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Allocation Reference: 201 Allocation Type: Housing Site Name: Poor's Land, Hurst Lane, Auckley

Area (Ha): 1.62 NGR (centre): SK 6473 9916 Settlement: Auckley

Allocation Recommendations

Archaeological significance of site Unknown

Historic landscape significance Uncertain

Suitability of site for allocation Uncertain archaeological constraint

Summary

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



Allocation Reference: 201 Allocation Type: Housing Site Name: Poor's Land, Hurst Lane, Auckley

Area (Ha): 1.62 NGR (centre): SK 6473 9916 Settlement: Auckley

Site assessment Known assets/character:

The SMR does not record any features or events within the site. Within the buffer, four findspots and three events are recorded. The findspots are all of Roman to medieval pottery and a Roman brooch found in ploughsoil in fields to the northwest of the site. The events comprise evaluations associated with Robin Hood airport business park, surrounding the site to the north, east and south. The evaluations included geophysical survey in the area to the north and east of the site, with possible pits and a curvilinear ditch identified at the eastern side of the survey area, possibly outside the buffer zone. Geophysical survey and evaluation along the proposed access route identified ridge and furrow cultivation remains in the area closest to the site.

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

The Magnesian Limestone in South and West Yorkshire Aerial Photographic Mapping Project did not record any features within the site. One area of earthwork ridge and furrow was recorded in the southern part of the buffer on a photograph dated to 1948.

The Historic Environment Characterisation records the present character of the majority of the site and northern part of the buffer as surveyed enclosure, laid out by Parliamentary Award in 1778 on former commons. The southern edge of the site is part of an area of post-medieval assarts probably established during the 18th century, that extends through most of the southern part of the buffer on a northwest-southeast alignment. There is no legibility of the former characters of common land and ancient woodland. Within the buffer, there is modern planned social housing at the northern edge, drained wetland at the northwest, and an area of ancient woodland at the southern edge. Two areas of post-medieval plantation extend into the southeast and southwest edges of the buffer.

The site is currently two fields north of the access route to Robin Hood Airport business park. The southern field is small and triangular and in use as rough grassland; the northern field is at least periodically in arable usage.

Cartographic/historic land use assessment:

The 1854 and 1893 OS maps show the site as a single L-shaped field labelled 'Poor’s Land', with three stones shown on a northwest to southeast alignment across the field, possibly old boundary markers. The name of the field suggests it was charity land. There were no changes by 1962, though a footpath was shown running through the field on a diagonal angle by that date. This had been changed to run along the current boundary between the two fields by 1992.

The 1854 and 1893 OS maps depicted the area surrounding the site as fields, with Hurst Lane shown running through the area on a north-south alignment. Several small areas of woodland were shown at the edges of the buffer. No substantial changes were shown on subsequent maps to 1956, though Finningley Airfield was shown outside the buffer to the east in 1956, and had probably been established during the Second World War. By 1962, Poplars Farm had been constructed to the south of the site, and farm buildings were also shown in the north and northwest part of the buffer. By 1992, there had been some housing development at the northern end of the buffer.

Survival:

The site has been in use as farmland since the late 18th century, and this may have caused some truncation of sub-surface deposits through ploughing. Below the plough zone, the potential for the survival of buried remains is considered to be moderate. The southern small field may have been impacted by construction of the adjacent access road, but the extent of likely disturbance is unknown.

Further investigations:

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



Significance:

Unknown.

Aerial Photographs & Lidar Summary:

Aerial photographs from 2002 to 2005 show the site as two fields, in arable cultivation. By 2007, the access route for the business park had been defined but not constructed. It had been built by 2008, severely truncating the southern field, with the road’s verge occupying the southern edge of the field. The southern field has subsequently been shown as rough grassland, whilst the northern field continued in a mixture of arable and pasture use.

Lidar data does not show any earthwork features of archaeological interest within the site.

Photograph/Lidar references:

Google Earth: 2002, 2003, 2008, 2009 & 2015. Google Street View 2012. Lidar data tiles DTM 1m.

Photos transcribed by the Magnesian Limestone Project:

Ridge and furrow earthworks: RAF/541/35 3040 19-May-1948.

SMR Record/event Reference ID

Name Details Site? Buffer?

00442/01 Roman pottery from Hanging Carr

Roman pottery from ploughed field south of Hanging Carr. Y

00442/02 Medieval pottery from Hanging Carr

Medieval pottery from ploughed field south of Hanging Carr. Y

00973/01 Roman pottery, Auckley

2nd century Roman pottery recovered through ploughing. Y

02821/01 Romano-British Brooch Find, Auckley

Romano-British brooch (1st century AD) found in 1987 after removal of sugar beet.

Y

04303/01 Roman Pottery, Auckley

A quantity of 2nd century Roman pottery found during ploughing.

Y

ESY285 Geophysical Survey for the Robin Hood Airport Access Route

In April 2006 a geophysical survey was undertaken for the access route for Robin Hood airport. The results indicated the presence of anomalies likely to reflect ridge and furrow cultivation.

Y

ESY632 Archaeological Evaluation Robin Hood Airport Business Park, Rail Station and Access Route

A programme of archaeological field evaluation was undertaken at two sites, off Hurst Lane (Access Route) and Hayfield Lane (Rail and Business park site) in the vicinity of Robin Hood Airport near Doncaster, South Yorkshire. A ditch of unknown date was recorded within the Hayfield Lane Site and some possible remnant furrows were recorded at the Hurst Lane Site.

Y

ESY1376 Geophysical survey, Hurst Lane, Hayfield Green

Geophysical survey was undertaken on a plot of land at Hurst Lane. Possible archaeological features were concentrated at the eastern part of the site, and consisted of possible pits and a curvilinear ditch.

Y



SMR Historic Environment Characterisation Reference ID


HSY4570 Hurst Lane, Auckley, Doncaster Assarts Y Y

HSY4612 Hayfield Lane, Auckley, Doncaster Surveyed Enclosure (Parliamentary/ Private)

Y Y

HSY4489 Finningley Big Wood, Finningley, Doncaster Ancient Woodland Y

HSY4544 Savage Wood, Auckley, Doncaster Plantation Y

HSY4545 The Carrs, Auckley, Doncaster Drained Wetland Y

HSY4575 Mill Fields, Auckley, Doncaster Surveyed Enclosure (Parliamentary/ Private)

Y

HSY4610 Marr Flatts Plantation, Auckley, Doncaster Plantation Y

HSY4647 Elm Road, Finningley, Doncaster Planned Estate (Social Housing) Y


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Allocation Reference: 202 Allocation Type: Housing Site Name: North of Lands Lane, West of Roman Rig

Area (Ha): 0.273 NGR (centre): SE 5268 0808 Settlement: Adwick le Street/Woodlands


Archaeological significance of site Unknown/Negligible

Historic landscape significance Negligible

Suitability of site for allocation No/Uncertain constraint

Summary

Within site Within buffer zone Scheduled Monument 1 Listed Building - 1 SMR record/event 1 event 3 records/9 events Cropmark/Lidar evidence No Yes Cartographic features of interest No No Estimated sub-surface disturbance Extensive n/a



Allocation Reference: 202 Allocation Type: Housing Site Name: North of Lands Lane, West of Roman Rig

Area (Ha): 0.273 NGR (centre): SE 5268 0808 Settlement: Adwick le Street/Woodlands


The SMR records one event within the site, a geophysical survey. The survey covered the site and extended throughout the northwest of the buffer, locating a number of features previously identified on aerial photographs including field systems, an enclosure and double-ditched 'droveway'. Eight further events are three monuments in the buffer zone are recorded. The events relate to geophysical surveys and trail trenches, all located within the western half of the buffer. The results of these investigations recorded areas of Romano-British linear boundaries with possible rectilinear enclosures, possibly forming a 'ladder settlement' arrangement. Finds recovered from some of the excavations included Romano-British pottery provisionally dated to between the 1st and 2nd centuries AD. The three monuments within the buffer zone are the Woodland Colliery Village, a model village constructed in the early 20th century for miners at the nearby Brodsworth Colliery, located at the southeast end of the buffer; and a Roman road recorded as both a supposed route from Lincoln to York and associated remains identified from survey and excavation.

There is one Scheduled Monument within the buffer, the Roman Ridge road, located to the immediate east of the site boundary and extending northwards. There is one grade II listed building within the buffer, a pair of semi-detached houses forming part of Woodlands model village, built in 1908 and located at the southeast end of the buffer.

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

The Historic Environment Characterisation records the present character of the site as a modern scrap yard with no legibility of earlier surveyed enclosure landscape. The northeast and southeast of the buffer is characterised as a planned estate of Woodlands colliery village, built with garden village principles and continuing the geometric layout of the earlier phases of social housing built to the west of Adwick le Street, to Percy Bond Houfton's designs. This area is now part of Woodlands conservation area. Within the south of the buffer, the landscape is characterised as the site of Brodsworth Colliery Pit Head, a landscaped former coal mine now regenerating as meadows and woodlands, with partial legibility of the former extractive site. To the west of the site is the RedHouse Interchange, a commercial development with no legibility of the former enclosed fields.

The site currently comprises a single parcel of land, with modern fence boundaries.


On the 1851 OS map, the southern part of the site was depicted as a small limestone quarry. By 1892, the quarry had expanded into the central area of the site. By 1906, only a small section at the northern end of the site was not encompassed by the quarry, with trees shown at the southern end. By 1930, the quarry appears to have been infilled, and by 1948 the site was empty. This remained the case until 1965, by which time a building stood at the western end of the site. By 1971, another building had been constructed to the north of the first, and the site was labelled Water Works. The buildings were still shown on the 1982 map.

Within the buffer, in 1851 the majority of the area comprised fields. The site is located at the crossroads of Long Lands Lane, Ridge Balk, and the Roman Road. The Roman Ridge road is clearly marked on all OS maps from 1851. There was little change until 1906, when an area of woodland was shown to the south of the site, labelled Terry Holt. By 1930, a water works had been built to the east of the site, on the opposite side of the Roman Road, and Brodsworth Main Colliery had been established to the south of the site. To the southeast, the Woodlands colliery village had been built, with further houses constructed to the northeast of the site by 1961, and allotments established to the northwest of the site.



Survival:

The presence of a limestone quarry in the southern half of the site from at least 1851 until the early 20th century means that the potential for any buried archaeology in this part of the site is considered to be negligible. Historic maps indicate that the quarry did not extend into the northern half of the site, although a building was present at the western side of this area from 1965, hence the survival of unrecorded buried archaeology in this area is considered to be low. The potential for the survival of buried remains in the north-eastern tip of the site, which butts up to the Scheduled Roman Ridge road, is considered to be moderate.


Whilst the majority of the site has no archaeological potential, its proximity to the Roman Ridge road Scheduled Monument means that further investigation of the undisturbed northeast tip of the site may be required if the site is brought forward for development. A consideration of the impact of development on the setting of the Scheduled Monument is also likely to be required.

Significance:

Unknown.


The buildings present on the 1982 OS map in the north-western area of the site were not present on 2002 Google Earth images, although their footprints are visible, indicating that they were demolished not long before 2002. A building was under construction in the southwest corner of the site, completed by 2003. By 2008, two small buildings, which appear to be corrugated metal, had been constructed to the north of the building. All of these buildings remain extant on the 2015 image.

The extent of the 19th and early 20th century quarrying on the site is visible within the Lidar data. The Iron Age to Roman cropmarks identified from 1960s aerial photographs within the buffer zone do not survive as earthworks.

Photograph references:

Google Earth images 2002, 2003, 2007, 2008. Lidar data tile SE5208 DTM 1m.

SE5208/2 NMR 723/202-203 09-Jul-1974.

Statutory Designations Reference ID

Name Designation/ Grade

Site? Buffer?

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

1314857 23 and 25, West Avenue II Y



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

Stretches of Roman road (Doncaster to Castleford) used as a bridle path. Two phases of the road were identified in excavations in 1958. 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

Suggested route of a 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

Y



Doncaster Castleford.

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

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

ESY342 Geophysical Survey at Adwick Le Street

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

Y

ESY343 Excavation of Enclosure 8 on Land at Redhouse Farm

An excavation at Redhouse Farm in 2004 investigated an enclosure identified in previous investigations. It was characterised as a Romano-British sub-rectangular enclosure linked to additional features forming a 'ladder settlement' arrangement. Pottery recovered from the site is provisionally dated to between the 1st and 2nd centuries AD.

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

ESY986 Survey of Roman Ridge Cycle path route

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

Y

ESY1144 Watching brief on site of Unit 6, Redhouse, Adwick le Street

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

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 were 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

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

Y



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

HSY4154 Redhouse Interchange, Brodsworth, Doncaster Warehousing Y

HSY4891 Site of Pit Head, Brodsworth Colliery, Reclaimed Coal Mine Y

HSY4894 Woodlands (North of Church), Doncaster Planned Estate (Social Housing) Y

HSY4905 Woodlands (north), Adwick upon Street Planned Estate (Social Housing) Y



Allocation Reference: 212 Allocation Type: Housing Site Name: Lords Head Lane, Warmsworth

Area (Ha): 18.76 NGR (centre): SK 5472 9986 Settlement: Warmsworth





Summary

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



Allocation Reference: 212 Allocation Type: Housing Site Name: Lords Head Lane, Warmsworth

Area (Ha): 18.76 NGR (centre): SK 5472 9986 Settlement: Warmsworth


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

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

The Magnesian Limestone in South and West Yorkshire Aerial Photographic Mapping Project recorded earthwork ridge and furrow within the site in the 1940s-50s, though Lidar data indicates that this has since been plough-levelled. Ridge and furrow, the site of a military camp/workers’ hostel and a spoilheap were recorded in the buffer.

The Historic Environment Characterisation records the present character of the site as Agglomerated Fields, where boundary removal has led to the loss of the former character of strip fields deriving from open fields. Character zones within the buffer are defined as Spoilheap, Utilities, Surveyed Enclosure (Parliamentary/Private), Private Housing Estate, Playing Fields/Recreation Ground, Allotments, Other Industry, Cemetery, Semi-Detached Housing, Public Park, Terraced Housing and Villas/Detached Housing.

One area of historic landfill is recorded extending into the western edge of the buffer, a tip site within a former clay pit.

The site currently comprises three fields in arable cultivation, with hedged boundaries. It is divided into two parcels by Lord’s Head Lane.


The site formed part of several fields to the west of an area labelled ‘Beck Field’ on the 1854 OS map. Warmsworth Beck, Lord’s Head Lane and a track leading from Common Lane extended into the site at that date. A rectangular pond was shown in the central part of the site. Further ponds and a pump were shown within the site on the 1892 OS map. Several of the site’s 19th-century field boundaries remained extant in 1966, but had been amalgamated by 1972. Other than the infilling of the main pond, no changes were shown within the site on the 1992 OS map.

Fields, Common Lane, Lord Head Lane, Edlington Lane, Beck Field, Warmsworth Beck and a limestone quarry were shown within the buffer zone on the 1854 OS map. A well was marked on the 1892 map. Substantial development had taken place by the time of the 1930 map, with the LNER railway, Warmsworth Goods Station, Common Lane Bridge, Lord Head Lane Bridge, allotments, a cemetery, sports pitches, housing, a sewage works with filter beds, sedimentation tanks, humus tanks and an engine house shown within the buffer. Further housing had been built by 1962, with more shown in 1967. Warmsworth Park, Warmsworth Playing Field and its pavilion, and a large spoilheap were also shown in the buffer. Further housing was shown within the buffer on the 1987 OS map.

Survival:

The site has been fields since at least 1854. Arable cultivation has levelled the ridge and furrow earthworks previously recorded within the site, and may have caused some truncation to sub-surface deposits. Below the plough zone, the potential for unrecorded buried archaeological remains is considered to moderate.



Significance:

Unknown.




Twenty-first century aerial photographs show the site as fields. Lidar data does not show any potential archaeological features within the site, with the ridge and furrow recorded by the Magnesian Limestone Aerial Mapping Project not visible as earthworks.


Google Earth: 2002, 2003, 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2015. Bing Maps: 2015. Lidar data tile SK5499 and SE5409 DTM 1m.

RAF/CPE/UK/1880 2098 06-Dec-1946; RAF/CPE/UK/2011 5384 16-Apr-1947; RAF/58/899 5145 19-Jun-1952; OS/89258 0010 11-Jun-1989.



HSY5580 Common Lane, Warmsworth, Doncaster Agglomerated fields Y Y

HSY4363 Lord's Head Lane, New Edlington, Doncaster Spoil Heap Y

HSY5578 Warmsworth Sewage Works, Warmsworth, Doncaster

Utilities Y

HSY5579 Common Lane, Warmsworth, Doncaster Surveyed Enclosure (Parliamentary/ Private)

Y

HSY5581 Aviemore Road, Balby, Doncaster Private Housing Estate Y

HSY5613 Miners Welfare Ground, Edlington, Doncaster Playing Fields/ Recreation ground Y

HSY5640 Stavely Street, Edlington, Doncaster Allotments Y

HSY5656 'Cricket Estate', Edlington, Doncaster Private Housing Estate Y

HSY5658 Glebe Street, Warmsworth, Doncaster Other Industry Y

HSY5660 Edlington Lane, Warmsworth, Doncaster Cemetery Y

HSY5664 Edlington Lane, Edlington, Doncaster Other Industry Y

HSY5665 Edlington Lane, Warmsworth, Doncaster Semi-Detached Housing Y

HSY5666 Ash Dale Road, Warmsworth, Doncaster Private Housing Estate Y

HSY5667 Edlington allotments Allotments Y

HSY5672 Warmsworth Park, Doncaster Public Park Y

HSY5673 Edlington Lane, Doncaster Terraced Housing Y

HSY5675 Sheffield Road, Warmsworth, Doncaster Semi-Detached Housing Y

HSY5681 Warmsworth Playing field, Doncaster Playing Fields/ Recreation ground Y

HSY5988 Infill around Warmsworth village core, Doncaster

Villas/ Detached Housing Y



Allocation Reference: 213 Allocation Type: Housing Site Name: Mill Lane, Warmsworth

Area (Ha): 40.55 NGR (centre): SE 5437 0134 Settlement: Doncaster Urban Area





Summary

Within site Within buffer zone Scheduled Monument - - Listed Building - 2 SMR record/event 1 records 12 records/10 events Cropmark/Lidar evidence Yes Yes Cartographic features of interest No Yes Estimated sub-surface disturbance Low n/a



Allocation Reference: 213 Allocation Type: Housing Site Name: Mill Lane, Warmsworth



The SMR records the findspot of a Roman cinerary urn within the site. Three findspots, eight monuments and ten events are recorded in the buffer zone: two Roman coins; beehive querns; the course of a possible Roman road and probable evidence for the road on a slightly different alignment; a cave or grotto; Sprotbrough Park; lime kilns; a possible fulling mill; a corn mill and an icehouse.

There are no Scheduled Monuments or listed buildings within the site. Two grade II listed buildings are recorded in the buffer, with part of a third, Sprotborough Hall Stables, extending into the northern edge of the buffer, though the point for this building is outside the buffer.

The Magnesian Limestone in South and West Yorkshire Aerial Photographic Mapping Project recorded probable Iron Age to Roman ditches within the site. Levelled ridge and furrow and post-medieval quarries were recorded in the buffer zone, the former now built over.

The Historic Environment Characterisation records the present character of the site as Agglomerated Fields produced by late 20th-century loss of strip enclosure boundaries, with no legibility of the former open field character. The eastern boundary of this area is former by the 1970s A1 (Doncaster Bypass) and Valley Floor Meadows, where late 20th-century drainage and flood protection works seem to have resulted in the loss of strip field boundaries. Character zones within the buffer are defined as Villas/Detached Housing, Ancient Woodland, Playing Fields/Recreation Ground, Private Housing Estate, Landfill, Quarry, Agglomerated Fields, Valley Floor Meadows, Semi-Natural Woodland, Artificial Lake, Planned Housing Estate (Social), Cemetery, Public Park and Water-Powered Site.

Two areas of historic landfill are recorded within the buffer, a former railway cutting to the southeast and a site named ‘Sprotbrough Boat’ at the eastern edge for which there is no further information.

The site is currently several large fields mainly in arable cultivation, with hedged boundaries. A small area at the northern side of the site is in use as pasture.


The site contained several fields at the time of the 1854 OS map. These were parts of Don Field, Church Field and Tenter Field. The latter, with its name derived from the tenter racks on which cloth was hung out to dry, suggests that cloth-making may have taken place close to the site. A possible fulling mill has been recorded within the buffer on the SMR. A bridle road crossed the site in 1854. Several of the mid-19th-century field boundaries had been amalgamated by 1892. While little further change had taken place within the site by 1966, more field boundaries had been removed by 1980.

Within the buffer, the 1854 map showed Sprotbrough Hall, Sprotbrough Park, St. Mary’s Church, pleasure grounds, Engine Wood, Church Rein wood, the River Don, the Green Elms and Half Moon Inn public houses, an engine house, Sprotbrough Lock, woods, fields, a towing path, limestone quarries, the South Yorkshire, Doncaster & Goole Railway, St. Peter’s Church, Mill Lane and the Tenter Lane bridle road. In 1892 Sprotbrough Boat, Tinston Lock and an old quarry were depicted, with Station Bridge, Warmsworth reservoir, Guest Bridge and Guest Lane shown in 1904. Levitt Hagg Wood, housing, allotments, the LNER railway line, St. Dominick’s Crag, an icehouse, a cave, Broad Walk and the Great Elm were depicted in 1930. The Doncaster Bypass and the Don Bridge had been built by 1965, with a flood defence scheme constructed by 1980. Further housing was shown on the 1994 OS map.

Survival:

The site has been fields since at least 1854. Arable cultivation may have caused some truncation of sub-surface deposits, though below the plough zone, the potential for buried archaeological remains is moderate to high. A Roman burial urn has been found within the site, suggesting there is the potential for further Roman remains to



survive. A small area of probable ridge and furrow earthworks survives in the northern part of the site.


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

Significance:

Unknown. Remains associated with Roman activity, including burials, could be of Local to Regional significance depending on their extent, nature and condition. Ridge and furrow earthworks are likely to be considered of Local archaeological significance.


The 21st-century aerial photographs show the site as fields. Lidar data shows a small area of possible upstanding ridge and furrow in the northern part of the site as well as part of a flood defence bank which is likely to be of relatively recent origin.


Google Earth: 2002, 2003, 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2015. Lidar data tiles SE5400, SE5300 and SE5401 1m DTM.



Site? Buffer?

1192826 Remains of Sprotbrough Pump situated to north of Sprotbrough Lock

II Y

1286095 Bridge across River Don II Y



00464/01 Site of St Peter's Church, Warmsworth

Site of a medieval to nineteenth century church, partially excavated in the 1970s.

Y

00662/01 AE3 Constantine I Coin Find, Warmsworth

AE3 of Constantine I. Found in the garden of 45 Tenter Lane, Warmsworth in 1962.

Y

01069/01 Two Iron Age Beehive Quern topstones found at Riverside Drive, Doncaster

2 beehive gritstone querns in the garden of 39 Riverside Drive 1968.

