaeological investigation.
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his Written Scheme of Investigation (WSI) has been prepared by Archaeology South-East (ASE) on behalf of RPS for an archaeological evaluation at land south of Beyton Road, Thurston, Suffolk (Figure 1; TL 9193 6476).
1.2 The site comprises an irregular parcel of land measuring 7.4ha in extent under arable cultivation located at the southwest fringe of Thurston, near Bury St Edmunds. The site is bound to the north by Beyton Road, to the west by a wooded area, and to the south and east by unnamed road.
1.3 This WSI is for archaeological trial trench evaluation comprising seventy-four 30m x 2m trenches at base (Figure 2). This amounts to a targeted 5% sample of the development area.
From the report to planning, the desktop study revealed no archeology on site and a geophys survey has no indication of archeology. No idea if anything was subsequently found because (as usual) it looks like the report is kept for academic eyes only.
This is the kind of **** we have to put up with and that homebuyers end up paying for.
But, your mystery is solved Rob
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