Y

01858/01 Roman Coin, Waverley School Doncaster

Bronze coin of Constantine I, ploughed up at Waverley School. Y

01859/01 Possible stretch of Roman Road, near Oswin Avenue School, Doncaster

Possible Roman road on Church Lane/ Littlemoor Lane alignment. In part obscured by railway but traces of agger visible near Oswin Avenue School

Y

02318/01 St Dominick's Crag Post-Medieval Grotto, Sprotbrough

'Cave' or 'Grotto' 18th(?) and 19th century. Y



03728/01 Sprotbrough Park Surviving features consist of old hawthorn trees (possible remains of hedgerows) and a ring of field maples (mature) forming sheltered areas for stock (SE 54770206).

Y

04170/01 Roman Cinerary Urn Find, Warmsworth

A Roman cinerary urn found in 1909. Y

04172/03 Levitt Hagg Quarry Lime Kilns, Warmsworth

Industrial period lime kilns Y

04174/01 18th Century Flint Mill, Sprotbrough

Possibly 16th century fulling mill, used to grind flint during the 18th and 19th centuries. Demolished early 20th century.

Y

04174/02 Mill House Corn Mill, Sprotbrough / Warmsworth

A mill from the industrial period. Documents refer to the 'Fulling Mill' but this site may not have been used for Fulling.

Y

04848 Post-Medieval Icehouse at St Dominic's Crag, Sprotbrough

An icehouse associated with Sprotbrough Hall, which was built by Sir Joseph Copeley in the late 1680s. The building was later incorporated into the design of the extant dwelling constructed in the 1930s.

Y

04914 Roman Road; Brough to Doncaster via Templeborough

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

Y

ESY311 Evaluation Excavation of The Gardens, Sprotbrough

Archaeological excavation within the area of the former kitchen gardens of Sprotbrough Hall identified a number of features relating to the 18th and 19th century landscape park and gardens. The north-eastern part of the site revealed a well and structural feature probably of late Medieval date. The southern part of the site contained few archaeological features apart from a ditch containing two sherds of Anglo-Scandinavian Torksey ware.

Y

ESY440 Building Recording at Sprotbrough Park Stables

In January 2002 a programme of building recording was undertaken at Sprotbrough Park Stables.

Y

ESY443 Geophysical Survey at St Dominic's Crag

A geophysical survey defined an area of possible archaeology, but an evaluation trench in the northeast part of the site did not identify any archaeological features.

Y

ESY444 Building Survey of the Icehouse at St Dominic's Crag

In March 2006 a building survey was conducted for the icehouse structure at St Dominic's Crag. The main chamber was found to be almost intact.

Y

ESY886 Archaeological Evaluation of Land off Church Lane, Balby, Doncaster

Geophysical survey showed an area of high resistivity within the playing field adjacent to Church Lane and also a linear low resistivity feature in the same area. Five trial trenches were dug and nothing of archaeological significance was found.

Y

ESY893 Geophysical (Resistivity) Survey

Report of the result of the geophysical (resistivity) survey conducted on the site of Anchorage School, adjacent to the site of Saint Peter's Church, Church Lane, Balby.

Y

ESY1400 Monitoring of geotechnical work at Sprotbrough Weir

Watching brief conducted during geotechnical works ahead of the construction of a fish pass. Remains of a building, believed to be a post-medieval flint mill, were observed.

Y

ESY1404 Brief recording of standing remains and earthworks at Sprotbrough Weir

Survey of visible features at the site of a former mill at Sprotbrough Weir. Low, fragmentary sections of wall and several banks were correlated with historic maps.

Y

ESY1405 Excavation and watching brief at

Excavation at the site of a former mill at Sprotbrough weir was undertaken in 2013. Well preserved sub-surface remains were

Y



Sprotbrough Weir recorded, including machine base fittings, a gear pit and the wheel pit and other features associated with the water-powered mechanism. The mill originated perhaps in the 16th century as a fulling mill, and was used as a flint mill later in its period of use. It was demolished in the early 20th century.

ESY1408 Watching brief at Copley Gardens, Sprotborough

Watching brief to monitor the removal of topsoil and the demolition of a 20th century house. The remains of an eighteenth century ice house known to survive beneath the building were monitored.

Y



HSY5407 Former Don and Tenter Fields, Warmsworth Agglomerated fields Y Y

HSY5408 South bank of the Don at Warmsworth Valley Floor Meadows Y Y

HSY4287 Sprotborough Ings, Sprotborough, Doncaster Valley Floor Meadows Y

HSY4288 Land east of Sprotborough, Doncaster Agglomerated fields Y

HSY5102 Park Drive, Sprotbrough, Doncaster Villas/ Detached Housing Y

HSY5118 Woodlands to the south of Sprotborough, Doncaster

Ancient Woodland Y

HSY5119 Riverside Drive, Sprotbrough, Doncaster Villas/ Detached Housing Y

HSY5120 St Chad's Way, Sprotbrough, Doncaster Villas/ Detached Housing Y

HSY5121 Recreation area, east of Sprotbrough, Doncaster

Playing Fields/ Recreation ground Y

HSY5131 Villas on and south of the site of Sprotbrough Hall, Sprotbrough, Doncaster


HSY5132 Sprotbrough Gardens, Sprotbrough, Doncaster Private Housing Estate Y

HSY5402 Dolomite Quarry, Sheffield Road, Doncaster Landfill Y

HSY5404 Dolomite Quarry, Sheffield Road, Doncaster Quarry Y

HSY5411 Levitt Hagg Wood, Doncaster Semi Natural Woodland Y

HSY5412 Lake at Levitt Hagg, Doncaster Artificial Lake Y

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

HSY5553 Church Lane, Balby, Doncaster Planned Estate (Social Housing) Y

HSY5555 St Peters Graveyard, Warmsworth, Doncaster Cemetery Y

HSY5558 Warmsworth Burial Ground, Warmsworth, Doncaster

Cemetery Y

HSY5680 Tenter Lane, Warmsworth, Doncaster Planned Estate (Social Housing) Y


HSY5695 Grosvenor Terrace, Warmsworth, Doncaster Planned Estate (Social Housing) Y


HSY5793 Hexthorpe Flatts, Doncaster Public Park Y

HSY5949 Sprotborough Mills (sites of), Sprotborough Water Powered Site Y

HSY5950 St Dominic's Close and Spinney Hill, Doncaster Villas/ Detached Housing Y



Allocation Reference: 214 Allocation Type: Housing Site Name: Common Lane, Warmsworth






Summary

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



Allocation Reference: 214 Allocation Type: Housing Site Name: Common Lane, Warmsworth



The SMR does not record any findspots, monuments or events within the site. Two monuments are recorded at the northern edge of the buffer zone, a 17th-century bell tower and the gardens to Warmsworth Hall.

There are no Scheduled Monuments or listed buildings within the site. Two grade II listed buildings are located at the northern edge of the buffer, the bell tower mentioned above, and the gatepiers for Warmsworth Hall.

The Magnesian Limestone in South and West Yorkshire Aerial Photographic Mapping Project recorded earthwork ridge and furrow within the eastern part of the site, but Lidar indicates that this has been plough-levelled since the photographs were taken. Further ridge and furrow was recorded in the buffer surrounding the site.

The Historic Environment Characterisation records the present character of the site as agglomerated fields, where boundary loss has led to the loss of the former character of strip fields deriving from open fields; and surveyed enclosure, with regular fields enclosed from Warmsworth Common in the mid-18th century. Character zones within the buffer are defined as piecemeal enclosure, spoil heap, planned estate (social housing), utilities, strip fields, private housing estate, plantation, caravan/camping site, nursery, semi-detached housing, motorway and trunk road junctions, playing fields/recreation ground, elite residence, vernacular cottages and villas/detached housing.

One area of historic landfill is recorded at the northern edge of the buffer, a former railway cutting.

The site is currently four fields in arable cultivation, bounded to the east by the A1(M) and to the south by Broomhouse Lane.


The site formed part of several fields, including part of Warmsworth Common, at the time of the 1854 OS map. Common Lane, Warmsworth Beck and a bridle road were shown within the site at that date. No changes were shown within the site on the 1959 OS map, although several of the 19th-century field boundaries had been amalgamated by 1967. Further amalgamation was shown on the 1994 OS map.

Fields, Common Lane, the grounds of Warmsworth Hall, a fish pond, gardens and Warmsworth Beck were shown within the buffer zone on the 1854 OS map. Substantial development had taken place by the time of the 1930 map, with the LNER railway, Common Lane Bridge, allotments, a sewage works with filter beds, sedimentation tanks, humus tanks and an engine house shown within the buffer. Further housing had been built by 1962, with more shown in 1964. The Doncaster Bypass had been built by that date, with further housing, Warmsworth Park, Warmsworth Playing Field and its pavilion, and a large spoilheap shown in the buffer in 1967. Further housing was shown within the buffer on the 1987 OS map.

Survival:

The site has been fields since at least 1854. Arable cultivation has levelled the ridge and furrow earthworks recorded within the site in the 1940s, and may have caused some truncation to below-ground deposits. Below the plough zone, the potential for unrecorded buried archaeological remains is considered to be moderate.



Significance:

Unknown.




Twenty-first century aerial photographs show the site as four fields in arable cultivation. Lidar data does not show any potential archaeological features within the site, including the earthwork ridge and furrow plotted within the site by the Magnesian Limestone Aerial Mapping Project, indicating that ploughing has levelled any earthworks within the site.


Google Earth: 2002, 2003, 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2015. Bing Maps: 2015. Lidar data tiles SK5499, SK5599, SE5400 & SE5500 DTM 1m.

RAF/CPE/UK/1880 2098 06-Dec-1946; RAF/CPE/UK/2011 5388 16-Apr-1947; RAF/58/899 5145 19-Jun-1952.



Site? Buffer?

1151510 Bell Tower at junction with Glebe Street II Y

1286114 Eastern gatepiers to Warmsworth Hall II Y



00405/01 17th Century Bell Tower

Bell Tower with possible medieval origins Y

00485/03 Warmsworth Hall Garden

No park. Garden to north and south, with pond on the south boundary.

Y



HSY5579 Common Lane, Warmsworth, Doncaster Surveyed Enclosure (Parliamentary/ Private)

Y Y

HSY5580 Common Lane, Warmsworth, Doncaster Agglomerated fields Y Y

HSY4361 Alverley Grange, Edlington, Doncaster Piecemeal Enclosure Y

HSY4363 Lord's Head Lane, New Edlington, Doncaster Spoil Heap Y

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

HSY5578 Warmsworth Sewage Works, Warmsworth, Doncaster

Utilities Y

HSY5581 Aviemore Road, Balby, Doncaster Private Housing Estate Y

HSY5582 Croft Road, Warmsworth, Doncaster Strip Fields Y

HSY5587 Aldcliffe Crescent, Balby, Doncaster Private Housing Estate Y

HSY5607 Broomhouse Lane, Alverley, Doncaster Plantation Y

HSY5611 Sunnyview, Alverley, Doncaster Caravan/ Camping site Y

HSY5612 Grange Lane, Alverley, Doncaster Nursery Y


HSY5676 J36 A1(M), Warmsworth, Doncaster Motorway and Trunk Road Y



Junctions


HSY5882 Warmsworth Hall, Warmsworth, Doncaster Elite Residence Y

HSY5986 Warmsworth, Doncaster Vernacular Cottages Y





Allocation Reference: 215 Allocation Type: Housing Site Name: High Road, Warmsworth

Area (Ha): 1.57 NGR (centre): SE 5449 0055 Settlement: Warmsworth



Historic landscape significance Major


Summary

Within site Within buffer zone Scheduled Monument - - Listed Building 1 6 SMR record/event - 7 records Cropmark/Lidar evidence Yes Yes Cartographic features of interest Yes Yes Estimated sub-surface disturbance Partial n/a



Allocation Reference: 215 Allocation Type: Housing Site Name: High Road, Warmsworth



The SMR does not record any findspots, monuments or events within the site. Six monuments are recorded in the buffer zone: the course of the Roman road from Templeborough; a 17th-century bell tower; Warmsworth Hall; Warmsworth Hall gardens; a Quaker meeting house; and Warmsworth House.

There are no Scheduled Monuments in the site or the buffer. One grade II listed building is recorded in the site: an early 18th-century stone barn at the northwest corner of the West Farm farmyard. One grade II* and five grade II listed buildings are recorded in the buffer, all to the east of the site and concentrated around Warmsworth Hall.

The Magnesian Limestone in South and West Yorkshire Aerial Photographic Mapping Project did not record any features within the site. Ridge and furrow remains were recorded at the western edge of the buffer zone.

The Historic Environment Characterisation records the present character of the site as Vernacular Cottages. These form part of a typical limestone village centred around Warmsworth Hall. The extent of surrounding infill has rather crowded the surviving mostly 18th- and 19th-century farm buildings and houses. Two relict piecemeal enclosures survive within the site. There is significant legibility of earlier property boundaries and earlier fragments. Character zones within the buffer are defined as Quarry, Public Park, Terraced Housing, Semi-Detached Housing, Motorway & Trunk Road Junctions, School, Planned Estate (Social Housing), Playing Fields/Recreation Ground, Elite Residence, Vernacular Cottages and Villas/Detached Housing.

The site is currently occupied by farm buildings at the southeast side, with two small fields along the northern and western sides.


The site contained West Farm, the farmyard, a pond and several plots of land at the time of the 1854 OS map. A small number of additional farm buildings had been added by 1903, while some of the plot boundaries had been removed. No changes were shown within the site in 1938, although several farm buildings and the pond had been removed by 1959. No changes were shown within the site on the 1966, 1980 and 1992 OS maps.

Warmsworth Hall, Warmsworth House, fields, field boundaries, a pinfold, lime kilns, a limestone quarry, gardens, orchards, a large fish pond, Calf’s Head Lane, High Road and Low Road were shown within the buffer zone on the 1854 OS map. A smithy was marked on the 1894 map. Several of the lime kilns were disused at that date. Mill Lane, a school and housing were shown in 1930, with extensive housing, a church and a further school shown on the 1937 OS map. Further housing had been built by 1956, with extensive housing estates shown in 1966. A library was shown on the 1980 OS map. Little substantive change was shown on the 1994 map.

Survival:

The majority of the site has been undeveloped land attached to West Farm since at least 1854. Given the lack of deep ground disturbance in the majority of the site, the potential for buried archaeological remains is considered to be moderate. Any archaeological remains within the footprints of the farm buildings may have been impacted by their construction. The West Farm barn is grade II listed, and other buildings within the site are of similar construction, though possibly of later date and not considered by Historic England to be of equal historic interest.


The site forms part of an area considered to be of Major historic landscape significance, and also contains a grade II listed building. Further consideration of the landscape character and the potential impact of development on the setting of the listed buildings within and adjacent to the site should be made, to assess the site’s capacity for housing development.



Significance:

The significance of any buried remains is currently Unknown. As a grade II listed building, the West Farm barn is considered to be of Regional significance. The site forms part of a landscape with significant legibility of the 18th- to 19th-century village around Warmsworth Hall, and is considered to be of Major historic landscape significance.


Twenty-first century aerial photographs show the western and northern parts of the site as fields, shown as used for pasture or hay cultivation. Lidar data shows several linear features within the undeveloped part of the site. These features, which are not visible on the aerial photographs, may be the remains of ridge and furrow or former plot divisions. The buildings in the southwest part of the site are part of the West Farm complex, and most are of stone construction with pantile roofs. One of these, a barn in the northwest corner of the complex, is of early 18th-century date and is grade II listed; the other buildings may be later 18th- or 19th-century date. A stone wall also runs along the southern boundary of the eastern field.


Google Earth: 2002, 2003, 2008, 2009 and 2015. Bing Maps: 2015. Lidar data tile SE5400 DTM 1m.

RAF/CPE/UK/1880 2098 06-Dec-1946; RAF/58/1891 F21 0101 14-Oct-1955.



Site? Buffer?

1151509 Barn at north west corner of farmyard yard to West Farm II Y

1151510 Bell Tower at junction with Glebe Street II Y

1151511 "The Annexe”, Warmsworth House II Y

1193489 Warmsworth Hall II* Y

1286114 Eastern gatepiers to Warmsworth Hall II Y

1286119 Over 60's Club II Y

1314831 Western gatepiers to Warmsworth Hall II Y



00405/01 17th Century Bell Tower

Bell Tower with possible medieval origins Y

00485/01 Warmsworth Hall Present hall, built 1702, probably occupies site of a medieval predecessor, occupied by John Bosvile in 1551

Y

00485/03 Warmsworth Hall Garden

No park. Garden to north and south, with pond on the south boundary.

Y

03803/01 Friends Meeting House, Warmsworth

Quaker Meeting House built 1706, now a club Y

04173/01 Warmsworth House

18th century house. Ashlar with Welsh slate roof. 2-storey with coped gables. Stone porch looks to be mid-19th century. Range of farm buildings to the north with pantile and stone-slabbed roof.

Y

04914/01 Roman road Course of Roman road from Templeborough. Y





HSY5986 Warmsworth, Doncaster Vernacular Cottages Y Y





HSY5676 J36 A1(M), Warmsworth, Doncaster Motorway and Trunk Road Junctions

Y

HSY5679 Warmsworth Middle school, Warmsworth, Doncaster

School Y




HSY5882 Warmsworth Hall, Warmsworth, Doncaster Elite Residence Y





Allocation Reference: 217 Allocation Type: Housing Site Name: Back Lane, Cusworth






Summary

Within site Within buffer zone Scheduled Monument - 1 Listed Building/Registered Park - 7/1 SMR record/event 1 record 6 records/4 events Cropmark/Lidar evidence Yes Yes Cartographic features of interest Yes Yes Estimated sub-surface disturbance Low n/a



Allocation Reference: 217 Allocation Type: Housing Site Name: Back Lane, Cusworth



The SMR records one findspot within the eastern side of the site, part of a Neolithic stone axe found within Avenue Field. Three findspots and three monuments are recorded within the buffer. A Mesolithic flint and a medieval buckle were found to the south of the site, and a coin of Henry VIII was found to the northeast. The monuments are all located in the southern part of the buffer: Cusworth shrunken medieval village; the post-medieval Cusworth Hall and landscape park, and the hall’s stable block and bothy. Four events within the buffer comprised two episodes of building recording at Cusworth Hall, archaeological investigations associated with alterations to the park, and a watching brief at Manor Farm Cottage which did not reveal any features of archaeological interest.

There are no Scheduled Monuments or listed buildings within the site. One Scheduled Monument is located within the buffer, the earthwork remains of Cusworth shrunken medieval village. Seven listed buildings are within the southeast part of the buffer. Cusworth Hall is grade I listed, whilst the remaining six are grade II and include the stable block, bothy and lodge associated with the hall, and four buildings in Cusworth village. The landscape park associated with Cusworth Hall is listed as grade II on the Register of Parks and Gardens.

The Magnesian Limestone in South and West Yorkshire Aerial Photographic Mapping Project recorded levelled ridge and furrow as cropmarks in the western part of the site, and earthwork ridge and furrow is recorded in the buffer to the north, south and west.

Historic Environment Characterisation records the present character of the site and the northern part of the buffer as agglomerated fields, with no legibility of probable piecemeal enclosure from former open fields. Further character zones within the buffer are a college and private housing estates to the northeast and east, Cusworth estate village, hall and landscape park to the south and southeast, and further agglomerated fields to the west.

The site is currently two fields, one very large, separated by a belt of woodland called the Spring Rein, that runs alongside a footpath. A further belt of trees runs along a trackway at the northern boundary of the site, called Long Plantation. The southern boundary is formed by Back Lane, the western boundary by Sheep Walk Lane, and the eastern boundary by modern housing.


The 1854 map shows the site as part of six fields, with Spring Rein plantation running through the western side on a north-south alignment. The field to the east of this was also called the Rein, and appears to have contained ornamental trees, including a possible avenue running diagonally across from southeast to northwest. A limestone quarry was also recorded at the southwest side of the field. The fields had slightly curving boundaries, suggestive of piecemeal enclosure from open field. Long Plantation was shown along the northern boundary. The 1892 map showed Rein Quarry within a small enclosure east of the Spring Rein. Within The Rein field, many rows of trees were shown, and a footpath on the site of the possible former avenue. By 1904, three fields to the east of the Rein also contained ornamental tree plantings, some either on mounds or within small circular enclosures. One of the fields was named Avenue Field. The mounds or enclosures were not shown in 1930, when trees were only shown in the Rein and Avenue Fields. No trees were shown in any of the fields by 1956, though the plantations still survived, the Spring Rein plantation having extended to surround the quarry, which was disused and probably partially infilled by 1961. Sheep Wash Lane was first shown in 1961, forming the western boundary of the site. By 1968, one of the field boundaries at the eastern side of the site had been removed.

Within the buffer, Cusworth Hall and park are shown to the south of the site, with the estate village to the southeast. Back Lane ran along the southern boundary of the site. By 1930, a railway line was shown at the western edge of the buffer, the LNER Denaby Branch, running through a plantation. The 1956 showed some housing development extending into the northeast part of the buffer, which had extended westwards by 1968 and again by 1980. Doncaster bypass was constructed to the west of the site, running through part of the park, by 1966.



Survival:

The site has been in recent cultivation, which may have caused some truncation to sub-surface deposits, though the potential for survival of buried archaeology below the plough zone is considered to be moderate to high. Quarrying remains survive as earthworks within Spring Rein plantation. Spring Rein and Long Plantation are probably remnant historic landscape features associated with Cusworth Park to the south. A substantial palaeochannel is recorded in both cropmark and Lidar data crossing the northern part of the site. This feature is not shown on any of the historic OS maps, and could have associated alluvial sequences and preserved palaeoenvironmental remains. A Neolithic stone axe was found in the eastern side of the site, suggesting there may be the potential for further prehistoric remains within the site. The shrunken medieval village of Cusworth is located to the south of the site, and there is the potential for associated buried remains to extend into the site.


Further archaeological investigations are likely to be required if the site is allocated for development. The impact of development on the setting of the Registered Park at Cusworth should also be considered.

Significance:

Unknown. The surviving plantations form locally significant historic landscape elements associated with Cusworth Hall and park. The potential significance of any remains associated with the palaeochannel and prehistoric to medieval activity would depend on their nature, extent and condition.


The 2002-2015 aerial photographs show the site as two fields in arable use, separated by the Spring Rein plantation. The field to the west of the plantation is small and triangular, that to the east is very large. Housing had extended up to the eastern site boundary by 2002. The 2002 photograph shows a wide palaeochannel as a cropmark feature running through the northern part of the site and into a field to the north, on a roughly east-west alignment. It is visible as a fainter feature on some of the other photographs, when conditions were less suitable for the formation of cropmarks. The palaeochannel is also visible in Lidar data as a wide hollow. The only other feature visible on Lidar is probable quarrying remains at the south end of Spring Rein plantation.


Google Earth coverage 2002, 2003, 2008, 2009 & 2015. Lidar data files SE5304, SE5404 DTM 1m.

RAF/CPE/UK/1880 3098 06-Dec-1946; MAL/71050 0168 03-May-1971; MAL/73021 0022 11-May-1973.



Site? Buffer?

1000412 Cusworth Hall Registered Park II Y

1019080 Medieval settlement 170m north east of Cusworth Hall SM Y

1151602 Manor Cottage II Y

1192735 Cusworth Hall I Y

1240554 Bowling House and attached garden walls to south east of Church Cottage

II Y

1286477 The Mistal II Y

1314779 Entrance lodge to Cusworth Hall including wing walls and gates II Y

1314798 The Manor House II Y

1314799 Old stable block and bothy to Cusworth Hall II Y





00453/01 Late Medieval Coin, Scawsby

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

Y

00455/01 Cusworth Shrunken Medieval Village, Sprotbrough

Field between hall and village. Shows traces of croft boundaries - fragment of shrunken village.

Y

02658/01 Medieval Bronze Buckle, Cusworth Park

Medieval cast bronze buckle found by metal detector. Y

02850/01 Cusworth Hall and Park, Sprotbrough

Hall and landscape park dating to the mid eighteenth century. Y

02850/02 Cusworth Hall Stable Block, Sprotbrough

Stable block & bothy at Cusworth Hall, now used as woodman’s store. Rubble limestone stone slate roof; 2 storey elagated range with outshots to rear. Interior: some horse stalls remain. Coursed principal rafter trusses, marble purkins.

Y

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

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

Y

05154 Possible Mesolithic Flint Find, Cusworth

A Mesolithic flint backed blade found in Edlington Woods. Y

ESY309 Archaeological Building Recording at Cusworth Hall and Park

In 2000 a programme of building recording was undertaken at Cusworth Hall and Park.

Y

ESY447 Archaeological Building Recording at Cusworth Hall

In July 2005 a programme of archaeological building recording was undertaken at Cusworth Hall which recovered a mid-18th-century hall, replaced 16th-century building; 18th-century ceramic, bone and glass.

Y

ESY528 Archaeological Investigations within the Historic Park and Garden surrounding Cusworth Hall

During Autumn 2003 a programme of archaeological investigation was undertaken within the Historic Park and Garden surrounding Cusworth Hall. An archaeological watching brief within the yard to the north of the former stable examined a low curved platform built against one of the surrounding boundary walls. Excavation of a Rock Arch located in the north-east corner of the Upper Lake designed by Richard Woods in 1760-65 was investigated prior to dredging the lake. At the junction of the Middle and Lower lakes the remains of a stone bridge were recorded.

Y

ESY1567 Manor Farm Cottage, Cusworth Watching Brief

The erection of a detached garage at Manor Farm Cottage was monitored by the South Yorkshire Archaeological Service but yielded only three sherds of 19th century pottery. The foundations reached a depth of 80 cm and lay directly on the limestone bedrock.

Y





HSY4296 Land around Scawsby Village, Doncaster Agglomerated fields Y Y

HSY4205 Probable area of former open fields of Marr and Marr Grange, Doncaster

Agglomerated fields Y

HSY4262 Land west of Sprotborough village, Doncaster Agglomerated fields Y

HSY4266 Cusworth Park (phase 1 extent), Doncaster Private Parkland Y

HSY4267 Cusworth Park Phase 2 (former fields) Private Parkland Y

HSY4269 Cusworth Park 3, Doncaster Private Parkland Y

HSY4928 Developments south of Barnsley Road, Scawsby, Doncaster

Private Housing Estate Y

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

University or College Y

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

HSY5140 Cusworth, Doncaster Estate Village Y



Allocation Reference: 220 Allocation Type: Housing Site Name: Garage off Sheffield Rd/Clifton Hill, (Site A)

Area (Ha): 0.72 NGR (centre): SK 5145 9838 Settlement: Conisbrough


Archaeological significance of site Local



Summary

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



Allocation Reference: 220 Allocation Type: Housing Site Name: Garage off Sheffield Rd/Clifton Hill, (Site A)



The SMR does not record any monuments or events within the site boundary. Within the buffer zone, one monument and one findspot are recorded. Immediately to the north of the site, aligned approximately east-west, is the suggested route of a Roman road, which enters South Yorkshire in the southwest from Brough (Derby), travelling northeast towards the Roman fort at Templeborough and then towards Doncaster. Sheffield Road follows the course of the Roman road. To the north of the Roman road is the find spot of a Roman coin of Vespasian (AD 71-73). One event is recorded at the very northern end of the buffer, relating to a geophysical survey and subsequent evaluation, which only identified modern features.

No Scheduled Monuments or listed buildings are recorded within the site. Within the buffer zone, two listed buildings are present, the grade II listed late 18th to early 19th-century Red Lion public house, located immediately outside the western site boundary; and the grade II listed Wesleyan Methodist Chapel of 1896, located to the northwest of the site. There is one area of historic landfill within the buffer zone, which extends slightly into the south-eastern site boundary; the Ashfield Quarry/Ashfield Brickworks.

The Magnesian Limestone in South and West Yorkshire Aerial Photographic Mapping Project does not record any features within the site. In the buffer zone, levelled post-medieval ridge and furrow is recorded to the extreme west of the site. At the very eastern extreme of the buffer, earthwork evidence of two 20th-century searchlight batteries is recorded.

Historic Environment Characterisation records the present character of the site as the site of Ashfield Fire Clay Works, with no legibility of former land uses. Within the buffer zone, to the north, east and west are a variety of housing and industrial plots, with probable partial legibility of earlier road patterns and historic features. To the south is a small area of park and recreation land, with significant legibility of former enclosed field boundaries, probably dating to the final enclosure of Medley Field in 1858. A larger area of enclosed land of medium sized fields also lies within the southern end of the buffer zone, where the fields have a semi-regular pattern which is hard to categorise.

Historic landfill data records two instances of landfilling within the southern side of the site and extending into the buffer, associated with a former brickworks.

The site currently comprises mainly open wasteland, with a collection of structures in the northern corner.


On the 1854 map, a number of unlabelled buildings were shown in the north-western end of the site. The south-eastern half of the site was part of a field named Brick Field. By 1892 the Ashfield Fireclay Works had been built over the site, which extended southwards into the buffer. A clay pit was present at the south-eastern end of the site, whilst some of the main buildings of the clay works were present in the north-western end of the site. A kiln was also marked on the site. There is a building in the location of the one shown in 1854, although it is unclear whether it is the same building, however this had been demolished by 1902. By this time, the main structure of the brickworks had been extended to the northeast and a large oblong building constructed within the north-western end of the site, near the kiln; this had been demolished by 1930. By 1962, further buildings had been removed, with the remaining buildings labelled as disused. A pair of cottages were at the northern end of the site, labelled Pinfold Cottages. By 1969, the quarry at the southeast end of the site was shown as a slag heap, and a new building had been constructed to the southwest of Pinfold Cottages, labelled Depot. By 1976, this was marked as Works (disused). The site remained unchanged on the 1994 map. It is possible that one of the clay works buildings survived within the site until at least 1994, although this building is no longer present on current aerial photography.

Within the buffer zone, much of the area to the south comprised fields in 1854, labelled Medley Field. The historic core of Conisbrough was located in the northern half of the buffer. To the southwest of the site was the Red Lion Inn, with a National School to the east. By 1892, the kilns and some structures belonging to the Ashfield



Clay Works were located to the southwest, immediately outside the site boundary. Ashfield House and a spring were located to the southwest of the site, with the Holywell Brewery located a little further to the southwest. A Methodist Chapel and the Castle Confectionary Works were shown to the north of the site. By 1930, a cricket ground had been established to the south of the site. By 1962, to the east of the site, houses on the Windmill Estate had been constructed. By 1969 the majority of the area to the southwest had been cleared, although one building belonging to the clay works still existed at this time, removed by 1976.

Survival:

Structures were shown on the site from 1854, with the Ashfield Fire Clay works and a clay pit covering the site by 1894. The clay works buildings were mostly cleared by 1962, although one of the buildings was still present on the 1994 map, having since been removed. Pinfold Cottages are still present on the site, which were first labelled on the map of 1962, and are likely to be 1930s-40s in date. The c.1960 depot building is also still present, as is a third building, constructed sometime after 1994. The extent of sub-surface clearance of the clay works is unknown, although no significant development is evident on the site since the clearance; hence, survival of below-ground remains associated with the structures of the clay works is considered to be moderate to high. The potential of survival of archaeological remains in the south-eastern end of the site, which contained the quarry and latterly a slag heap, is negligible.



Significance:

Remains of the brick works are considered to be of Local archaeological significance.


Twenty-first century aerial photography shows the area to the southeast of the site to have been used as a storage area in 2002, with standing buildings in the north-western area, including two semi-detached houses appearing to be of mid-20th-century date, and a later depot building in use as a motor garage by 2016. By 2003, the south-eastern area had been cleared and allowed to gradually grass over. No Lidar data is available for the site.


Google Earth Images 2002, 2003, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2015. Street View imagery 2016.

RAF/541/170 3233 21-Sep-1948; RAF/542/77F21 0003 28-Oct-1954.



Site? Buffer?

1151534 The Red Lion public house II Y

1424608 Conisbrough Wesleyan Methodist Chapel II Y



01024/01 Roman Coin Find, Conisbrough

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

Y

04914 Roman Road; Brough to Doncaster via

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

Y



Templeborough then towards Doncaster.

ESY3 Evaluation on Land off Low Road, Conisbrough

An initial geophysical survey was carried out in advance of the construction of the car park, which in turn highlighted several interesting anomalies. However, when these were investigated, they turned out to be of a modern origin i.e. land drains and dumps of stone. This should not be taken to imply however, that other sites in the area in close proximity may be similar.

Y



HSY5387 Former Fire Clay Quarry, Clifton Hill, Conisbrough

Landfill Y Y

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

Distribution Centre Y Y

HSY4388 Clifton Hill, Conisbrough, Doncaster Piecemeal Enclosure Y

HSY5335 Windmill Estate, Conisborough, Doncaster Planned Estate (Social Housing) Y

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

HSY5373 March Vale Rise, Conisbrough Private Housing Estate Y

HSY5376 Suburban expansion north east of Conisbrough, Doncaster


HSY5389 Site of 'Castle Saw Mill', Conisbrough, Doncaster

Semi Natural Woodland Y

HSY5395 Cornhill, Conisbrough, Doncaster Private Housing Estate Y

HSY5443 Kearsley Brook, Conisbrough, Doncaster Semi Natural Woodland Y

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

Terraced Housing Y

HSY5450 High Street / Waverly Avenue, Conisbrough, Doncaster


HSY5452 Low Road / Willow Street, Conisbrough, Doncaster

Terraced Housing Y

HSY5453 Piggotts Park, Conisbrough, Doncaster Playing Fields/ Recreation ground Y

HSY5457 Holywell Lane, Chapel Lane, Conisbrough, Doncaster

Terraced Housing Y

HSY5458 Holywell Road Industrial area, Conisbrough, Doncaster

Other Industry Y

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



Allocation Reference: 221 Allocation Type: Housing Site Name: Garage off Sheffield Rd/Clifton Hill (Site B)






Summary

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



Allocation Reference: 221 Allocation Type: Housing Site Name: Garage off Sheffield Rd/Clifton Hill (Site B)



The SMR does not record any monuments or events within the site boundary. Within the buffer zone, one monument and one findspot are recorded. Immediately to the north of the site, aligned approximately east-west, is the suggested route of a Roman road, which enters South Yorkshire in the southwest from Brough (Derby), travelling northeast towards the Roman fort at Templeborough and then towards Doncaster. Sheffield Road follows the course of the Roman road. To the north of the Roman road is the find spot of a Roman coin of Vespasian (AD 71-73).

No Scheduled Monuments or listed buildings are recorded within the site. Two grade II listed buildings are located within the buffer zone, the late 18th- to early 19th-century Red Lion public house, located immediately outside the western site boundary; and a Wesleyan Methodist Chapel of 1896, located to the northwest of the site.

The Magnesian Limestone in South and West Yorkshire Aerial Photographic Mapping Project does not record any features within the site. In the buffer zone, levelled post-medieval ridge and furrow is recorded to the west of the site.

Historic Environment Characterisation records the present character of the site as the Site of Ashfield Fire Clay Works, with no legibility of former land uses. Within the buffer zone, to the north, east and west are a variety of housing and industrial plots, with probable partial legibility of earlier road patterns and historic features. To the south is a small area of park and recreation land, with significant legibility of former enclosed field boundaries, probably dating to the final enclosure of Medley Field in 1858. A larger area of enclosed land of medium sized fields also lies within the southern end of the buffer zone, the fields having a semi-regular pattern which is hard to categorise.

There is one area of historic landfill within the southeast edge of the site and buffer zone; the Ashfield Quarry/Ashfield Brickworks.

The site currently comprises a mixture of open wasteland with a depot building at the northeast end and tree cover to the south and west.


On the 1854 map, the site was part of a number of fields, with some un-labelled buildings at the northern end. By 1894, these buildings had been cleared to make way for the Ashfield Clay Works. Brick kilns were depicted within the site boundary, with a well at the southern end of the site. By 1930, the brick kilns had been replaced by two large buildings; it is possible that these were built to house the kilns, although this is uncertain. By 1962, many of the buildings were no longer present on the map, and the remaining structures were labelled as disused. By 1969, only one building of the original clay work complex remained on the site, although this had been removed by 1976, and the site was devoid of any structures. The site remained unchanged on the 1994 map.

Within the buffer zone, much of the area to the south comprised fields in 1854, labelled Medley Field. At the northern half of the buffer, the main core of Conisbrough was well established. Immediately to the west of the site was the Red Lion Inn, with a National School to the east. By 1892, the clay pit of the Ashfield clay works was immediately to the east of the site, Ashfield House and a spring were located to the southwest of the site, and the Holywell Brewery a little further to the southwest. A Methodist Chapel and the Castle Confectionary Works were located to the north of the site and the Star Hotel was located to the northeast. By 1930, a cricket ground had been established to the south of the site. By 1962, to the east of the site, houses had been constructed on the Windmill Estate. By 1969 a depot was present to the immediate northeast of the site, which appeared to incorporate some of the disused clay works buildings, although by 1976 this was labelled as Works (disused). The former quarry to the east of the works was labelled as a slag heap at this time.



Survival:

A brick works was built within the site between 1854 and 1894, including the brick kilns. These were mostly cleared by 1962, with a handful of buildings at the southern end of the site remaining until between 1969-1972. The extent of sub-surface clearance of the clay works is unknown, although no development is evident on the site since the clearance; hence, the potential for survival of below-ground remains associated with the structures of the clay works is considered to be high. The former tip area at the southeast edge of the site is likely to have a negligible potential for the survival of buried archaeological remains.


Further archaeological investigation may be required if the site is brought forward for development. This should include a consideration of the impact of development on the setting of the adjacent grade II listed Red Lion Inn.

Significance:

Remains associated with the brickworks are considered to be of Local archaeological significance.


Twenty-first century aerial photography shows what appear to be a scrap yard covering most of the site in 2002, with a small area of grass and trees along the north-western site boundary. By 2003 the site had been cleared, with the exception of a small building at the north-eastern end, which appears to be constructed out of corrugated metal. The site has remained largely unchanged since, with the area containing the scrap yard in 2002 gradually grassed over. No Lidar data is available for the site.


Google Earth Images 2002, 2003, 2007, 2008, 2009 & 2015.

RAF/541/35 4018 19-May-1948; RAF/542/77F21 0003 28-Oct-1954.



Site? Buffer?

1151534 The Red Lion public house II Y

1424608 Conisbrough Wesleyan Methodist Chapel II Y



01024/01 Roman Coin Find, Conisbrough

Roman coin - as of Vespasian (AD 71-73) from field behind Post Office in 1963. Owner is Mr. Shaw of Mexborough.

Y



Y





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


HSY4388 Clifton Hill, Conisbrough, Doncaster Piecemeal Enclosure Y

HSY5335 Windmill Estate, Conisborough, Doncaster Planned Estate (Social Housing) Y

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

HSY5373 March Vale Rise, Conisbrough Private Housing Estate Y

HSY5376 Suburban expansion north east of Conisbrough, Doncaster


HSY5387 Former Fire Clay Quarry, Clifton Hill, Conisbrough

Landfill Y

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

Terraced Housing Y

HSY5450 High Street / Waverly Avenue, Conisbrough, Doncaster


HSY5452 Low Road / Willow Street, Conisbrough, Doncaster

Terraced Housing Y

HSY5453 Piggotts Park, Conisbrough, Doncaster Playing Fields/ Recreation ground Y

HSY5456 Former tip, Sheffield Road, Conisbrough, Doncaster


HSY5457 Holywell Lane, Chapel Lane, Conisbrough, Doncaster

Terraced Housing Y

HSY5458 Holywell Road Industrial area, Conisbrough, Doncaster

Other Industry Y

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



Allocation Reference: 222 Allocation Type: Employment Site Name: RHADS Site 1, Phase 4 Business Park

Area (Ha): 178.16 NGR (centre): SK 6472 9782 Settlement: Finningley


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 6 records 5 records/4 events Cropmark/Lidar evidence Yes Yes Cartographic features of interest Yes Yes Estimated sub-surface disturbance Partial n/a



Allocation Reference: 222 Allocation Type: Employment Site Name: RHADS Site 1, Phase 4 Business Park



The SMR records five monuments and one findspot within the site. Two monuments at the southern end of the site relate to a large area of early Iron Age to Romano-British settlement and enclosure features recorded as cropmarks. Roman pottery and a possible cobbled surface are also recorded at the southern end of the site. Toward the eastern end of the site, further early Iron Age to Romano-British cropmarks are recorded, along with a possible medieval moat or Roman military camp. Within the buffer zone, there are five further monuments. Immediately along the western site boundary is the suggested Roman road from Lincoln to York via Bawtry and Doncaster. Further records in the buffer zone relate to Iron Age/Romano-British cropmarks, one of which probably continues into the northwest corner of the site. Four events are recorded within the buffer zone, all located to the north of the site. These relate to geophysical surveys, followed by excavation, which revealed little of archaeological significance, with the possible remnants of ridge and furrow, and an undated ditch.

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 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 most prominent at the southern end of the site, although there are fragmentary traces to the north. Evidence of post-medieval ridge and furrow is also recorded within the site and buffer zone.

The Historic Environment Characterisation records the present character of the southern part of the site as agglomerated fields, created through the enclosure of High Common by parliamentary award in 1767, with some loss of field boundaries towards the end of the 20th century and only partial legibility of the enclosure landscape. A small area of 19th- and 20th-century woodland is present within the site, and a small eastern part of the site comprises fields forming part of the estate of Finngley Park Hall, shown in 1854 but subject to gravel extraction in the mid-20th century, with no legibility of the historic fields or park character. To the west of this are fields created within former park woodland in the late 19th century. The majority of the remainder of the site and the buffer is a mixture of surveyed and piecemeal enclosure, with intermittent and highly fragmented visibly of former landscape characters.

The site currently comprises a number of fields, most of which appear to be is arable use. Small patches of woodland are also present, mostly at the northern end of the site.


Thomas Jeffery’s 1771 map of Yorkshire depicted the north-eastern part of the site within Finningley Park, the estate of the medieval Finningley Grange or Hall. Jeffery depicted the south-eastern part of the site as open land in 1771. Tinker’s Pond and Hammond’s Pond were present on the 1854 map, towards the eastern side of the site, though Hammond’s Pond was shown as infilled by 1893. The western part of the site comprised enclosed fields, marked Hurst Common, and a small area of trees is labelled Hags Plantation. A farm was shown in the location of Warren House Farm, labelled Hurst or Poverty Hill. A drain named ‘Rake Dale’ demarcated the fields from the Park in 1854 and continued south to High Common Lane. A ‘camp’ was present in the eastern part of the site at this time, which was identified as a ‘Roman Camp’ on the 1892 OS map. The site remained relatively unchanged until the 1962 map, which showed sand and gravel quarrying with the north-eastern part of the site, west of Park Farm, over the site of the former 'camp'. Further quarrying was shown to the south of Finningley Park plantation, in the eastern part of the site. Both quarries were shown as disused at that date. Some of the field boundaries within the remaining area had been removed by 1962, with very few remaining in 1992. At that date, the quarries appeared to have been infilled and regraded. Some ponds shown to the north of Hag Plantation may have also been the result of quarrying. 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. Spink Hall continued to be shown in the southern part of the site in 1968 but had been demolished by 1985. Little change is evident in at the western end of the site, with



the exception of the gradual expansion of Hag’s Planation.

Within the buffer zone, Common Lane was shown to the south of the site on Jefferys’ 1771 map, which by 1854 was named High Common Lane. The eastern part of the buffer, just outside the site, stood within the ‘Pale Park’ on the 1854 OS map. This is likely to have been the area within the ‘pale’ or boundary that had demarcated the park’s medieval perimeter. Finningley Hall was also shown to the east of the site. Little change had taken place within the buffer zone by 1948, although opencast mining had taken place in the eastern part of the buffer area by 1956. Finningley Hall had been demolished by 1962. RAF Finningley had also extended into the eastern part of the buffer zone by that date by 1961. Robin Hood Airport had been constructed by 2005, to the north and east of the site.

Survival:

Due to the lack of deep ground disturbance in the majority of the site, the likely survival of buried archaeological remains associated with the complex of Iron Age to Romano-British field systems and settlement is considered to be high. Areas where quarrying has taken place, principally in the northeast and eastern parts of the site, have no potential for the survival of archaeological remains; this includes the site of the Roman camp or medieval moated site recorded on the SMR.


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 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.

Aerial Photographs & Lidar Summary: Twenty-first century aerial photographs show the site as many fields, in varying sizes and shapes, the majority in arable use. Small areas of woodland are present within the site, particularly at the northern end. Cropmarks are visible on the 2009 photograph, including the features recorded by the Magnesian Limestone Project but also associated features continuing further to the north within the site. Lidar shows most of the fields as being relatively smooth and featureless, though confirms the presence of narrow earthwork ridge and furrow is present in the northwest part of the site, as recorded by the Magnesian Limestone Project. Several earthwork features are visible within Hag Plantation and Finningley Plantation, possibly associated with quarrying.


Google Earth coverage 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2012. Lidar data tiles SK6398, SK6496, SK6497, SK6498, SK6596, SK6597 & SK6598 DTM 1m.

RAF/541/35 4040 19-May-1948; OS/72362 0028 23-Aug-1972; SK6398/21 DNR 1066/19 29-Jun-1975; SK6497/10 DNR 862/17 27-Jun-1976; SK6497/21 DNR 1542/37 15-Jul-1979; SK6497/26 NMR 12514/1 11-Jul-1994.



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

00974/01 Roman pottery and possible cobbled surface, Auckley

Roman-British coarse pottery and cobbling turned by plough and found during field-walking by Doncaster Museum. Pottery could be 3rd century

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, continues eastwards as far as Finningley runways. Some Roman material found. Iron Age or Romano-British cropmark complex shown on aerial photographs

Y Y

02478/01 Romano-British Cropmark Complex, Austerfield

Iron Age or Romano-British cropmark complex shown on aerial photographs

Y

02483/01 Iron Age or Romano-British Unclassified Cropmarks, Austerfield

Iron Age or Romano-British unclassified cropmarks shown on aerial photographs.

Y

02484/01 Iron Age or Romano-British Unclassified Cropmarks, Austerfield


Y

02486/01 Iron Age or Romano-British Rectangular Enclosure and Field system, Rossington

Iron Age or Romano-British rectangular enclosure and field system shown on aerial photographs.

Y

02821/01 Romano-British Brooch Find, Auckley

Romano-British brooch (1st century AD) found in 1987 after removal of sugar beet.

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

ESY285 Geophysical Survey for the Robin Hood Airport Access Route

In April 2006 a geophysical was undertaken for the access route for Robin Hood airport. The results indicated the presence of anomalies likely to reflect ridge and furrow cultivation.

Y

ESY291 Archaeological Evaluation at Hurst Plantation

A walk-over survey of the site and woodland survey revealed linear ditches running through the plantation. These were interpreted as artificial and must have been created before the replanting of the site in the 1980s. A number of features probably relate to quarrying activity and an oval depression was located approx 5m across at its widest point, which may be a small quarry for either sand or gravel extraction. Test-pits show that the natural sands and gravels are between 20cm and 60cm below the ground surface in most areas and it is likely that these thin soils were heavily disturbed during replanting.

Y



Y

ESY1376 Geophysical survey, Hurst Lane, Hayfield Green

Geophysical survey was undertaken on a plot of land at Hurst Lane. Possible archaeological features were concentrated at the eastern part of the site, and consisted of possible pits and a curvilinear ditch.

Y





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

HSY4491 Finningley Park fields, Austerfield, Doncaster Assarts Y Y

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

HSY4606 Hag and Cadman's Plantation, Auckley, Doncaster

Plantation Y Y

HSY4608 Hurst Lane, Auckley, Doncaster Surveyed Enclosure (Parliamentary/ Private)

Y Y

HSY4432 Rossington Hall Park, Rossington, Doncaster Private Parkland Y

HSY4480 High Common Lane (south), Austerfield, Doncaster

Surveyed Enclosure (Parliamentary/ Private)

Y

HSY4489 Finningley Big Wood, Finningley, Doncaster Ancient Woodland Y

HSY4492 Finningley Park hall (site of), Austerfield, Doncaster

Piecemeal Enclosure Y

HSY4544 Savage Wood, Auckley, Doncaster Plantation Y

HSY4570 Hurst Lane, Auckley, Doncaster Assarts Y

HSY4595 Hurst Plantation, Auckley, Doncaster Plantation Y

HSY4596 Hurst Plantation pit, Auckley, Doncaster Other Mineral Extraction & Processing

Y

HSY4612 Hayfield Lane, Auckley, Doncaster Surveyed Enclosure (Parliamentary/ Private)

Y

HSY4641 Bessacarr Lane, Doncaster Drained Wetland Y

HSY4643 Old Park, Finningley, Doncaster Airport Y

HSY4644 Doncaster Sheffield Airport, Finningley, Doncaster

Airport Y



Allocation Reference: 223 Allocation Type: Housing/Employment Site Name: RHADS Site 2A, Land at Hayfield Lane

Area (Ha): 6.02 NGR (centre): SK 6545 9989 Settlement: Hayfield Green


Archaeological significance of site Negligible


Suitability of site for allocation No archaeological constraint

Summary

Within site Within buffer zone Scheduled Monument - - Listed Building - - SMR record/event 1 record/3 events 2 records/4 events Cropmark/Lidar evidence No No Cartographic features of interest No Yes Estimated sub-surface disturbance Partial n/a



Allocation Reference: 223 Allocation Type: Housing / Employment Site Name: RHADS Site 2A, Land at Hayfield Lane

Area (Ha): 6.02 NGR (centre): SK 6545 9989 Settlement: Hayfield Green


The SMR identifies one monument and two events within the site. The monument relates to a general area of Romano-British pottery industry, which also extends throughout the buffer. The potteries may be considered a single industrial entity that stretches across several kilometres to the east of Doncaster. To date, sites have been recorded in the parishes of Cantley, Rossington, Blaxton, Auckley and Doncaster. The events relate to a series of archaeological evaluations consisting of geophysical survey and evaluation which recorded an undated ditch and post-medieval to modern activity. There is one findspot, and two further events within the buffer: medieval pottery found in a ploughed field in the northern part of the buffer; and evaluations to the east of the site which did not find significant archaeological remains.

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 does not record any features within the site. Two areas of 20th-century sand and gravel extraction are recorded in the northern part of the buffer.

Historic Environment Characterisation records the site as a barracks for unmarried personnel at RAF Finningley. The blocks were constructed as part of the first phase of development in the mid-1930s and demolished after 2003. There is no legibility of the previous landscape character of Parliamentary Enclosure. Further character zones within the buffer comprise Doncaster airport on the site of RAF Finningley, sand and gravel quarrying, a nursery and modern semi-detached and social housing.

Historic landfill data records two areas of infilled ground in the buffer zone, inert and industrial waste to the northeast of the site at Shakespeare’s Nurseries, and a small area to the northwest at Hurst Lane, for which there are no details.

The site is currently an area of rough grass crossed by a service road.


The 1854 OS map depicts the site as within an agricultural landscape represented by large enclosures with straight regular boundaries. The site was located across the boundary of two of the fields. The Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire county boundary ran through the buffer to the west and north of the site. The Great Northern & Great Eastern Joint Railway had been established to the north, forming the northern boundary of the site by 1886. The pattern of enclosure remained unaltered until 1946, by which time housing development had commenced within the buffer to the southwest and northeast of the site. By 1962 a military barracks had been established to the south and east of the site, with planned housing within the buffer to the west. The site itself was mainly utilised as a sports ground, including tennis courts, with some buildings associated with the barracks in the southern area. The barracks was decommissioned after 2002.

Survival:

Previous archaeological evaluations have been undertaken across the site, with few features of archaeological significance revealed. The potential for the survival of further buried archaeological features is considered to be low.


The previous archaeological evaluations are likely to have completed any mitigation works required and it is unlikely that further investigations will be required if the site is brought forward for development.

Significance:

Negligible.




The 2002 aerial photograph showed the site as a fields and a tennis court, with the western boundary defined by the edges of gardens, the south edge by Hayfield Lane and the north edge by a railway line. The eastern boundary is not shown as a physical entity. The southern part of the site contained buildings associated with the barracks, with further blocks shown to the east. The barracks were under demolition by 2005, with new housing under constructed to the northeast. A new road network had been laid out along the eastern boundary of the site, with a branch running through the site, by 2008, presumably to facilitate future development within this area. Light industrial buildings were shown to the south of the site, with the housing to the east extended. Lidar does not show any earthworks of archaeological origin within the site.


Google Earth Coverage: 2002; 2003; 2005; 2008; 2009 & 2015. Lidar data files SK6599, SE6500.

RAF/CPE/UK/1880 2118 06-Dec-1946; MAL/71047 0171 03-May-1971.



00451/01 Medieval pottery find, Kilham,

Medieval pottery from ploughed field. Y

04930 The Doncaster Roman Pottery Production Area

A series of potteries have been recorded and excavated in the Doncaster district over several decades. The potteries may be considered a single industrial entity that stretches across several kilometres to the east of Doncaster. To date, sites have been recorded in the parishes of Cantley, Rossington, Blaxton, Auckley and Doncaster.

Y Y

ESY284 Geophysical Survey at Robin Hood Airport Business Park

In June 2006 a geophysical (gradiometer) survey was undertaken at the Robin Hood Airport Business Park. The results identified a soil-filled feature possibly a ditch or gully, which may reflect modern services and land drainage systems.

Y Y

ESY287 Archaeological Evaluation Report, Land off Gatehouse Lane, Finningley

In 2004 a geophysical survey was undertaken for land off Gatehouse Lane. The results indicated that most anomalies were due to recent activity. In 2005 an archaeological evaluation was undertaken on land off Gatehouse Lane. The results from 10 trenches exposed a single post-medieval/early modern boundary.

Y

ESY608 Archaeological Evaluation at Land near Robin Hood Airport,

An archaeological evaluation consisting of four trial trenches did not reveal any archaeological activity.

Y Y



Y Y





HSY4657 Barrack Blocks, Finningley, Doncaster Barracks Y Y

HSY4577 Hurst Lane, Auckley, Doncaster Other Mineral Extraction & Processing

Y

HSY4610 Marr Flatts Plantation, Auckley, Doncaster Plantation Y


Airport Y

HSY4645 Maple Avenue, Finningley, Doncaster Planned Estate (Social Housing) Y

HSY4646 West Barrier, Finningley, Doncaster Planned Estate (Social Housing) Y

HSY4838 Gatehouse Lane, Auckley, Doncaster Nursery Y

HSY5969 Housing north of Auckley Level Crossing, Finningley, Doncaster

Semi-Detached Housing Y



Allocation Reference: 225 Allocation Type: Employment Site Name: RHADS Site 3, Junction of Hayfield Lane






Summary

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



Allocation Reference: 225 Allocation Type: Employment Site Name: RHADS Site 3, Junction of Hayfield Lane



The SMR does not record any monuments or events within the site. One monument and two events are located within the buffer. The monument relates to a general area of Romano-British pottery industry. The potteries may be considered a single industrial entity that stretches across several kilometres to the east of Doncaster. The events consist of archaeological evaluations in which mostly recent activity was recorded along with a post-medieval boundary and an undated ditch.

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

The Magnesian Limestone in South and West Yorkshire Aerial Photographic Mapping Project records a 20th-century sand and gravel extraction site within the north of the buffer.

Historic Environment Characterisation records the site and buffer as an Airport, now Doncaster-Sheffield airport, which was opened in 2004 utilising the runway and land of the former RAF Finningley. The RAF base was opened in 1936, with the runway further upgraded to accommodate Vulcan bombers in the mid-1950s. Nuclear weapons storage facilities were also added. The base became a training facility from the 1970s onwards, becoming famous for its air show. It closed as a military base in 1996. Other character zones within the northern part of the buffer include an area of sand and gravel quarrying, and modern fields.

Currently the site consists of a field lined with trees to the north, east and south. It is maintained as grassland.


The 1854 OS map indicates that the current boundaries of the site had been established by that date. Adjacent to the site, within the buffer was a small copse, cut off from Mosham Wood by the Great Northern & Great Eastern Joint Railway established by 1886. The 1946 OS map omits the airfield and barracks established in the 1930s within the buffer zone, and the airfield is first recorded on the 1955 OS map. Avery House and gardens had been established in the western corner of the site by that date, and a sand and gravel quarry was shown in the northern part of the buffer. The quarry was no longer recorded by 1962, which records the airfield and barracks in detail. By this date the small woodland to the northeast of the site had been cleared and a ‘Works’ established, probably a sewage works given the arrangement of tanks shown.

Survival:

Apart from Avery House, the site has been a field since least the mid-19th century. The lack of substantial ground disturbance suggests that the potential for the survival of unrecorded buried archaeology is moderate.


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

Significance:

Unknown.


The 2002 aerial photograph shows the site as mainly a field under pasture, with Avery House shown in the western corner and associated outbuildings and a small enclosure, probably a horse riding paddock. This had become disused and overgrown by 2015, with a number of the outbuildings (presumably stables) to the north of Avery House also cleared by this date. The Lidar data shows a raised platform in the northwest corner of the site, on which Avery House is located, and a somewhat uneven ground surface across the remainder of the site. No



features of clear archaeological origin are visible.


Google Earth Coverage: 2002; 2003; 2005; 2008; 2009 & 2015. Lidar data tile SK6599 and SK6699 DTM 1m.

RAF/CPE/UK1880 2118 06-Dec-1946.



04930 The Doncaster Roman Pottery Production Area

A series of potteries have been recorded and excavated in the Doncaster district over several decades. The potteries may be considered a single industrial entity that stretches across several kilometres to the east of Doncaster. To date, sites have been recorded in the parishes of Cantley, Rossington, Blaxton, Auckley and Doncaster.

Y

ESY287 Archaeological Evaluation Report, Land off Gatehouse Lane, Finningley

In 2004 a geophysical survey was undertaken for land off Gatehouse Lane. The results indicated that most anomalies were due to recent activity. In 2005 an archaeological evaluation was undertaken on land off Gatehouse Lane. The results from 10 trenches exposed a single post-medieval/early modern boundary.

Y


A programme of archaeological field evaluation was undertaken at two sites, off Hurst Lane (Access Route) and Hayfield Lane (Rail and Business park site) in the vicinity of Robinhood Airport near Doncaster, South Yorkshire. A ditch of unknown date was recorded within the Hayfield Lane Site and some possible remnant furrows were recorded at the Hurst Lane Site.

Y




Airport Y Y

HSY4541 Mosham Wood, Blaxton, Doncaster Assarts Y

HSY4577 Hurst Lane, Auckley, Doncaster Other Mineral Extraction & Processing

Y

HSY4657 Barrack Blocks, Finningley, Doncaster Barracks Y

HSY4786 Mosham Road, Blaxton, Doncaster Agglomerated fields Y



Allocation Reference: 226 Allocation Type: Housing Site Name: Land South of Churchfield Rd, Askern

Area (Ha): 5.05 NGR (centre): SE 5545 1364 Settlement: Askern





Summary

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



Allocation Reference: 226 Allocation Type: Housing Site Name: Land South of Churchfield Rd, Askern

Area (Ha): 5.05 NGR (centre): SE 5545 1364 Settlement: Askern


The SMR does not record any monuments or events within the site. One findspot and one event are recorded within the buffer. The findspot relates to a quern and part of a wooden shield, of unknown date, found in Askern Brickfield in 1931, whilst the event was a watching brief along a cable route, where a drain of probable 18th-century date was found to the north of the site, within Campsall Country Park and associated with parkland surrounding Campsall Hall.

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

The Magnesian Limestone in South and West Yorkshire Aerial Photographic Mapping Project plotted small areas of former quarrying within the site. A similar feature was shown to the north of the site, and a large clay pit (Askern Brickfield) was recorded in the western part of the buffer. The extent of Askern Main Colliery was noted to the east of the site, and a brick and tile making works extended into the northern edge of the buffer. Ridge and furrow remains were recorded as earthworks at the southwest edge of the buffer in the 1940s, and as cropmarks in the eastern side.

Historic Environment Characterisation records the present character of the site and much of the buffer as agglomerated fields, where boundary removal in the 20th century has led to a loss of the former pattern of strip fields enclosed from open field. Further character zones within the buffer include Campsall Country Park and Park Plantation, formerly private parkland associated with Campsall Hall, to the northwest; Askern Main Colliery site to the east; and planned social housing to the south, part of the colliery village associated with the mine and dating from the first half of the 20th century.

Historic landfill data records an area of infilled ground in the southwest part of the buffer, formerly part of Askern Brickworks and covering part of the area shown as a clay pit on the aerial mapping.

The site is currently part of a larger field in arable cultivation. It is bounded to the south by housing and is recorded on the current OS map as Askern Field.


The 1854 OS map shows the site as part of a wide field with curving north and south boundaries, and a footpath along the northern boundary. An oval plantation was shown within the field. By 1893, the field had been subdivided. By 1960, the boundary at the northern edge of the field had been removed, and the edge of the site was marked only by the footpath. The plantation had been removed by 1977, when a further footpath crossed the site on a north to south alignment.

Within the buffer, the 1854 map showed fields to the south, on the same east-west alignment as the site but generally narrower and characteristic of strip fields. The area was called Askern Field. To the north was an area called Langleys, at the southeast edge of Campsall Park to the northwest. Little Common was shown to the west, probably also part of the park. Church Field Road ran through the northern part of the buffer. By 1932, Askern Main Colliery was shown to the east of the site, and housing associated with the colliery village was within the southern edge of the buffer. A cemetery was shown to the north of Churchfield Road. Works buildings probably associated with colliery were shown to the immediate east of the site in 1956, and a clay pit was shown to the west. Housing had extended up to the southern boundary of the site by 1960. The clay pit covered most of the field to the west of the site by 1977, by which date it was disused. A spoil heap and slurry lagoon were shown at the north edge of the buffer by 1990.

Survival:

Some small-scale quarrying has been recorded as cropmarks within the site, though these were little individual hollows and are unlikely to have caused widespread sub-surface disturbance. The possibility that larger-scale quarrying was carried out between mapping episodes cannot be discounted, but in general the site has had little recorded disturbance. Agricultural use may have caused some truncation to sub-surface deposits, but below the



plough zone the potential for the survival of unrecorded buried archaeology is considered to be moderate.


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

Significance:

Unknown.


The 2002 aerial photograph showed the site as part of a larger field. Footpaths crossed the site on north-south alignments, but the former footpath along the northern boundary was not depicted. The field had been cultivated. To the east of the site, the buildings at the colliery had been removed by 2002 and the site was being reclaimed. No changes were shown within the site by 2015. The former footpath was visible as a cropmark in 2009, and several areas of pale soil could indicate either geological variations or former quarry pits. The colliery site had been landscaped by 2008. No Lidar coverage is available for this site.


Google Earth coverage 2002, 2008, 2009 & 2015.

RAF/CPE/UK/1880 4075 06-Dec-1946; OS/73311 0045 15-Jun-1973; MAL/82012 0166 29-May-1982; SE5513/2 CCX 14249/6 16-Sep-1992.



04296/01 Quern and Shield Finds of Unknown Date, Askern Brickfield

The top stone of a quern and a fragment of wooden shield both of unknown date found in Askern Brickfield in 1931.

Y

ESY330 Archaeological Watching Brief at Barnsdale Bar, Campsall

In September and December 2004 a watching brief was conducted along the route of proposed electricity cables. Within Campsall Country Park a stone-lined drain crossing the track was encountered. The track is likely to be part of a complex around the 18th century parkland associated with Campsall Hall. The presence of brick fragments supports the 18th century date.

Y



HSY351 Former open fields between Sutton village and Campsall

Agglomerated fields Y Y

HSY331 Askern Main Colliery site Deep Shaft Coal Mine Y

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

HSY367 Marian Crescent, Instoneville Planned Estate (Social Housing) Y

HSY5682 Campsall Country Park, Doncaster Private Parkland Y

HSY5699 Park Plantation, Campsall, Doncaster Plantation Y



Allocation Reference: 227 Allocation Type: Housing/Employment Site Name: West Moor Park, Holme Wood Lane

Area (Ha): 33.45 NGR (centre): SE 6390 0416 Settlement: Armthorpe





Summary

Within site Within buffer zone Scheduled Monument - - Listed Building - - SMR record/event 4 events 3 records/4 events Cropmark/Lidar evidence No Yes Cartographic features of interest No No Estimated sub-surface disturbance Low n/a



Allocation Reference: 227 Allocation Type: Housing/Employment Site Name: West Moor Park, Holme Wood Lane



The SMR records four events within the site, two of which are geophysical surveys. One of these revealed sufficient evidence to suggest that a field system detected to the north of Holme Wood Lane does continue into the site, with some related features including a possible barrow or large ring ditch. However, many features may have been truncated by ploughing as their anomalies were indistinct and discontinuous. The second geophysical survey was located along the eastern end of the site as part of evaluation in advance of a pipeline and also extended outside the site boundary to the northeast. This did not identify any features clearly of archaeological origin within the site. Two events located within the site are evaluations. In 1995 an archaeological evaluation was undertaken on land off Nutwell Lane in the southern part of the site, revealing a number of pits and ditches representing several phases of agricultural land use dating to (at least) the Iron Age and Romano-British periods, although the actual evaluation trenches appear to have been located outside of the site boundary, to the west. Monitoring of the pipeline along the eastern edge of the site revealed three ditches and two pits, all of probable post-medieval date. The ditches appeared to represent field boundaries marked on early OS maps. Two further monuments and one findspot are recorded within the buffer zone: to the south, the Iron Age to Roman remains excavated of Nutwell Lane and a Neolithic flint axe, and in the northern end of the buffer zone a WWII bombing decoy.


The Magnesian Limestone in South and West Yorkshire Aerial Photographic Mapping Project does not record any features within the site itself. Within the buffer zone, to the immediate north, west and south of the site, fragmentary traces of Iron Age to Roman field systems have been recorded. These extend beyond the buffer zone, particularly to the west, and are part of a wider landscape of such features.

The Historic Environment Characterisation records the present character of the majority of the site and the southern and eastern areas of the buffer zone as agglomerated fields, formerly characterised by surveyed enclosure boundaries probably dating to the 1774 Parliamentary Award. Rapid removal of internal boundaries between the 1960s and 1980s left no legibility of previous landscape types. The north-eastern corner of the site and the northern buffer zone is characterised as a commercial distribution centre, with partial legibility of older field boundaries. Within the buffer zone, to the west of the site, the area is characterised as a mix of modern housing types.

The site currently comprises several fields with hedge boundaries, and a triangular plantation at the northwest corner. The M18 motorway forms the eastern boundary of the site, and housing at Armthorpe forms the western boundary.


In 1854, the site covered several fields, labelled Whiphills to the east and Southwood Field to the west. The fields to the west were narrow and rectangular, whilst those to the east were arranged in a more irregular pattern. A drain ran along the northern site boundary, Whiphill Lane ran approximately east-west across the site, and New Close Wood was present in the northeast corner. By 1956, the area at the northern end of the site was labelled Armthorpe. By 1968 the majority of the internal field boundaries had been removed and the drain along the northern site boundary was named Village Drain. The 1982 map depicted some structures along the western boundary of the site, towards the south end, labelled Poultry Houses. The M18 had also been constructed by this time, creating the eastern site boundary.

Within the buffer zone, in 1854 the area surrounding the site was fields, with very little development. At the south-western end of the buffer zone, Southwood Field Farm was present. Whiphill Wood was present in the eastern half of the buffer zone. Little change occurred until 1968, by which time many of the field boundaries had been removed, and some development had begun to occur on Whiphill Lane, to the west of the site. One of the buildings was marked as a depot. By 1982, the northern area to the west of the site was heavily developed with



housing, butting up to the western site boundary. The southern area to the west of the site remained undeveloped, as did the majority of the buffer zone with the exception of the M18, to the immediate east of the site, which had been constructed by this time.

Survival:

With the exception of the Poultry Houses first depicted on the 1982 map at the very western end of the site, no known development has occurred on the site since 1854. The site is likely to have been in agricultural use since at least 1774, although probably earlier. This may have caused some truncation of sub-surface deposits, as confirmed by geophysical survey; the potential for survival of buried remains below the plough zone is likely to be moderate to high. The area has been covered by previous geophysical survey and monitoring. The geophysical survey (ESY766) covered the majority of the site and extended very little into the buffer zone. The results of the survey indicate that Iron Age to Romano-British field systems and associated features may exist on the site. The evaluation (ESY272) recorded a number of pits and ditches representing several phases of agricultural land use dating to (at least) the Iron Age and Romano-British periods. However, the evaluation trenches were located outside the site, and the extent of survival of features within the site is currently unknown.


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

Significance:

Remains associated with Iron Age to Roman agricultural activity and dispersed settlement could be of Local to Regional archaeological significance depending on their extent, nature and condition. Geophysical survey suggested that there has been considerable truncation of remains within the site, and surviving remains are more likely to be of Local significance.


Twenty-first century aerial photographs demonstrate little change on the site since the 1992 map, with the exception of additional housing at the southern end of the western buffer zone, creating the southern site boundary in that area, and more industrial sheds/depots to the north. The site contains a number of fields, all of which appear to be in agricultural use, apart from a triangular area of woodland in the northeast corner.

Other than field boundaries, the only feature of possible archaeological origin shown on the Lidar data is a small area of possible narrow ridge and furrow within the plantation at the northeast corner of the site. It is possible that this relates to plantation management rather than agriculture, though it does not continue across the whole of the plantation.


Google Earth images 2002, 2003, 2008, 2009, 2015. Lidar data tiles SE6303, SE6304, SE6403 and SE6404 DTM 1m.

OS/67249 0021 23-Jun-1967, MAL/71046 0035 03-May-1971, MAL/77018 0001 02-Jul-1977, SE6303/1 NMR 17731/55 18-Jul-2002.



01261/01 Neolithic flint axe Whiphills, Armthorpe

Neolithic axe - Flint axe from Whiphills. Y

04722 C34(b) Armthorpe WWII Bombing Decoy

A 'QL' type (simulated urban lighting) bombing decoy at Armthorpe. The exact location is unknown. It was designed to simulate the lights of Doncaster.

Y

05076 Iron Age and Romano-British

Fieldwalking recovered worked flints and a scatter of pottery interpreted as evidence for Roman, late medieval and post-

Y



field system, Nutwell Lane, Armthorpe

medieval manuring of fields. Trenching identified several phases of activity, the earliest being pits and gullies, cut by later ditches that formed part of a field system that developed over time, with elements being added onto a rectangular enclosure. The ditches were dated to the Iron Age/Romano-British period through artefacts. A series of ditches running on a different alignment are presumed to represent a separate phase of enclosure.

ESY272 Archaeological Evaluation off Nutwell Lane, Armthorpe

In 1995 an archaeological evaluation was undertaken on land off Nutwell Lane. The results have revealed a number of pits and ditches representing several phases of agricultural land use dating to (at least) the Iron Age and Romano-British periods.

Y Y

ESY643 Fluxgate Gradiometer Survey, Nutwell Water Treatment Works, Doncaster Pipeline

A systematic gradiometer survey was carried out at several locations along the route of a proposed water pipeline. Responses thought to be archaeological in nature were found in areas within Areas 3 and 6. Area 3 revealed several pit-type anomalies that are bounded by a former field-system/track. Within Area 6 a number of former field systems have been identified. Medieval to modern cultivation features have also been recorded, with elaborate drainage noted in Area 6 where a herringbone pattern can be seen.

Y Y

ESY766 Geophysical Survey of land adjacent Holme Wood Lane, Armthorpe

Cropmark evidence had suggested that features were present in sandy soils across the site, however few existed where clay dominated areas. The survey revealed sufficient evidence to suggest that a field system detected to the north of Holme Wood Lane does continue into the site and there may be a scatter of related features. However, it was also clear that many features may have been truncated by ploughing as their anomalies are indistinct and discontinuous.

Y Y

ESY908 Archaeological Monitoring and Trial Trenching at Doncaster Water Pipeline, South Yorkshire

Excavations at two sites along the route of the pipeline revealed ditches and trackways corresponding to cropmarks of Iron Age to Romano-British field systems. Excavation of a third site at Kilham Farm close to the site of Romano British pottery kilns also revealed a number of ditches indicative of such field systems. The ditches excavated formed part of a locally, if not regionally important complex of cropmarks in the area to the east of Doncaster. The excavations confirmed the presence of field ditches and trackways identified from cropmarks, as well as identifying features not visible on aerial photographs. Despite an almost complete absence of artefactual and environmental evidence from the features, excavations have provided an insight into the use and re-use of Iron Age and Romano-British field system in the region.

Y Y



HSY4511 West Moor Park (Phase 2), Armthorpe, Doncaster


HSY4514 Southwood Field, Armthorpe, Doncaster Agglomerated fields Y Y

HSY4497 Cantley Common, Cantley, Doncaster Agglomerated fields Y

HSY5002 Wicket Hern Road, Armthorpe, Doncaster Private Housing Estate Y

HSY5003 Tennyson Avenue, Armthorpe, Doncaster Planned Estate (Social Housing) Y

HSY5006 Alder Holt Close, Armthorpe, Doncaster Private Housing Estate Y

HSY5008 Wicket Hern Road, Armthorpe, Doncaster Private Housing Estate Y



HSY5009 Whiphill Lane, Armthorpe, Doncaster Villas/ Detached Housing Y

HSY5011 Locking Drive, Armthorpe, Doncaster Private Housing Estate Y

HSY5023 Cow House Lane, Armthorpe, Doncaster Playing Fields/ Recreation ground Y

HSY5024 Walbank Road, Armthorpe, Doncaster Private Housing Estate Y



Allocation Reference: 228 Allocation Type: Housing Site Name: Land at Barnby Dun

Area (Ha): 1.20 NGR (centre): SE 6189 0975 Settlement: Barnby Dun





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: 228 Allocation Type: Housing Site Name: Land at Barnby Dun



The SMR does not record any monuments or events within the site. One monument is recorded within the buffer, the estimated location of a medieval grange associated with Roche Abbey.

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 does not record any features within the site. A probable trackway and field boundaries, possibly of Iron Age to Roman date, were recorded within the buffer to the east of the site.

Historic Environment Characterisation records the present character of the site and much of the buffer as agglomerated fields, created through boundary loss in the 20th century and resulting in fragmentary visibility of former Parliamentary Enclosure from medieval open field. Character zones within the southern part of the buffer comprise modern private and social housing estates and semi-detached housing.

The site is currently a small field, under arable cultivation. The eastern boundary is formed by Stainforth Road and the southern boundary by modern housing.


The 1854 map shows the field with the same boundary layout as the present day, although in 1948, the southern boundary was not shown and the site was part of a larger field running behind housing on Stainforth Road. The boundary was re-established between 1962 and 1970, when housing had been built up to the southern edge of the former field.

Within the buffer, the 1854 map shows Stainforth Road running along the eastern side of the site and the Great Northern and Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway running through the northern tip of the buffer on an east-west alignment. The remainder of the buffer was fields, with settlement at Barnby Dun just outside the buffer to the southwest. By 1892, a vicarage was shown on Stainforth Road at the south of the buffer, and four semi-detached houses were shown to the north of this by 1930. Housing had stretched further south of the vicarage by 1948, and allotment gardens were shown in a field to the northeast of the site. By 1956, further housing was under construction to the south of Stainforth Road, in the southeast part of the buffer, extending northwards by 1967. The 1970 map showed housing up to the southern boundary of the site. No further significant changes were shown by 1983.

Survival:

The site has been in arable cultivation since at least the mid-19th century, and this is likely to have caused some truncation of buried archaeological deposits. Below the plough zone, the potential for the survival of buried archaeological remains is considered to be moderate to high. Cropmarks showing a trackway and field boundaries of probable Iron Age to Roman date have been recorded within the surrounding area, suggesting there is a good potential for similar remains to extend into the site.


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

Significance:

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




The 2002-2015 aerial photographs show the site as a small field in arable cultivation. The north, east and west edges are bordered by hedgerows, the southern edge by alternating garden fences and hedges. The Lidar data does not show any features of archaeological interest within the site.


Google Earth coverage 2002, 2003, 2008, 2009 & 2015. Lidar data files SE6109, SE6209 DTM 1m.

MAL/60427 81736 21-Jun-1960; SE6209/19 NMR 728/61 29-Jul-1974.



00444/01 Barnby Dun Monastic Grange

A medieval grange belonging to Roche Abbey is known to have been sited at Barnby Dun

Y



HSY4494 Former open fields to the north and east of Barnby Dun


HSY4794 Estate to the north of Barnby Dun, Doncaster Private Housing Estate Y

HSY4795 Talbot Avenue, Barnby Dun, Doncaster Planned Estate (Social Housing) Y

HSY4796 Barnby Dun later council housing, Doncaster Planned Estate (Social Housing) Y

HSY4845 Site of 'Manor Kilns', Barnby Dun, Doncaster Private Housing Estate Y

HSY4852 Stainforth Road, Barnby Dun, Doncaster Semi-Detached Housing Y



Allocation Reference: 229 Allocation Type: Housing Site Name: Pickup Land, Dunsville

Area (Ha): 33.24 NGR (centre): SE6391 0827 Settlement: Hatfield Stainforth





Summary

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



Allocation Reference: 229 Allocation Type: Housing Site Name: Pickup Land, Dunsville

Area (Ha): 33.24 NGR (centre): SE6391 0827 Settlement: Hatfield Stainforth


The SMR does not record any monuments or events within the site. Two monuments and two events are recorded within the buffer. The two monuments are of Iron Age to Roman cropmark field boundaries and trackways, both located to the north of the site. The events comprise geophysical surveys and a trial trench evaluation at two locations at Sandall Grange, to the southwest of the site. These events recorded probable ridge and furrow cultivation remains and a group of features that proved to be of non-archaeological origin.

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

The Magnesian Limestone in South and West Yorkshire Aerial Photographic Mapping Project recorded cropmark evidence of fragmentary Iron Age/Roman ditches, field boundaries and enclosures throughout the site, which extend significantly into the buffer to the north. The character of the cropmark remains immediately to the north suggests a ditched trackway with narrow fields located to either side and possible settlement enclosures to the north. Plough-levelled post-medieval ridge and furrow remains were also recorded as cropmarks within the site, on an east-west orientation, extending into the buffer to the south.

The Historic Environment Characterisation records the present character of the site and much of the buffer as the putative extent of Hatfield medieval deer park, which retains the character of enclosure of the land following disparkment. The west of the buffer is characterised as Barnby Dun Common, an area still represented by a number of hedgerows in addition to a strict geometric pattern of roads and drains, probably dating to the Barnby Dun enclosure award of 1807. Modern private housing is located within the southeast of the buffer.

The site is currently fields, mainly in arable cultivation and divided by drainage ditches with some remnants of hedgerow boundaries.


The 1854 OS map shows the site as a parcel of fields to the north of Park Lane Farm, with probable hedged boundaries. All of the current site boundaries appear on this map. A footpath ran on a roughly north to south alignment through the site, and a shed was located at the northern end of the site. The shed was not shown in 1893. By 1907, a small pond was located at the northern end of the site, which was still present on the 1982 map, but 2002 Google Earth images appear to show it as filled in. By 1962, some of the hedged boundaries seem to have been removed with previous field boundaries marked as drains; this change had increased by 1968.

Within the buffer, the 1853 map showed Low Warren Plantation to the immediate northwest of the site, with Park Lane Farm and Park Lane Cottages to the south of the site, on Park Lane. Park Lane Hall was located a little further to the south. Park Lane Hall had been renamed Wyndthorpe Hall between 1906 and 1930. This was labelled as a residential nursery in 1962. By 1930, a sand pit had been established to the east of the site. By 1948, houses were under construction on Park Lane, High Street and Broadway, to the south and east of the site.

Survival:

The field has been under arable cultivation since at least the mid-19th century, which may have caused some truncation of sub-surface deposits. Below the level affected by ploughing, the potential for the survival of unrecorded buried archaeological remains is considered to be moderate to high. The extent of cropmarks of Iron Age to Roman field systems and trackways to the north of the site suggest there is the potential for associated features to survive within the site, though evaluation and geophysical survey to the immediate southwest of the site (outside the area of cropmarks) did not record any significant archaeological features or deposits.


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



Significance:

The Iron Age to Roman cropmarks within the site form part of a more extensive local landscape of field systems and small farms of that date. Remains of associated activity could be of Local to Regional significance depending on the extent, nature and condition of surviving remains.


The 2002 aerial coverage fields within the site boundary under arable cultivation, with a housing estate to its south and east, and ploughed land to the north and south. The site has remained in arable cultivation, with many of the internal field boundaries removed between 2008 and 2015. Lidar coverage shows faint parallel lines aligned predominantly east-west within the site. This is on roughly the same alignment as recorded ridge and furrow from 1940s aerial photographs; however, the lines within the Lidar data are more likely to relate to modern ploughing.


Google Earth coverage 2002, 2003, 2008, 2009 & 2015. Lidar data tile SE6307, SE6308, SE3407 & SE6409 DTM 1m. RAF/CPE/UK/1880 5064 06-Dec-1946; SE6308/39 NMR 12797/15 10-Jul-1996; SE6308/14 DNR 1295/37 09-Jul-1979.



02516/01 Possible Iron Age or RB Unclassified Cropmarks, Barnby Dun / Kirk Sandall

Possible Iron Age or Romano-British cropmarks shown on aerial photographs.

Y

02549/01 Iron Age or RB Unclassified Cropmarks, Hatfield


Y

ESY1371 Evaluations at Sandall Grange Lagoons, Dunsville, Doncaster

Geophysical survey undertaken ahead of construction of an irrigation lagoon identified a small cluster of features of possible archaeological origin. Trial trench evaluation indicated that these features were non-archaeological in origin. The area may have been waterlogged since the last glaciation.

Y

ESY480 Geophysical Survey of land at Sandall Grange

In October 2003 a geophysical survey was undertaken on land at Sandall Grange. No anomalies of likely archaeological origin were identified. Parallel positive linear anomalies aligned north-south probably relate to ridge and furrow ploughing.

Y



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


Y Y

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

Y

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

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



Allocation Reference: 231 Allocation Type: Housing Site Name: Parks Farm, Dunscroft

Area (Ha): 59.71 NGR (centre): SE 6445 0966 Settlement: Hatfield Stainforth





Summary

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



Allocation Reference: 231 Allocation Type: Housing Site Name: Parks Farm, Dunscroft



The SMR records one monument within the site, relating to cropmarks showing field boundaries and enclosures of Iron Age to Romano-British date, located at the very northern end of the site. Five monuments are present within the buffer zone; to the northwest, cropmarks of Iron Age to Romano-British date, and clustered to the southeast, four individual findspots, two of Roman pottery and two of Roman coins.

There are no Scheduled Ancient Monuments or Listed Buildings within the site or buffer zone.

The Magnesian Limestone in South and West Yorkshire Aerial Photographic Mapping Project records cropmarks relating to Iron Age/Romano-British boundary ditches and trackways, most predominantly clustered at the northern and southern ends of the site, including possible settlement enclosures at the northwest side. These extend westwards into the buffer. Also within the buffer, post-medieval ridge and furrow is recorded as cropmarks to the northeast of the site.

The Historic Environment Characterisation records the present character of the site and much of the buffer as the putative extent of Hatfield medieval deer park, which retains the character of enclosure of the land following disparkment. To the southeast of the buffer, the site extends into an area characterised as planned estate (social housing), comprising inter-war social housing, probably related to the growth of the nearby Hatfield Colliery. Within the northwest of the buffer is a small area of land, the layout of which largely dates to the 1825 enclosure award, although boundary removal in the mid-late 20th century has much enlarged the scale of the original units.

The site is currently four fields in arable cultivation, bounded to the north by a railway line.


The 1855 OS map shows the site as a parcel of fields, mostly with hedgerow boundaries. In the southwest corner is a small patch of woodland labelled Whin Covert, which by 1892 had been renamed Parks Wood. By 1948 this woodland had been removed, and the area amalgamated with fields to the north and south to form a single larger field. By 1930 a sand pit had been established in the northernmost field, labelled as disused by 1962, and currently a small patch of woodland. By 1962 two east to west aligned trackways had been formed across the site, which are still present today. By 1982, many of the field boundaries within the site appear to have been removed.

The 1855 OS map shows the Great Northern Railway and the associated signal post of Hatfield Junction located to the north of the site. To the northwest of the site is a cluster of buildings labelled The Parks, with Parks Farm located to the west. By 1930, Broadway had been constructed to the east of the site, with houses present on either side and Dunscroft County Primary School was located to the northeast. Further development had occurred by 1962, with the construction of The Oval and associated housing to the northeast of the site. By 1982, Brightside Manor Farm had been constructed to the southeast of the site, almost opposite Parks Farm.

Survival:

Since the establishment of the surveyed enclosure in the 19th century, the site has been under cultivation. This may have impacted on the preservation of below-ground remains through truncation. The potential for the survival of buried archaeology below the zone impacted by ploughing is considered to be high. Cropmark features of Iron Age to Roman fields, enclosures and trackways are shown within the site and to the immediate west and north.


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



Significance:

The Iron Age/Roman cropmarks within the site form part of a wider local landscape of field systems, trackways and dispersed settlement. Buried remains associated with such activity could be of Local to Regional significance depending on their extent, nature and condition.


Twenty-first century aerial photographs show the site as arable, enclosed by hedge and modern fence boundaries. Veteran trees are preserved along the hedgerows. Subtle cropmarks relating to earlier field boundaries and tracks are visible on the 2002 and 2009 Google Earth coverage, including one probable trackway in the central area not recorded by the Magnesian Limestone Project. Lidar data only covers the southern two thirds of the site and does not contain any previously unrecorded features.


Google Earth coverage, 2002, 2003, 2008 & 2009. Lidar data tile SE6409 DTM 1m.

MAL/60427 81729 21-Jun-1960; SE6410/1 DNR 872/18A-19 03-Jul-1976; SE6309/5 NMR 2172/1326 27-Jul-1984.



00672/01 Roman Pottery Sherds, Dunscroft

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

Y

00675/01 Roman Pottery Sherds, Dunscroft

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

01033/01 Roman Coin, Hatfield

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

Y

01253/01 Cropmarks of Iron Age - Romano-British date

Rectangular enclosures or ? Small fields. Y

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

Iron Age or Romano-British field system shown on aerial photographs.

Y

04316/01 Roman Coin, Broadway, Hatfield

Bronze sestertius of Marcus Aurelius. Y





Y Y

HSY4433 Former open fields west of Stainforth, Doncaster


Y

HSY4600 Meadow Court Stadium, Doncaster Sports Ground Y

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

Y

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

HSY4687 Miners Welfare Sports Grounds, Dunsville, Doncaster




HSY4688 Late twentieth century estates, Dunscroft, Doncaster

Planned Estate (Social Housing) Y

HSY4691 Greenspace fragment in Dunscroft/ Hatfield, Doncaster

Public Park Y

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



Allocation Reference: 233 Allocation Type: Housing Site Name: Well Green Farmstead, High Street






Summary

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



Allocation Reference: 233 Allocation Type: Housing Site Name: Well Green Farmstead, High Street



The SMR holds no records for the site or the buffer zone.


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

The Historic Environment Characterisation records the present character of the site as a farm complex situated within the historic core area of Barnby Dun village. The farm complex currently consists of large modern agricultural buildings, which appear to have been much reorganised between 1967 and 1982. Partial legibility of earlier vernacular buildings is likely. Much of the western half of the buffer zone consists of enclosed land comprising an irregular enclosure pattern between Barnby Dun and Kirk Sandall. Although compromised by the removal of some boundaries, the character area retains enough irregular hedged boundaries to suggest its pre-parliamentary enclosure origin. The eastern half of the buffer comprises modern housing estates, schools and civil and municipal buildings, which are part of the modern core of Barnby Dun.

The site is currently mostly occupied by farm buildings, which most recently served as a farm shop. There is a small area of land to the east of the site which stands empty and fronts onto High Street, which serves as a car park to the shop.


On the 1854 OS map the site was part of at least three small fields. Some buildings were present on the site, fronting onto the High Street, although their function is unclear. Town End Drain was shown running along the western boundary of the site. By 1892 further buildings occupied the site, a little set back from the High Street, and at least two pumps were present within the site boundary. By 1906, further buildings had been added to the site, leaving only the north-western corner devoid of buildings, and depicted as containing trees. The site remained largely unchanged until the 1962 map, by which date a rectangular building had been constructed over part of the area of trees in the north-western corner, and an L-shaped building had been built to the south of it, next to an existing building. By 1970 major changes had occurred on the site, and it appears that all of the existing buildings were cleared from the site and replaced with one large structure, set back from the High Street, as it remains today.

Within the buffer zone, by 1854 the historic core of Barnby Dun was shown in the north-eastern half, and the south-western half was mostly fields, with the River Don Navigation at the very edge of the buffer zone. By 1892 a smithy had been established just to the north of the site, on the opposite side of the High Street, with a school a little further to the north. By 1962 many new houses had been built within the eastern half of the buffer zone, along Top Road.

Survival:

Several buildings were already present within the site on the 1854 OS map, some fronting onto the High Street and some set back from it. The function of these buildings is unclear, but as they are not specifically labelled on the map, it is likely that they are residential or agricultural buildings. These buildings had either been cleared or incorporated into the present large structure set back from the High Street by the 1970s, with a small track and car park at the front of the building. The footprint of the 1970s building does not cover the buildings fronting onto the High Street shown on the 1854 map, hence there is moderate to high potential for survival of footings or cellars related to these buildings. The depth of foundations and extent of disturbance caused by the current and former buildings is unclear, but there is likely to be poor potential for survival of buried archaeological remains for the area within the footprint of the current building. At least one possible historic building survives within the current complex.





Significance:

Unknown. Standing and buried remains of agricultural buildings are likely to be considered of Local archaeological significance.


Twenty-first century aerial photographs depict the site as occupied by a large farm/agricultural building, set back from the High Street, with a car park fronting onto the street. Street View shows most of the buildings as being lightweight, relatively modern barns or sheds, though at least one stone-built structure, probably a house, survives at the southeast side of the site, possibly of historic interest. There is no Lidar data for the site


Google Earth images 2002, 2003, 2008, 2009, 2015. Street View 2012. MAL/67023 0049 31-Mar-1967.



HSY4853 Well Green, Barnby Dun, Doncaster Farm Complex Y Y

HSY4428 Thorpe Marsh enclosed land, Doncaster Agglomerated fields Y

HSY4633 Land between Kirk Sandall and Barnby Dun, Doncaster

Piecemeal Enclosure Y

HSY4793 Mallard Avenue and Environs, Barnby Dun, Doncaster


HSY4795 Talbot Avenue, Barnby Dun, Doncaster Planned Estate (Social Housing) Y

HSY4847 Barnby Dun, High Street area, Doncaster Vernacular Cottages Y

HSY4848 Schools Library Service, Barnby Dun, Doncaster Civil & Municipal Buildings Y

HSY4849 Marquis Gardens, Barnby Dun, Doncaster Private Housing Estate Y

HSY4851 Barnby Dun Primary School, Doncaster School Y

HSY4859 Recreation Ground, Barnby Dun, Doncaster Playing Fields/ Recreation ground Y



Allocation Reference: 234 Allocation Type: Housing Site Name: Broad Axe, Scawthorpe






Summary

Within site Within buffer zone Scheduled Monument 1 1 Listed Building - 1 SMR record/event 2 records 7 records/4 events Cropmark/Lidar evidence Yes Yes Cartographic features of interest No Yes Estimated sub-surface disturbance Low n/a



Allocation Reference: 234 Allocation Type: Housing Site Name: Broad Axe, Scawthorpe



The SMR records two monuments within the site. These comprise a rectilinear enclosure and field boundaries of probable Iron Age to Roman date, identified as cropmarks within the western side of the site; and the suggested route of a major Roman road leading from York to Lincoln via Doncaster. The latter is also within the buffer, which contains four further monuments, two findspots and four events. Two of the monument records and two of the events are also associated with the Roman road, which survives as an earthwork in places along the southwest boundary of the site (rather than running through it). Trial trenching identified probable remains of the road surface within this area, and the feature is also a Scheduled Monument. The other monuments are of cropmark enclosures and field boundaries similar to that within the site, and forming part of a wider landscape of Iron Age to Roman agriculture and dispersed settlement within the area. A Roman coin was found close to one of these enclosures. The other events comprised a geophysical survey at Don Valley School that identified the possible remains of Scawthorpe Grange at the northeast edge of the buffer, and evaluation trenching at Emley Drive to the southwest of the site, which did not identify any archaeological features, though some abraded Roman pottery was found in the plough soil.

No listed buildings are located within the site. One Scheduled Monument, the earthwork remains of the Roman road, is located along the southern boundary of the site, with the Scheduled area just extending into the edge of the site. One grade II listed milepost is located to the northeast of the site.

The Magnesian Limestone in South and West Yorkshire Aerial Photographic Mapping Project recorded the rectilinear enclosure and field boundaries within the western side of the site, and further fragmentary trackways and field boundaries within the western half of the buffer. These features are likely of Iron Age to Roman date.

Historic Environment Characterisation records the present character of the site and the northwest part of the buffer as agglomerated fields created through the loss of boundaries in the 20th century with only partial legibility of the former Parliamentary Enclosure fields dating to 1761. Further character zones within the buffer include further agglomerated fields around Scawsby village, and a mixture of semi-detached, private and social housing estates, two schools and a distribution centre.

The site is currently a large field in arable cultivation. It is bounded to the northeast by York Road, to the southwest by the Roman Ridge and to the southeast by the edge of housing plots fronting onto Stanley Road.


The site is shown on the 1854 map as five fields between York Road (the Great North Road) and the Roman Ridge bridle road. The fields have regular boundaries characteristic of Parliamentary Enclosure, and the area is called Broad Axe Field. By 1892, one of the field boundaries in the northern part of the site had been removed to create a larger field, possibly a small area of parkland associated with Scawthorpe Farm. The 1961 map showed that the field boundary in the north part of the site had been reinstated, though it and the northernmost boundary had been removed by 1971. By 1992, all the internal field boundaries had been removed to create the present large field, though the current northern boundary has been altered since 1992.

Within the buffer, the 1854 map shows Scawthorpe Farm immediately to the northeast of the site. Other than the roads, including Pipering Lane and Middle Gate heading east from York Road, the remainder of the buffer was fields. The 1892 map showed ornamental gardens to the east of Scawthorpe Farm, and a lodge at the entrance of a newly-created curving driveway, suggesting the farm had become a house of some substance. It had a small gasometer to the rear. A further house and gardens were shown to the north of the farm, and Scawthorpe Grange was shown to the east of York Road. In 1906, a small group of terraced cottages were shown to the northwest of Scawthorpe Farm. Stanley Road, to the south of the site, was first shown on the 1948 map, with housing under development to the north and south of the road. Further housing was under construction to the north of Scawthorpe Grange. By 1956, the area to the east of the Grange was also being laid out for housing, and by 1961 the Grange had been demolished and a school built on the site. Scawthorpe Farm had been renamed



Scawthorpe Hall by that date. A further school was shown to the east of York Road by 1971.

Survival:

The site has been in intensive arable cultivation in the later 20th century, and this may have disturbed and truncated sub-surface deposits. The potential for the survival of buried archaeology below the plough zone is considered to be high. An enclosure and field boundaries of probable Iron Age to Roman date have been recorded as cropmarks within the northwest part of the site, and there is the potential for similar remains to extend throughout the site. A Roman road runs along the southwest boundary and associated deposits may continue into the southwest edge of the site.


Further archaeological investigations are likely to be required if the site is brought forward for development. The impact of development on the setting of the Roman Ridge Scheduled Monument will need to be considered.

Significance:

The Roman road along the southwest boundary is a Scheduled Monument, and thus of National archaeological significance. The Scheduled area extends into the southwest edge of the site. Remains of Iron Age to Roman settlement and agricultural activity could be of Local to Regional significance depending on the nature, extent and condition of surviving remains.


The 2002-2015 aerial photographs show the site as a large arable field, with none of the internal boundaries surviving. The Roman Ridge runs along the southwest side of the site as a footpath and bridleway, and the field boundaries are partially hedged. To the northeast of the site, Scawthorpe Hall and its cottages had been demolished by 2002 and a housing estate built on its site, though some of the ornamental planting survives along the roadside frontage. Further housing had been built to the southwest of the site by 2002. No cropmarks are visible within the field on any of the photographs, but these were not taken at a suitable time in the cropping regime for these to show clearly.

Lidar data shows the Roman Ridge along the southwest boundary of the site as a path and low bank. The only features within the site are very slight earthworks that probably mark the removed field boundaries. There is a gentle hollow in the southeast corner of the site, which could be natural, or the site of an infilled quarry pit.


Google Earth 2002, 2003, 2008, 2009 & 2015. Lidar data files SE5405 & SE5505 DTM 1m.

MAL/60427 81665 21-Jun-1960; MAL/71050 0096 03-May-1971; SE5405/1 DNR 2432/19 02-Aug-1991; SE5405/13 NMR 12521/72 12-Jul-1994.



Site? Buffer?

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

1151492 Milepost approximately 75 metres to north west of junction with Piperings Lane

II Y





00062/01 Iron Age or Roman-British Enclosure, Bentley

A large enclosure shows as a crop mark in fields north of Scawsby. The site lies adjacent the Roman Road through Adwick-le-Street. A second century AD coin was found in the same field in the nineteen seventies.

Y

01018/01 Roman Road running north west from Doncaster

Roman Road running north west from Doncaster. Cut in 1947 by gas main.

Y

02877/01 Roman Coin, Bentley

Roman AE Sestertius of Hadrian. Rome mint AD 119-121. Found on the surface in 1973.

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 (Danum) towards Castleford (Lagentivm).

Y

04016/01 Enclosure, Bentley with Arksey

2 enclosures, plus other unidentified features. Y

04179/01 Pottery Find, Emley Drive, Scawsby

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

Y

04915 Roman Road; Bawtry to Adwick Le Street via Doncaster

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

Y Y

04935 Iron Age or Romano-British settlement site, Scawsby

Aerial photograph transcription identifies an enclosure and field system remains.

Y

ESY525 Archaeological Evaluation of Land off Emley Drive

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

Y

ESY986 Survey of Roman Ridge Cycle path route

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

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

ESY1473 Geophysical survey at Don Valley School, Scawthorpe

A geophysical survey was undertaken on the playing fields of Don Valley School. The possible remains of Scawthorpe Grange were identified. No other anomalies likely to be of archaeological origin were identified.

Y





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


HSY4296 Land around Scawsby Village, Doncaster Agglomerated fields Y

HSY4921 Norman Crescent / Stanley Road, Doncaster Semi-Detached Housing Y

HSY4923 Between Barnsley Road and Roman Ridge, Scawsby, Doncaster

Semi-Detached Housing Y

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

HSY4926 Scawsby Rosedale Schools, Doncaster School Y

HSY4927 Don Valley High School, Scawthorpe, Doncaster

School Y

HSY4933 Scawthorpe Avenue, Doncaster Semi-Detached Housing Y

HSY4940 Springcroft Drive, Scawthorpe, Doncaster Planned Estate (Social Housing) Y

HSY5143 Scawthorpe Cottages, Doncaster Private Housing Estate Y

HSY5154 York Road, Scawthorpe, Doncaster Distribution Centre Y



Allocation Reference: 235 Allocation Type: Minerals Site Name: Warmsworth Quarry Extension






Summary

Within site Within buffer zone Scheduled Monument - - Listed Building - 1 SMR record/event 3 records 9 records/2 events Cropmark/Lidar evidence Yes Yes Cartographic features of interest No Yes Estimated sub-surface disturbance Low n/a



Allocation Reference: 235 Allocation Type: Minerals Site Name: Warmsworth Quarry Extension



The SMR records two findspots and one monument within the site: two prehistoric arrowheads, and a 19th-century boat yard ‘at Levitt Hagg Quarry’, which is presumably wrongly located and should be further to the north, outside the site. The was recorded during an archaeological survey at Levitt Hagg Quarry that was located at the northeast edge of the buffer. Nine monuments and one further event are recorded in the buffer zone: four complexes of fissures and a small cave recorded in a survey of Nearcliff Quarry, the course of the Roman road from Templeborough, a timber-framed house, earthworks to the east of Butterbusk Farm, and lime kilns recorded in the Levitt Hagg Quarry survey.

There are no Scheduled Monuments or listed buildings within the site. One grade II listed building is recorded in the buffer, the derelict 17th-century farmhouse at Butterbusk Farm.

The Magnesian Limestone in South and West Yorkshire Aerial Photographic Mapping Project recorded an Iron Age-Roman trackway and fragmentary ditches as cropmarks within the southwest part of the site. The extent of two quarries were recorded in the northern part of the buffer zone, along with earthwork features of uncertain date in the vicinity of Butterbusk Farm (also recorded on the SMR).

The Historic Environment Characterisation records the present character of the site as Agglomerated Fields. These were produced by the loss of strip enclosure boundaries between 1948 and 1973. There is partial legibility of this underlying character in a few surviving S-curve boundaries and the 17th-century Butterbusk Farm. This area includes a now invisible former 'Butterbusk Green'. Character zones within the buffer are defined as Ancient Woodland, Landfill, Quarry, Semi-Natural Woodland, Artificial Lake, Private Housing Estate and Villas/Detached Housing.

The site is currently a large field in arable cultivation, bounded to the south by Sheffield Road and to the north by woodland.


The 1854 Ordnance Survey map showed the site as fields. Several of the plots had been amalgamated by the time of the 1892 map, with further amalgamation shown in 1930 and 1961. The last of the 19th-century field boundaries had been removed by 1987. The 1994 OS map showed a track running into the site from Butterbusk Farm at the west.

The 1854 OS map showed numerous features within the buffer zone, including fields, field boundaries, Pot Riding Wood, Weed Wood, the Doncaster and South Yorkshire Railway line, a disused limestone quarry, the River Don, lime kilns, Far Cliff Quarries, bridle roads, Warmsworth Cliff or Levitt Hagg, Butterbusk Green, Butterbusk Farm, Sheffield Road, Middle Field and Beck Field. Far Cliff Quarries had been extended and included tramways and further lime kilns by 1894. Butterbusk Green was shown as rough heath at that date. Warmsworth Lime Works was shown to the east of the site on the 1930 OS map, with a Dolomite & Lime Works at the west and several Doncaster Water Works air shafts shown on the south side of Sheffield Road. Housing was shown within the buffer on the 1956 map, with a spoilheap at the former site of the Dolomite Works by 1966. Far Cliff Quarries were disused by that date. Further housing was shown in the buffer on the 1980 and 1987 maps.

Survival:

The site has been fields since at least 1854. Arable cultivation may have caused some truncation of sub-surface deposits, but below the plough zone, the potential for buried archaeological remains is considered to be moderate. Probable Iron Age to Roman remains have been recorded as cropmarks in the southwest part of the site and further remains could extend across the site.





Significance:

Unknown.


Twenty-first century aerial photographs show the site as a field in arable use. There is no Lidar data for this site.


Google Earth: 2002, 2003, 2008, 2009 and 2015. Bing Maps: 2015.



Site? Buffer?

1286381 Derelict Farmhouse at Butterbusk Farm II Y



01062/01 Mesolithic Flint Tanged Arrowhead Find, Conisbrough Parks

Mesolithic flint tanged arrowhead found in ploughed field. Presently located at the Doncaster Museum (96.68)

Y

01553/01 Post-Medieval Timber Framed 'T' Plan House, Butterbusk, Conisbrough Parks

Timber framed 'T' plan house. Derelict and under threat of demolition (June 1978).

Y

02129/01 Earthworks and buildings north-east of Butterbusk Green, Edlington

Earthworks and indication of stone buildings in field north east of Butterbusk Farm, some tradition of connection with Conisborough Castle.

Y

02576/01 Flint Arrowhead, Sprotbrough

?Early Prehistoric flint arrowhead Y





04172/04 Levitt Hagg Quarry 19th Century Boat Yard, Warmsworth

A mid to late 19th century boat yard. Y



Y

05222 A Large Fissure and Small Cave, Nearcliff Quarry

Unit NQ1: Large fissure exposed in the face of the quarry. The quarry face is approximately 4.5m high and the fissure extends for its full height. The potential for the recovery of archaeological remains is moderate while that for faunal

Y



remains is moderate to high.

05223 Possible Fissure, Nearcliff Quarry

NQ2: The face of the quarry is formed of a lightly cemented breccia deposit. The deposit is probably the fill from a fissure but with only one edge visible it is impossible to determine its true width or orientation. The potential for the recovery of archaeological remains is moderate while that for faunal remains is moderate to high.

Y

05224 Large Complex of Fissures, Nearcliff Quarry

NQ3: Large fissure complex made up of three smaller fissures. The total width of the complex was 10m and had a maximum height of 7m. The potential for the recovery of archaeological will be higher if this was once a cave, but it is assumed to be moderate until this is confirmed, the potential for faunal remains is moderate to high.

Y

05225 Large Fissure Complex and Cave, Nearcliff Quarry

NQ4: Fissure complex formed from two fissures. Both are wider at the top where they join together to form one large fissure with a total width of approximately 7m. Lower down the two fissures are separated by large block of in-situ bedrock. A small cave is located at the base of this complex formed in the voids between the large blocks. The potential for the recovery of archaeological remains is moderate while that for faunal remains is moderate to high.

Y

ESY247 Archaeological Survey at Levitt Hagg Quarry

In Winter 1993 a survey was undertaken at Levitt Hagg Quarry - remains of kilns, workshops and a boat loading chute were recorded.

Y

ESY372 Archaeological Survey of Nearcliff Quarry

In 2005 a survey was conducted at Nearcliff Quarry to examine the archaeological potential of site, which is known to contain rock shelters used from the Palaeolithic onwards. The survey identified a number of fissures and related features in the area that could contain archaeological deposits.

Y



HSY5406 Land between Warmsworth and New Edlington, Doncaster


HSY4282 Pot Ridings Wood and Sprotbrough Wood, Sprotbrough, Doncaster

Ancient Woodland Y

HSY5402 Dolomite Quarry, Sheffield Road, Doncaster Landfill Y


HSY5409 Near Cliffe Quarry, Sheffield Road, Doncaster Quarry Y

HSY5410 Nearcliff and Farcliffe Woods, Conisbrough, Doncaster

Semi Natural Woodland Y






Allocation Reference: 237 Allocation Type: Minerals Site Name: Warmsworth Quarry Extension (2)






Summary

Within site Within buffer zone Scheduled Monument - - Listed Building - - SMR record/event 2 records/1 event 7 records/1 event Cropmark/Lidar evidence Yes Yes Cartographic features of interest No Yes Estimated sub-surface disturbance Extensive n/a



Allocation Reference: 237 Allocation Type: Minerals Site Name: Warmsworth Quarry Extension (2)



The SMR records one findspot, one monument and one event within the site: quern stone fragments, lime kilns and an archaeological survey at Levitt Hagg Quarry that extended north into the buffer. Two findspots and five monuments are recorded in the buffer zone: the course of the Roman road from Templeborough, two flint arrowheads, Levitt Hagg and Mission Hall, Levitt Hagg Quarry and its tramway, lime kilns and a 19th-century boat yard, the last four all recorded in the archaeological survey at Levitt Hagg Quarry. The boat yard may be wrongly located on the SMR data and is more likely to be to the north of the site, adjacent to the river.

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

The Magnesian Limestone in South and West Yorkshire Aerial Photographic Mapping Project recorded ridge and furrow as cropmarks at the eastern edge of the site, depicted on a photograph dated to 1955, and the extent of a large quarry, recorded in 1992 as covering most of the northwest and eastern sides of the site. and two quarries within the site. Levelled ridge and furrow, quarries and the site of a military or workers’ hostel are plotted in the buffer zone.

The Historic Environment Characterisation records the present character of the majority of the site, within the southern and eastern sides, as Dolomite Quarry, a modern extension to a 19th-century limestone quarry. The northwest part of the site is recorded as landfill within the former quarry, with historic mapping from 1851-1948 showing limestone extraction sites along the ‘Warmsworth Cliff or Levitt Hagg’ linked to lime kilns and wharfage by the River Don. This cliff edge moves progressively towards the full extent of this polygon by 1966. The northwest tip is recorded as semi-natural woodland within formerly quarried areas. Character zones within the buffer are defined as Agglomerated Fields, Ancient Woodland, Landfill, Quarry, Artificial Lake, Private Housing Estate, Allotments, Public Park, Terraced Housing, Semi-Detached Housing, School, Planned Estate (Social Housing), and Vernacular Cottages.

A quarry currently covers almost the entire site, with thin strips of surviving fields/buffer areas around the edges and tree screens. The northwest tip of the site is covered with woodland.


The 1854 Ordnance Survey map showed the site as part of Middle Field. Several fields occupied the site at that date. A relatively small limestone quarry was shown adjacent to Sheffield Road, which was marked as ‘Tin Leys’. Extensive quarrying had taken place in the northwest part of the site by 1892. Several lime kilns and waggonways were shown at that date, while a lime kiln was also marked in the quarry along Sheffield Road. The latter quarry and kiln were disused by 1903. A small allotment garden was shown adjacent to the former quarry on the 1930 OS map. Warmsworth Lime Works were marked in the northwest part of the site at that date. The late 19th-century features had largely been replaced by 1930. The lime works had been extended by 1956, altering the course of the bridle road through the site. A large quarry and several buildings were shown at the lime works on the 1961 OS map. This part of the site was marked ‘Dolomite Quarry’ on the 1994 map. The allotments were not shown at that date.

The 1854 OS map showed numerous features within the buffer zone, including fields, several limestone quarries with lime kilns and tramways, the Doncaster and South Yorkshire Railway line, the River Don, bridle roads, Calf’s Head Lane, Warmsworth Cliff or Levitt Hagg, Sheffield Road, Don Field, Middle Field, a pinfold and land belonging to West Farm. A Mission Room, a smithy, Station bridge, Mill Lane, further quarries and an entrance to a water works’ tunnel were marked within the buffer on the 1892 OS map. Housing, Warmsworth Goods Station and the LNER railway line were shown in 1930, with allotments and further housing shown in 1948. Further housing and a school were marked in 1956, with extensive housing development having taken place by 1966. The limestone quarries to the north of the site were disused by 1994.



Survival:

The north and northwest parts of the site were quarried extensively from the late 19th century. The majority of the remainder of the site appears to have been quarried between 1994 and 2002. Any archaeological remains within the footprint of the extraction zone will have been destroyed. There is a moderate potential for the survival or archaeological remains within the grassed areas forming the edges of the site, though earthen bunds have been created in this area and the whole site is likely to have been stripped of topsoil when the bunds were created. It is considered that any surviving remains would be too fragmentary to interpret, as well as possibly disturbed and contaminated.

Though in general the archaeological potential is considered to be low, it is possible that remains associated with the former lime works could survive within the woodland at the northwest tip, an area not covered by the previous survey. The potential for subterranean fissures and swallow holes within the limestone, which could contain archaeological or palaeological remains, should also be considered.


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

Significance:

Negligible.


Twenty-first century aerial photographs show the site as a large quarry, with tree screens around it and grassed edges. There is Lidar coverage for the eastern two thirds of the site, showing a further area of quarrying along the southern boundary of the site (obscured by trees on the aerial view), and an earthen embankment around the north and east edges of the quarry, probably to screen the workings.


Google Earth: 2002, 2003, 2008, 2009 and 2015. Bing Maps: 2015. Lidar data tiles SE5300 & SE5400 DTM 1m.




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

Y

01062/01 Mesolithic Flint Tanged Arrowhead Find, Conisbrough Parks

Mesolithic flint tanged arrowhead found in ploughed field. Presently located at the Doncaster Museum (96.68).

Y

01897/01 Three Romano-British Quern Stones and Pottery Finds, Warmsworth

Three quern stone fragments and a Romano-British grey ware rim recovered from the quarry area.

Y

02576/01 Flint Arrowhead, Sprotbrough

?Early Prehistoric flint arrowhead. Y

04171/01 Levitt Hagg and Mission Hall, Warmsworth

A quarrying hamlet and meeting house. Y

04172/01 Levitt Hagg Quarry, Warmsworth

A mid-18th century Magnesian Limestone quarry Y




Industrial period lime kilns. Y


Industrial period lime kilns. Y

04172/04 Levitt Hagg Quarry 19th Century Boat Yard, Warmsworth

A mid to late 19th century boat yard. Y

04172/05 Levitt Hagg Quarry Tramway, Warmsworth

A tramway running from the quarry face to the river bank. Y

ESY247 Archaeological Survey at Levitt Hagg Quarry

In Winter 1993 a survey was undertaken at Levitt Hagg Quarry. Remains of kilns; workshops, a tramway and a boat loading chute were recorded.

Y Y



HSY5402 Dolomite Quarry, Sheffield Road, Doncaster Landfill Y Y

HSY5404 Dolomite Quarry, Sheffield Road, Doncaster Quarry Y Y

HSY5410 Nearcliff and Farcliffe Woods, Conisbrough, Doncaster

Semi Natural Woodland Y Y

HSY4241 Cadeby fields, Cadeby, Doncaster Agglomerated fields Y

HSY4282 Pot Ridings Wood and Sprotbrough Wood, Sprotbrough, Doncaster

Ancient Woodland Y

HSY5406 Land between Warmsworth and New Edlington, Doncaster


HSY5407 Former Don and Tenter Fields, Warmsworth, Doncaster




HSY5667 Edlington allotments Allotments Y




HSY5679 Warmsworth Middle school, Warmsworth, Doncaster

School Y



HSY5986 Warmsworth, Doncaster Vernacular Cottages Y




Allocation Reference: 238 Allocation Type: Minerals Site Name: Land east of Kirk Lane

Area (Ha): 11.00 NGR (centre): SE 6445 1607 Settlement:



Historic landscape significance Major


Summary

Within site Within buffer zone Scheduled Ancient 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: 238 Allocation Type: Minerals Site Name: Land east of Kirk Lane

Area (Ha): 11.00 NGR (centre): SE 6445 1607 Settlement:


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


The Magnesian Limestone in South and West Yorkshire Aerial Photographic Mapping Project recorded 20th-century bombing range marker structures within the eastern part of the site, and post-medieval earthwork ridge and furrow remains within the site and the buffer zone, though the site has been in recent arable cultivation and it is not known whether the earthworks have been levelled since they were photographed in 1947.

Historic Environment Characterisation records the present character of the site as lying within an area of post-medieval to modern strip fields, representing a particularly fine example of the piecemeal enclosure of an open field landscape by enclosure of individual groups of arable strips. There has been some boundary loss in the 20th century. Fragmentary legibility of earlier ridge and furrow and the boundaries of former open fields is possible.

The historic character of the buffer zone is similar to that of the site itself, with the area to the southeast of the site forming part of the Fosterhouses/Fishlake Lanes, Fishlake, Doncaster area, which features exceptionally well preserved strip enclosures, shown on the 1825 Enclosure Award plan. Fragmentary legibility of older elements is possible, but the area is an important landscape character unit in its own right. The area within the buffer zone to the southeast of the site is represented by semi-regular fields surrounded by hedgerows and containing ridge and furrow earthworks, with the partial legibility of earlier features likely.

The boundaries of the site respect the boundaries extant in 1825, and are mostly hedgerows. The southern site boundary also acts as a drain. The site has been in agricultural use since at least 1825 and remains undeveloped, arable land at the present day.


The site was shown as strip enclosure on the 1825 Thorne Enclosure map, and by 1853 a total of five fields were shown, with the southern boundary formed by a drainage dyke and the northern end by Fowdall Road. One of the field boundaries was shown only as a row of trees in 1892 and not at all in 1906, creating two larger fields at the west side of the site. The lost boundary was shown again in 1962; it is unclear whether it was reinstated or was mistakenly omitted on the earlier maps.

Within the buffer zone, little change has occurred since the first edition OS map. A collection of farm buildings was built to the southwest of the site at the end of the 20th century, but the site and immediate hinterland has remained relatively undisturbed since the enclosure award.

Survival:

The site has been drained and cultivated since at least the mid-19th century, which may have impacted on the preservation of below-ground remains through truncation and desiccation. The potential for the survival of buried archaeology below the zone impacted by ploughing is considered to be moderate to high. The surviving field boundaries are likely to pre-date the Parliamentary Enclosure and are of significant historic landscape value.


The site is within an area characterised as having major historic landscape significance, and further consideration should be made of the site’s capacity for mineral extraction. Further investigation would be required to establish the potential for buried archaeological evidence to survive on this site.

Significance:

The significance of any buried archaeology is Unknown. The historic landscape significance is considered to be Major.



Aerial Photographs & Lidar Summary: Twenty-first-century aerial photographs show the site as fields in arable cultivation. No earthwork or cropmark features associated with ridge and furrow or the bombing range markers are visible within the fields, although the vertical angle is not ideal to identify earthworks. The recent cultivation is likely to have impacted on the preservation of earthworks. The fields are defined by hedged or drainage ditch boundaries, with a reverse-S curve characteristic of piecemeal enclosure from open field. One boundary has been removed since 1962. There is no Lidar coverage for the site.


Google Earth coverage, 2002, 2007, 2008 & 2009.

RAF/CPE/UK/2072 1077 17-May-1947.



HSY4384 Surviving strip enclosures around Sykehouse, Doncaster

Post Medieval to Modern Strip Fields

Y Y

HSY4380 Fosterhouses / Fishlake Lanes, Fishlake, Doncaster

Industrial to Modern Strip Fields Y

HSY4356 Land to the north east of Kirkhouse Green, Doncaster

Post Medieval to Modern Piecemeal Enclosure

Y

HSY4419 Warwick Field, Sykehouse, Doncaster Industrial to Modern Surveyed Enclosure (Parliamentary/ Private)

Y



Allocation Reference: 239 Allocation Type: Housing Site Name: Grange Farm, Mere Lane, Edenthorpe






Summary

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



Allocation Reference: 239 Allocation Type: Housing Site Name: Grange Farm, Mere Lane, Edenthorpe



The SMR records one monument and one event within the site: a geophysical survey across the main part of the site that identified Iron Age to Roman fields systems crossing the entirety of the site, a substantial trackway and pit clusters, as well as medieval and later cultivation features. One findspot, one monument and two events are recorded in the buffer zone: a Roman coin found in the southern part of the buffer; traces of a rectilinear field system of probable Iron Age to Roman date recorded as cropmarks to the east of the site; and two archaeological evaluations at the northwest corner of the buffer, which recorded a trapezoidal enclosure and linear ditch boundaries.


The Magnesian Limestone in South and West Yorkshire Aerial Photographic Mapping Project recorded an Iron Age to Roman trackway and associated field boundary ditches within the site, mainly in the southeast area, with the trackway possibly continuing through on a northwest to southeast alignment. Further associated field boundaries were recorded within the buffer to the east and northwest. Ridge and furrow was recorded as earthworks in the southwest part of the site in the 1940s, with further remains recorded in the western buffer having since been lost to development.

The Historic Environment Characterisation records the present character of the site as Agglomerated Fields, created through boundary loss between 1967 and 1982, leading to fragmentary legibility of straight edged enclosures, possibly relating to private enclosure of estate land around Streethorpe manor after 1775. Character zones within the buffer are defined as Ancient Woodland, Agglomerated Fields, Villas/Detached Housing, Planned Estate (Social Housing), School and Business park.

The site is currently two fields in arable cultivation, a large northern field and a smaller field to the southwest, separated by a belt of trees. The northern field contains a farm at the eastern side, and has occasional trees within it that resemble ornamental plantings. The site is bounded to the north by the A630, to the east by Mere Lane, to the west by a railway line and supermarket, and to the south by Shaw Wood.


The site was shown as fields on the 1854 OS map. A footpath crossed the site at that date, with further paths marked on the 1892 map. The Grange had been constructed in the northeast part of the site by that date. This comprised a series of sub-rectangular buildings set around a courtyard and may have been a model farm, labelled ‘Grange Farm’ on the 1962 OS map. Two large outbuildings were shown at the farm at that date, with a further outbuildings shown in 1981. The site’s 19th-century field boundaries had been amalgamated by 1983. The 19th-century path that ran from Grange Farm to Streethorpe Shaw remained extant at the time of the 1993 OS map.

Various features were marked within the buffer zone on the 1854 OS map, including fields, a manor house with orchards, several plantations, Shepherd’s House, Mere Dike, Shaw Wood, Streethorpe and Armthorpe Shaw woodlands to the south of the site, Corporation Shaw, Hag Wood, Moor Shoot Plantation, a gravel pit, Sandall Brick and Tile Yard, a ‘water engine’, Hunger Hill, Hunger Hill Lane and Clay Lane. Sandall Cottages were shown on the 1892 OS map, with kennels shown at Shepherd’s House in 1906. The South Yorkshire Joint Railway was shown within the buffer on the 1930 OS map, along with extensive housing developments. Further housing had been constructed by 1967. The A630 was shown on the 1980 map, with Christ Church Nurseries, schools, playing fields and Dodge Dike also marked at that date. The Shaw Lane Industrial Estate was shown on the 1993 map.

Survival:

The site was fields in 1854 and, with the exception of Grange Farm, has remained undeveloped land since that date. Aerial photography and geophysical survey identified extensive remains of field boundaries and a trackway of possible Iron Age to Roman date, as well as possible pit clusters within the site. Arable cultivation may have truncated sub-surface deposits, but below the plough zone the potential for buried archaeological remains is



considered to be high. Grange Farm was constructed in the late 19th century and may contain surviving original buildings which could be of historic significance.


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

Significance:

Remains associated with Iron Age to Roman dispersed settlement and agricultural activity could be of Local to Regional significance depending on their extent, nature and condition. Any surviving historic buildings at Grange Farm could be considered to be of Local significance.


Twenty-first-century aerial photographs show the site as fields. Potential cropmark features are visible on the 2002 photograph. Lidar data does not show any obvious evidence for archaeological features within the site.


Google Earth: 2002, 2003, 2007, 2008 and 2009. Bing Maps: 2015. Lidar data tiles SE6105 & SE6205 DTM 1m.



01246/01 Cropmarks showing Iron Age or Romano-British field system, Edenthorpe

Traces of rectangular field system. Y

01260/01 Roman coin, Basil Avenue, Armthorpe

Roman coin Antoninianus of Tricus II from garden of 39 Basil Avenue.

Y

05610 Iron Age to Romano-British field systems and pit clusters, Armthorpe

Geophysical survey, along with aerial photographic evidence shows a landscape of field boundaries with a number of possible enclosures. These are Iron Age and Romano-British field systems. Also evident are several possible pit clusters, which could be contemporary.

Y

ESY474 Archaeological Evaluation on Land off Hungerhill Lane (Total Fitness Site)

Geophysical survey results indicated the presence of linear anomalies probably caused by agricultural activity with some representing infilled ditches. Cropmarks originally identified in the desk based assessment are interpreted as forming a brickwork field system and some anomalies correspond with these cropmarks. A possible trapezoidal enclosure was not identified on aerial photograph cropmarks. Trial trenching revealed a number of linear features.

Y

ESY475 Archaeological Evaluation of land off Hungerhill Lane

In 2002 a second programme of geophysical survey was conducted on land off Hungerhill Lane covering over 14 hectares. This revealed several linear anomalies that did not correspond with cropmark evidence or old field boundaries. It is possible that they may be natural features.

Y

ESY1246 Gradiometer survey at Grange Farm, Doncaster

Gradiometer survey on 25 hectares of agricultural land to the northeast of Doncaster. Former field boundaries and ridge and furrow earthworks were identified. Also a number of probable pits and ditches of archaeological origin. Several possible pit clusters were identified.

Y Y





HSY4525 Land between Edenthorpe and Armthorpe, Doncaster


HSY4524 Shaw Wood, Armthorpe, Doncaster Ancient Woodland Y

HSY4763 Hungerhill, Kirk Sandall, Doncaster Agglomerated fields Y

HSY4765 Thorne Road Edenthorpe (south east side), Doncaster


HSY4771 Infill housing between the A630 and Edenthorpe, Doncaster


HSY5015 Shawwood Primary School, Armthorpe, Doncaster

School Y

HSY5017 Mansfield Crescent, Armthorpe, Doncaster Planned Estate (Social Housing) Y

HSY5350 Jefferson Avenue, Doncaster Planned Estate (Social Housing) Y

HSY5434 Shaw lane industrial estate Business Park Y



Allocation Reference: 240 Allocation Type: Housing Site Name: Land East of Doncaster Road, Hatfield



Archaeological significance of site Regional


Suitability of site for allocation Major archaeological constraint

Summary

Within site Within buffer zone Scheduled Monument - - Listed Building - 2 SMR record/event 1 record/2 events 25 records/3 events Cropmark/Lidar evidence Yes Yes Cartographic features of interest Yes Yes Estimated sub-surface disturbance Low n/a



Allocation Reference: 240 Allocation Type: Housing Site Name: Land East of Doncaster Road, Hatfield



The SMR records one monument and two events within the site. The monument relates to the site of the early medieval Battle of Hatfield Chase, around 663 AD, though the location is conjectural and dubious. The two events both lie at the southern end of the site and extend into the buffer zone; geophysical survey at Woodhouse Lane, and archaeological monitoring and trial trenching on the route of a water pipeline. The results of the geophysical survey indicated that there were a number of anomalies probably caused by infilled ditches and roughly coincide with the location of cropmarks indentified on aerial photographs. The results of archaeological trial trenching and monitoring confirmed the presence of Iron Age/Romano-British field ditches and associated droveways, including features not visible on aerial photographs. The ditches are considered to form part of a locally, if not regionally important complex of cropmarks in the area to the east of Doncaster.

Within the buffer zone, the SMR records 25 monuments and three events. The majority of monuments are clustered to the east of the site, and mostly comprise Iron Age/Roman or medieval findspots. To the southeast of the site, an early Bronze Age find is recorded, whilst to the southwest, a Neolithic flint is recorded. Two of the events recorded in the buffer zone are the same as those described above, which also lie within the site boundary. The third event is an excavation at Lings Farm, which recorded a large Iron Age or Roman compound enclosed by a single ditch and approached by a droveway. A medieval corn mill is recorded in the northern part of the buffer, with a surviving earthen mound.

There are no Scheduled Monuments or listed buildings within the site. Two listed buildings are located within the buffer: the remains of the grade II listed Lings windmill to the north of the site, and a grade II listed milepost to the west of the site.

The Magnesian Limestone in South and West Yorkshire Aerial Photographic Mapping Project recorded significant remains of Iron Age/Roman field boundaries within both the site and the buffer zone.

Historic Environment Characterisation records the present character of the site as surveyed enclosure dating from the 1825 Parliamentary Award, though loss of boundaries since 1851 means that this land is now on the cusp of the modern 'agglomerated field' category; however, there remains significant legibility of its 1825 enclosure layout in the surviving boundaries. Within the buffer, to the east of the site, the landscape character is a mixture of modern housing and surveyed enclosure. To the east of the buffer, the land is mostly fields with some of the 1825 surveyed boundaries surviving in a fragmented state. To the south is a modern quarry, with modern housing to the north and west with no legibility of former landscape characteristics.

The site currently comprises a triangular parcel of land bounded by roads on all three sides; Doncaster Road, Lings Lane and Woodhouse Lane. The site is split into a number of fields, separated by hedgerows. A small patch of woodland exists at the centre of the site, with a small building complex to the west.


The site is shown on the 1854 OS map as a number of fields, labelled The Lings. A small area of woodland present slightly to the east of the centre of the site is labelled ‘Gravel Hole or Round Plantation’. A well to the southwest of the site was, labelled ‘Draw Well’. Across the entire site is a note locating the ‘Supposed site of a battle AD 633’. By 1892, this note is no longer present on the map, and nor is the draw well. The patch of woodland is labelled Round Plantation. There was little further change within the site until 1930, when a water tower and associated buildings were constructed at the western end of the site, these had been extended by 1956. At some point between 1992 and 2002, many of the field boundaries were removed. The boundaries which remain can be traced on the 1854 map and likely relate to the 1825 enclosure of the area.

Within the buffer zone, by 1854 Doncaster Road, Lings Lane and Woodhouse Lane were already extant, although Woodhouse Lane was also labelled as Lings Lane, its name having been altered by 1892. There was very little development in the area in 1854, with the exception of some houses on the east side of Lings Lane, and Lings Farm, off Woodhouse Lane. To the southwest of the site a small area of woodland was labelled Lings Plantation.



Two windmills were marked on the map, to the immediate north and east of the site. By 1892 the northern one was shown as an earthwork. The eastern one is now Grade II listed, labelled as disused in 1962. By 1907, a gravel pit had been opened up to the southwest of the site, which had extended considerably by 1930. By this time, there was also housing on Broadway and some buildings had also appeared on Doncaster Road, which had developed further by 1948. Allotment gardens were present just to the northeast of the site in 1930. By 1984, the area between Doncaster Road and Coppice Lane is heavily developed with housing, and the western side of Lings Lane has also become developed.

Survival:

The site has been in arable cultivation since at least the mid-19th century, and this may have caused some truncation to sub-surface deposits, though numerous ditches were located in evaluation and monitoring along the southern edge of the site, indicating that below the level impacted by ploughing, the potential for the survival of buried remains is high. Extensive cropmarks associated with Iron Age to Roman field systems, trackways and enclosures are recorded within the site, and the previous archaeological works indicate that buried remains of these features do survive.


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

Significance:

The Iron Age to Roman cropmarks within the site form part of a regionally important complex of field systems, trackways and dispersed settlement.


Twenty-first-century aerial photographs show the site as arable land with a small patch of woodland in the centre, and a small building complex to the west. Some potential former field boundaries, probably of post-medieval date, are visible on Lidar data within the buffer zone.


Google Earth coverage, 2002, 2003, 2008 & 2009. Lidar data tiles SE6507 & SE6508 DTM 1m.

SE6508/3 DNR 1032/12 28-Jun-1978; SE6508/7 DNR 1295/28 09-Jul-1979 and SE6508/20 NMR 17348/46 28-Jul-1999.



Site? Buffer?

1151581 Lings Windmill II Y

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

II Y



00704/01 Roman Pottery Sherd, Hatfield

Samian base stamped Marcus F. Y

01066/01 Bronze Age flint knife, Hatfield

Early Bronze Age flint knife found in field in 1966. Y

01828/01 Flint flake of Flint flake from gravel pit (see also 1829). Y



possible Neolithic date, Hatfield

01829/01 Romano-British pottery sherd, Hatfield

Romano-British pottery sherd from same location as 1828 (gravel pit).

Y

02000/01 Lings Farm - Iron Age to Romano-British enclosure, trackway and field system

An Iron Age to Roman-British enclosure excavated in 1974 by Doncaster Museum. A hearth and a few Roman potsherds were found. Limited excavations revealed alterations to the enclosure and field systems with sequences of ditch re-cuttings and in-fillings being apparent. The site had been damaged by deep ploughing and a small open area excavation in the south east corner was unable to identify any features beyond the presence of a hearth.

Y

02299/01 Lings Windmill, Post-Medieval Tower Mill, Hatfield

Tower Mill, early 19th century, red brick. 4-storey trunicated cone. Doorway west side with original window openings to 3 floor over.

Y

02725/01 Roman Coin Find, Lings Lane, Hatfield

Roman coin Ae Sestertius worn but probably of Faustina Y

02727/01 Roman Coin, Lings Lane, Hatfield

Roman coin found by metal detector east of Ling's Lane. Y

02728/01 Medieval Silver Coin, Lings Lane, Hatfield

Medieval silver coin AR half groat of Edward III, London mint (1357-69) found by metal detector east of Lings Lane.

Y

02729/01 Medieval Silver Coin Find, Lings Lane, Hatfield

Medieval silver penny of Edward I, II and III. Found in April 1980.

Y

02730/01 Medieval Gold Coin, Lings Lane, Hatfield

Medieval gold coin Quanta Noble of Edward III (1351-61) found by metal detector east of Ling's Lane.

Y

02734/01 Post-Medieval Token Find, Ling's Lane, Hatfield

17th century trade token of Anthony y2d token. Found in 1981 by metal detector east of Ling's Lane.

Y

02735/01 Post-Medieval Token Find, Hatfield

17th century Doncaster AE 1/2d trade token. Found in August 1982.

Y

02739/01 Lead Bead or Weight Find, Ling's Lane, Hatfield

Spherical lead bead or weight found by metal detector east of Ling's Lane.

Y

02740/01 Unclassified Bronze Object, Hatfield

Bronze object of unknown date slightly bevelled on upper surface and slightly twisted near terminals (similar to the end of a key?).

Y

02742/01 Lead Weight Find, Ling's Lane

Lead weight of unknown date found by metal detector east of Ling's Lane. The weight is disc shaped.

Y

02744/01 Undated Lead Object Find, Ling's Lane, Hatfield

Lead object of unknown date found by metal detector east of Ling's Lane.

Y

02745/01 Medieval Lead Spindle Whorl Find, Ling's Lane

Medieval lead spindle whorl, biconical in shape with line and dot decoration on each face. Found by metal detector east of Ling's Lane.

Y

02748/01 Unclassified Flint Flake Tool Finds, Ling's Lane

2 flint flake tools found east of Ling's lane. Y

02751/01 Site of ?Windmill and Mound,

Site of ?Lings Windmill shown on the 1850 OS map. The site is in pasture and the sides are damaged.

Y



Hatfield

02752/01 Roman Bronze Coin Find, Hatfield

Roman bronze coin AE Sestertius of Faustine I Y

02753/01 Medieval Silver Coin Find, Hatfield

Medieval Scottish silver half penny of William I (The Lion) 1165-1214.

Y

02754/01 Undated Bronze Buckles, Hatfield

Bronze buckles of unknown date. Y

04931 Battle of Hatfield Chase, ?near Dunscroft, Hatfield

"A.D. 633 . This year King Edwin was slain by Cadwalla and Penda, on Hatfield moor, on the fourteenth of October", recorded in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. The location of the battle is not known. Given the difficulty in identifying the location of much better documented battlefields, and that the chronicle was written a significant time after the event, the location suggested by the Ordnance Survey must be viewed with extreme caution until further evidence is presented to substantiate it.

Y

ESY98 Excavations at Lings Farm, Dunsville, Doncaster

Trenches at Ling Farm, Dunsville, 1974. See SMR record 02000/01.

Y

ESY255 Geophysical Survey and Excavation at Woodhouse Lane

In November 1998 a geophysical survey was undertaken. The results indicate that there are a number of anomalies probably caused by infilled ditches and roughly coincide with the location of cropmarks indentified on aerial photographs. The results of archaeological monitoring and excavation in March 1999 confirmed the presence of Iron Age/Romano-British field system and associated droveways, which were originally located on aerial photographs and geophysical survey.

Y Y

ESY908 Archaeological Monitoring and Trial Trenching at Doncaster Water Pipeline, South Yorkshire

Trial trenching and archaeological monitoring was undertaken in 2006 along the route of a new water pipeline. Excavations at two sites along the route revealed ditches and trackways corresponding to recorded cropmarks of Iron Age to Romano-British field systems. Excavation of a third site at Kilham Farm also revealed a number of ditches indicative of such field systems. The ditches formed part of a locally, if not regionally important complex of cropmarks in the area to the east of Doncaster. The excavations confirmed the presence of cropmarks features, as well as identifying features not visible on aerial photographs. Despite an almost complete absence of artefactual and environmental evidence from the features, excavations have provided an insight into the use and re-use of Iron Age and Romano-British field system in the region.

Y Y



HSY4487 Lings Field, Hatfield, Doncaster Agglomerated fields Y Y



Y

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

Y

HSY4479 Former Carrs and Commons east of Hatfield, Doncaster

Drained Wetland Y

HSY4628 Dunsville gravel quarry, Doncaster Quarry Y

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



HSY4686 Hatfield High School, Hatfield, Doncaster School Y

HSY4691 Greenspace fragment in Dunscroft/ Hatfield, Doncaster

Public Park Y

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

HSY4728 Lings Lane, Hatfield, Doncaster Vernacular Cottages Y

HSY4729 1 - 11 Lings Lane, Hatfield, Doncaster Villas/ Detached Housing Y

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

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

HSY4735 Hatfield Dunnsville Primary School, Doncaster School Y



Allocation Reference: 241

Allocation Type: Housing

Site Name: Land to the East of Mere Lane, Edenthorpe

Area (Ha): 46.33

NGR (centre): SE 6260 0639

Settlement: Doncaster Urban Area





Summary

Within site Within buffer zone

Scheduled Monument - -

Listed Building - 2

SMR record/event 1 record 7 records/4 events

Cropmark/Lidar evidence Yes Yes

Cartographic features of interest Yes Yes

Estimated sub-surface disturbance Low n/a



Allocation Reference: 241

Allocation Type: Housing

Site Name: Land to the East of Mere Lane, Edenthorpe

Area (Ha): 46.33

NGR (centre): SE 6260 0639

Settlement: Doncaster Urban

Area

Site assessment

Known assets/character:

The SMR records one monument within the southeast part of the site, unclassified cropmarks of probable Iron

Age to Roman date. There are six monuments and one findspot within the buffer zone. Four of the monuments

relate to Iron Age to Roman field systems, enclosures and a drove road recorded as cropmarks and through

excavation. A mound of unknown function (no longer extant), a find spot of Roman pottery sherds, and a post-

medieval Manor House (grade II listed) are also recorded within the buffer zone. Four events are present at the

edges of the buffer zone. Geophysical survey and evaluations sought to investigate enclosures and associated

field systems previously identified from aerial photography. A number of probable pits and ditches were recorded

through geophysical survey in the southwest part of the buffer, with further ditches revealed through excavation

to the northwest, northeast and east, along with sherds of locally made probable 2nd

century pottery.

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

within the site, although two are recorded within the buffer zone. In addition to the grade II listed manor house

noted above is a grade II listed milepost, located to the north of the site.

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

Iron Age to Roman field boundaries within the site, which form a cohesive pattern of brickwork-pattern field

systems, a possible settlement enclosure and a wide trackway that may be a drove road. These are recorded

across the site itself, and also extend into the buffer and beyond, forming part of a wider agricultural landscape.

The Historic Environment Characterisation records the present character of the site as agglomerated fields, with

the loss of boundaries between 1967 and 1982 resulting in fragmentary visibility of the former pattern of straight

edged enclosures, possibly relating to the private enclosure of estate land around Streetthorpe Manor after 1775.

Within the buffer zone, the majority of the area comprises modern housing. Towards the eastern edge of the

buffer zone is a small area of surveyed enclosure, comprising former common land enclosed by Parliamentary

award in 1785, which retains partial legibility of former common edges.

The site currently comprises a number of fields, which appear to be used as arable land. The main A630 runs

along the southern site boundary.


The 1854 OS map shows the site as a number of fields with hedge/tree boundaries. The basic shape of the site is

recognisable, with the northern boundary and most of the eastern and western boundaries distinguishable,

although the southern site boundary was not present at this time. A small collection of buildings was present at

the very western end of the site, with a gasometer shown adjacent by 1892. A pump was located just to the north

of these buildings. A small plantation, named Ash Plantation, was present approximately at the centre of the site

and an Old Gravel Pit was marked in the north-western corner. By 1892 two tracks/footpaths were marked on an

approximate east-west alignment across the site. By 1967, the buildings at the western edge were marked as

Manor Farm. By 1981 the A630 had been built, and the site took the shape which remains today. By this time

also, Manor Farm had reduced in size, with just a single building remaining. By 1992, a small area to the south of

this building was marked as a playground, with a playing field and caravan site to the north.

Within the buffer zone, the majority of the area comprised fields, with little development. To the immediate east

of the site was an area of trees named Long Plantation, and to the west a Manor House (1606) was marked,

immediately outside the site boundary. To the northwest was Streetthorpe Hall, which by 1892 had changed its

name to Edenthorpe Hall. Immediately outside of the northern site boundary were Streetthorpe Cottages, which

like the hall, had changed their name to Edenthorpe by 1892. Hatfield Lane to the east, and Thorne Road to the

north, were both extant in 1854. By 1930, Edenthorpe Hall appears to have been split into two detached

properties, one still called Edenthorpe Hall, the other Edenthorpe House. By 1938, development had occurred to

the west of the site, with the construction of Back Lane and Cedric Road, with associated housing. New housing



was also present along Thorne Road to the north. By 1961 Edenthorpe Hall had become Edenthorpe County

Primary School. Edenthorpe House was still shown, whilst the Manor House had been demolished and houses

built over its location, up to the western edge of the site. Edenthorpe House was no longer shown in 1967. By

1981 the A630 had been built, with improvement also to Hatfield Lane with the addition of a roundabout. By

1992 a new housing development was present to the north of the site, off Thorne Road.

Survival:

Historic maps do not show any development within the site since 1854, with the exception of the Manor Farm

complex at the very western edge of the site. Arable cultivation may have caused some truncation of sub-surface

deposits, but below the plough zone, the potential for the survival of buried archaeological remains is moderate

to high. Extensive remains of an Iron Age to Roman field system, drove way and possible settlement enclosures

are recorded as cropmarks within the site.


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

Significance:

The Iron Age to Roman remains recorded across the site are part of a wider landscape of such features, and could

be of Local to Regional archaeological significance depending on their nature, extent and condition. Remains

associated with the Manor Farm complex at the western end of the site are considered to be of Local

significance; this included a small gasometer which may have provided a supply to the Manor House.

Note: Site 431 covers the western end of Site 241.

Aerial Photographs & Lidar

Summary:

Aerial photographs from 2002 show the site to be unchanged from the 1992 OS map. The site comprises a

number of fields which are in agricultural use, with a small parcel of lane at the western end of the site containing

a football pitch and basketball court, with a playing field to the north.

Lidar data for the site does not show any previously unrecorded earthworks of archaeological origin on the site.

The recorded Iron Age to Roman field boundaries on the site are not identifiable as earthworks within the Lidar

data.


Google Earth images 2002, 2003, 2008, 2009, 2015. Lidar data file SE6206 DTM 1m.

SE6206/16 NMR 719/026 02-Jul-1974; SE6206/4 DNR 872/28A-29 03-Jul-1976.

Statutory Designations

Reference

ID

Name Designation/

Grade

Site? Buffer?

1151557 Manor House II Y

1258524 Milepost 30 metres north of Stonehaven II Y

SMR Record/event

Reference

ID


00674/01 Roman pottery

sherds

Roman sherds. "the find spot falls in a wooded but otherwise

featureless area"

Y

01246/01 Cropmarks showing

Iron Age or

Romano-British

Traces of rectangular field system. Y



field system,

Edenthorpe

01247/02 Iron Age to

Romano-British

period drove road,

Edenthorpe

A possible drove road dating from the Iron Age or Roman

periods was recorded on land at northeast Edenthorpe.

Y

01830/01 Mound of

Unknown Function,

Edlington

Mound of "unknown function", now under modern housing. Y

02694/01 Iron Age or

Romano-British

Unclassified

Cropmark,

Edenthorpe

Iron Age or Romano-British unclassified cropmark. Y


Romano-British

Enclosure,

Edenthorpe

Iron Age or Romano-British sub Rectangular enclosure with

entrance to west and attached field boundary.

Y


Romano-British

Curvilinear

Enclosure,

Edenthorpe

Two enclosures and associated field system off Hatfield Lane,

Edenthorpe, Doncaster.

Y

04940 Edenthorpe Manor

House

The date stone states 1606 although architecturally the house

is late 17th century. Much of the grounds and ancilliary

buildings shown on the 1st edition OS are now under 20th

century housing.

Y

ESY38 Evaluations at

Edenthorpe

Excavated features demonstrated a complex sequence of ditch

cutting episodes, and also produced pottery.

Y

ESY472 Archaeological

Evaluation of land

off Thorne Road

In 1992 trial trenching revealed a number of field ditches but

these could not be dated and did not seem to correlate with

the plotted cropmarks from aerial photographs.

Y

ESY1246 Gradiometer

survey at Grange

Farm, Doncaster

Gradiometer survey on 25 hectares of agricultural land to the

northeast of Doncaster. Former field boundaries and ridge and

furrow earthworks were identified. Also a number of probable

pits and ditches of archaeological origin. Several possible pit

clusters were identified.

Y

ESY1247 Trial Trenching of a

Romano-British

Enclosure,

Edenthorpe

13 trial trenches targeted to investigate two enclosures and

associated field systems previously identified from aerial

photography and geophysical survey. 170 sherds of locally

made probable 2nd century pottery were recovered.

Y

SMR Historic Environment Characterisation

Reference

ID


HSY4525 Land between Edenthorpe and Armthorpe,

Doncaster


HSY4510 Long Sandall Common, Doncaster. Surveyed Enclosure

(Parliamentary/ Private)

Y

HSY4765 Thorne Road Edenthorpe (south east side),

Doncaster


HSY4767 Edenthorpe Hall School, Edenthorpe,

Doncaster

School Y



HSY4770 Edenthorpe earlier housing, Doncaster Planned Estate (Social Housing) Y

HSY4771 Infill housing between the A630 and

Edenthorpe, Doncaster


HSY4781 Brecks Field Housing developments, Kirk

Sandall, Doncaster


HSY5698 Superstore, Edenthorpe, Doncaster Commercial Core-Suburban Y



Allocation Reference: 244 Allocation Type: Housing Site Name: Land off Coulman Rd/Broadbent Gate Rd

Area (Ha): 2.02 NGR (centre): SE 6955 1439 Settlement: Thorne Moorends





Summary

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



Allocation Reference: 244 Allocation Type: Housing Site Name: Land off Coulman Rd/Broadbent Gate Rd



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

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 did not record any features within the site. Post-medieval ridge and furrow was recorded at the east edge of the buffer zone.

The Historic Environment Characterisation records the present character of the site as drained wetland of North Common, depicted as newly laid out allotments on the 1825 enclosure plan for this area. The present boundaries are largely defined by 19th-century drainage layout. There is no legibility of the former common.

Within the buffer zone, the majority of the land comprises drained wetland and modern housing. Additional landscape character types include part of the Thorne Cables enclosed and drained land, also enclosed 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 to the west and industrial development to the south, with no legibility or very fragmentary remains of previous character types.

Historic landfill data records the Brickworks, King Edward Road, Thorne, within the buffer zone, to the west of the site.

The site has been in agricultural use since at least 1825 and remains undeveloped to the present day. The present site boundaries comprise narrow lanes to the north and east, a field boundary of at least 1825 to the south and a later field boundary to the west.


The site covers the majority of what was an enclosed single field from at least 1825 onwards, and appears as such on the 1853 OS map. The site remained much the same until 1962, when the western site boundary was constructed, with the construction of a property labelled ‘Moorville’ immediately to the west of the site. From 1971 onwards, the southern site boundary, which had previously been the 1825 enclosure boundary, is marked as a drain.

Within the buffer zone, a brick works had been established to the west by 1892 and had been extended by 1932. In 1902, a building, ‘Moorville’, was constructed immediately to the west of the site, which had been extended by 1970, with the addition of an eastern boundary, which denotes the western boundary the site. By 1971 other buildings were added to this plot of land which housed Moorville, one building labelled ‘Rosedene’ and one labelled ‘Ralglen’. By 1932, houses on Wilkinson Avenue, to the north of the site, had been constructed. By 1948, a number of houses had been constructed to the west of the site, which had been substantially added to by 1971.

Survival:

The site has been drained and cultivated since at least the mid-19th century, which may have impacted on the preservation of below-ground deposits through truncation and desiccation. The potential for the survival of buried archaeology below the zone impacted by ploughing is considered to be moderate.



Significance:

Unknown.



Aerial Photographs & Lidar Summary: Twenty-first-century aerial photographs show the site as arable land. There is no Lidar coverage for the site.

Photograph references: Google Earth coverage, 2002, 2008 & 2009.



HSY4395 Thorne Cables (Agglomerated section), Thorne, Doncaster

Drained Wetland Y Y

HSY4416 North Common, Thorne, Doncaster Drained Wetland Y Y

HSY4654 'Tree Estate (Northern Section), Thorne, Doncaster


HSY4667 1970s estates to the south of Moorends village, Doncaster


HSY4669 Coulman Road Industrial Estate, Thorne Common, Doncaster

Other Industry Y

HSY4670 Frontier Works, Thorne, Doncaster Other Industry Y

HSY4671 Shepherds Rest Caravan Site, Thorne, Doncaster

Romany or other Traveller Community site

Y

HSY5647 Coulman Street. Thorne, Doncaster Private Housing Estate Y

HSY5648 Rugby and Cricket Grounds, Coulman Road, Thorne, Doncaster

Sports Ground Y



Allocation Reference: 245 Allocation Type: Housing Site Name: Land at Micklethwaite's Farm, Moorends






Summary

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



Allocation Reference: 245 Allocation Type: Housing Site Name: Land at Micklethwaite's Farm, Moorends



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

There is one grade II listed building within the buffer zone. This is Micklethwaite Farmhouse, and its proximity to the site suggests that the setting of the listed building may be impacted by any development.

The Magnesian Limestone Aerial Photographic Mapping Project records levelled and earthwork ridge and furrow within the buffer zone, in fields to the north and west of the site.

The Historic Environment Characterisation records the landscape character within the site as Drained Wetland, where loss of field boundaries in the late 20th century has resulted in only fragmentary visibility of the 19th-century fields enclosed from Thorne Moor. Within the buffer, the landscape character types include Thorne Colliery, sunk in 1909 and operating until 1956, after which it was maintained and altered in anticipation of potential future working. The mine is now formally abandoned. The northern and western sides of the buffer are characterised as the Dikes Marsh and Moorends warped lands, drained wetlands enclosed in 1825, with some enclosure possibly in the early 17th century. The pattern of drainage and subdivision changed significantly between 1851 and 1891 in association with the creation of a new warping system, with only fragmentary visibility of the earlier enclosure pattern. The remainder of the buffer comprises 20th-century residential housing and playing fields associated with the planned mining settlement of Thorne Moorends.

The site is currently two fields under arable cultivation, bounded to the northwest by a railway line.


The 1853 OS map showed the site divided into many narrow rectangular strip fields running in a roughly west to east alignment. The area was part of an extensive area of similar strip fields enclosed from drained wetlands, some possibly in association with Vermuyden's drainage works in the early 17th century, with the process completed in the 1825 Enclosure Award. By 1892, the North Eastern Railway Hull and Doncaster line had been constructed along the northwest boundary of the site, and the fields had been aggregated into three enclosures, with boundaries formed by drainage ditches. A diagonal linear feature ran through part of the northern field, probably a drainage ditch, shown crossing the entire field in 1906. No significant changes to the layout were shown throughout the rest of the 20th-century mapping.

Within the buffer, the 1853 OS map showed similar strip fields to the north, south and east of the site, with small square to rectangular enclosures to the west of Moorends Road. Micklethwaite Farm was shown but not labelled in 1853, one of the few buildings at Moor Ends at that date, and was shown in more detail on the 1892 map. At the latter date, some fields to the north and south of the site retained the narrow strip-like appearance, with others fields to the north and east having been aggregated into larger enclosures. Between 1906 and 1948, Thorne Colliery was established in the eastern part of the buffer, with spoil heaps located in the field to the immediate east of the site and a railway branch connecting the colliery to the main line to the north. A brick works was associated with the colliery, and the planned settlement of Moorends had been constructed to the south of the site, with streets laid out in geometric patterns. This pattern remained roughly unchanged by 1987.

Survival:

The site has been drained and cultivated since at least the 1820s, which may have impacted on the preservation of sub-surface deposits through truncation and desiccation. The potential for the survival of unrecorded buried archaeological remains at depths below the zone affected by cultivation activity is considered to be moderate.


Further archaeological investigation may be required if the site is brought forward for development. This should include an assessment of the impact of development on the setting of the grade II listed Micklethwaite Farm, which is adjacent to the site.



Significance:

Unknown.


Aerial photography from 2002 and 2007 shows the site as two fields under cultivation. The drainage ditch shown on historic mapping is no longer extant, but the 2008 and 2009 aerial mapping shows a linear soil and crop mark crossing the field on the route of the drain, suggesting it has been infilled. The soil mark continues across the field to the south and up to Micklethwaite Farm. There is no Lidar coverage for the site.





Site? Buffer?

1193126 Micklethwaite Farmhouse II Y




Drained Wetland Y Y

HSY4396 Thorne Colliery, Thorne, Doncaster Deep Shaft Coal Mine Y

HSY4417 Dikes Marsh and Moorends warped lands, Thorne, Doncaster

Drained Wetland Y

HSY4599 Recreation grounds, Thorne Moorends, Doncaster


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

HSY4658 Moss Terrace, Thorne Moorends, Doncaster Terraced Housing Y



Allocation Reference: 246 Allocation Type: Housing Site Name: Scawthorpe Reservoir, Green Lane






Summary

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



Allocation Reference: 246 Allocation Type: Housing Site Name: Scawthorpe Reservoir, Green Lane



The SMR does not record any monuments or events within the site. Two monuments and two events are recorded within the buffer. Two sub-rectangular enclosures and a possible trackway have been recorded as cropmarks to the north of the site, and evaluation and excavation at the York Road park and ride to the northeast revealed Roman settlement enclosures and an earlier trackway which may have been a pre-cursor of a nearby Roman road.


The Magnesian Limestone in South and West Yorkshire Aerial Photographic Mapping Project recorded a sub-rectangular enclosure within the buffer to the north of the site, with field boundaries and trackways to the north, northeast and southwest. No features were recorded within the site.

Historic Environment Characterisation records the present character of the site and the eastern part of the buffer as semi-detached housing dating from the mid-20th century. Further character zones within the buffer comprise agglomerated fields to the west, north and northeast, and a private housing estate to the south.

Two areas of historic landfill are recorded in the eastern part of the buffer: a small area called Mayfields, for which no details are recorded, and the former Long Edge Quarry, used for industrial and commercial waste disposal.

The site currently contains a covered reservoir and the site of a demolished building to the west.


The 1854 map shows the site as part of a field, bounded to the north by Green Lane and to the east by York Road (the Great North Road). The field is one of a group with regular boundaries characteristic of Parliamentary Enclosure, and the area is called Scawthorpe Field. There is a lack of mapping from 1966 to 1982, with the reservoir first shown within the site at the latter date, in a small enclosure behind housing fronting onto Green Lane and York Road. An L-shaped building was shown along the western edge of the site and the reservoir was shown as square, divided into four sections.

Within the buffer, the 1854 map shows Scawthorpe Farm in the southern area and a small area of quarrying was shown within the field containing the site, at the junction of Green Lane and York Road. Another quarry and a limekiln were shown to the east of York Road. Other than the roads, including Long Edge Lane heading east from York Road, the remainder of the buffer was fields. The 1892 map showed ornamental gardens to the east of Scawthorpe Farm, and a lodge at the entrance of a newly-created curving driveway. A further house and gardens were shown to the north of the farm, and the quarry to the north of the site was disused. By 1930 a few houses were shown to the east of York Road, with a housing estate further to the east under construction in 1948. By 1956, a row of houses had been built along Green Lane, across the northern edge of the site, and along York Road to the immediate east of the site. Scawthorpe Farm had been renamed Scawthorpe Hall by 1961.

Survival:

The construction of the reservoir is likely to have involved substantial sub-surface disturbance. The potential for the survival of significant buried archaeology is considered to be negligible.


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

Significance:

Negligible.




The 2002-2015 photographs show the site as a reservoir, square in shape and covered by four square covers. The area to the west of the reservoir is shown as hard surfacing, and the building shown in 1982 had been demolished. There is a tall water tower adjacent to the site access from Green Lane, but this appears to stand just outside the site. Lidar data shows the reservoir as a square hollow, the building platform, and earthen bunds along the north and northeast sides of the site.


Google Earth 2002, 2003, 2008, 2009 & 2015. Lidar data file SE5406 DTM 1m.

MAL/60427 81665 21-Jun-1960; SE5406/1 DNR 340/25 31-Jul-1971; SE5406/16 NMR 4978/11 03-Jul-1990; SE5405/1 DNR 2432/19 02-Aug-1991; SE5306/27 NMR 17572/28 05-Jul-2001.



00063/01 Two Iron Age or Romano-British Rectangular Enclosures, Adwick Le Street

Two sub-rectangular enclosures. Possible associated track. Y

04837 Romano-British Settlement enclosure and trackway, Scawthorpe

Two settlement enclosures and a trackway running parallel to the nearby Roman road.

Y

ESY151 Evaluation: York Road Park and Ride, Scawthorpe, Doncaster

Geophysical survey revealed linear anomalies from infilled ditches and pits as well as possible areas of burning. The main feature is a double-ditched trackway with an appended enclosure. Evaluation revealed evidence for Romano-British and Prehistoric Settlement. A trackway, pre-dating the Romano-British activity ran north-south parallel to the Roman road, which may have replaced it. Two settlement enclosures were excavated, and a number of artefacts of Iron age and Romano-British date recovered.

Y

ESY1349 Excavations at York Road, Doncaster

Excavation of a trackway identified during earlier evaluation exercises. The ditches of the trackway had been truncated by subsequent ploughing. Finds recovered were almost exclusively residual in nature. Palaeoenvironmental remains were also recovered from the ditch fills.

Y



HSY4933 Scawthorpe Avenue, Doncaster Semi-Detached Housing Y Y

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


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

HSY5143 Scawthorpe Cottages, Doncaster Private Housing Estate Y



Allocation Reference:247 Allocation Type: Housing Site Name: Former Rossington Colliery, New Rossington

Area (Ha): 12.065 NGR (centre): SK 6017 9803 Settlement: Rossington





Summary

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



Allocation Reference: 247 Allocation Type: Housing Site Name: Former Rossington Colliery, New Rossington

Area (Ha): 12.065 NGR (centre): SK 6017 9803 Settlement: Rossington


The SMR does not record any monuments or events within the site or buffer zone, though Rossington Colliery is recorded as a point just to the north of the buffer, at the location of former pit-head structures..


The Magnesian Limestone in South and West Yorkshire Aerial Photographic Mapping Project recorded the site of Rossington Main Colliery as covering the majority of the site and buffer zone in 1989.

Historic Environment Characterisation records the present character of the site and much of the buffer as Rossington Colliery spoil heap, part of three large spoil heaps deposited on land that formed part of an area of drained wetlands, called Holmes Carr. There is no legibility of the former landscape character. The former pit-head buildings were located to the immediate north, possibly extending slightly into the northwest edge of the site. Rossington Main Colliery was sunk in 1912, with production starting in 1916 and ceasing in 2006. Further character zones within the buffer include Holmes Carr Great Wood to the east, and agglomerated fields, formerly characterised as drained wetland, to the west.

Historic Landfill data records two areas of tipping, one crossing the site and one within the eastern part of the buffer. Both were associated with the colliery.

The most recent imagery (2018) shows the majority of the site as part of a wider area of levelled spoil heap, apparently undergoing some reclamation. The western tip of the site is shown as scrubby grassland.


The 1854 OS map shows the site as part of an area of drained wetland, crossed by drainage ditches and in an area named Holmes Carr, part of the wider area of Potteric Carr. Rossington Drain crossed the site on a northeast to southwest alignment, and the western edge was bounded by the canalised River Torne. There were no changes by 1905, but by 1930, spoil tipping from Rossington Colliery had started to encroach onto the site, with spoil shown in a linear tip to the west of Rossington Drain, and a further area in the northern part of the site. The east and west sides of the site remained fields and rough pasture at that date. The spoil tip extended westwards and by 1962 covered the area between railway sidings running alongside the Rossington Drain almost up to the River Torne, which had been embanked by that date. The eastern side of the site was shown as rough pasture, though spoil may have previously been tipped on it as raised ground was shown in this area. Only partial maps are available from 1962 to 1992, by which time the majority of the western half of the site was covered by the spoil heap, with the western tip perhaps rough grassland. Slurry ponds were shown either partially within the northern and eastern parts of the site at that date, with the remaining area shown as vacant land.

Within the buffer, the 1854 map showed regular enclosures to the south, north and west, with the River Torne running in a canalised route to the immediate west of the site. Holmes Carr Great Wood was shown to the east of the site. The 1930 map was the first to show Rossington Main Colliery, which was not depicted on the 1922 OS map despite starting operations in 1916. The 1930 map showed the colliery buildings to the north of the site, including shafts, tanks and an engine house and cooling tower, with extensive railway sidings to the east. Miners' housing at New Rossington was shown just outside the eastern edge of the buffer.

Survival:

The western half of the site has been covered by a large spoil heap since the mid-20th century, with the eastern half having been at least partially excavated for slurry ponds, now infilled. The potential for the survival of buried archaeological remains within the eastern part of the site is considered to be negligible. Whilst unrecorded buried archaeology may survive below the spoil heap at the western side, they may have been compressed by the weight of the spoil and contaminated, and could have been disturbed if topsoil was stripped prior to tipping. The preservation conditions are likely to be poor.




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

Significance:

Negligible.

Aerial Photographs& Lidar Summary:

The 2002 aerial photograph shows the majority of the site as a spoil heap, with a large slurry pond extending into the eastern end of the site. The western edge of the site was grassed, probably where vegetation was allowed to regenerate to stabilise the spoil heap. The vegetation had extended eastwards by 2003, when a new slurry pond was shown. By 2007 both ponds had been infilled with spoil. The colliery buildings to the north were gradually demolished between 2003 and 2008. The 2018 image indicates that by that date the spoil heap was in the process of being removed or regraded. There is no Lidar coverage for this site.


Google Earth coverage 2002, 2003, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2012, 2015 & 2018.

Magnesian Limestone mapping project: OS/89258 0037 11-Jun-1989.



HSY4224 Rossington Colliery Spoil Heap, Rossington, Doncaster

Spoil Heap Y Y

HSY4744 Rossington Main Colliery, New Rossington, Doncaster

Deep Shaft Coal Mine Y Y

HSY4219 Wadworth and Stancil Carr, Doncaster Agglomerated fields Y

HSY4222 Loversall and Potteric Carr, Loversall, Doncaster


HSY4444 Holmes Carr Great Wood, Rossington, Doncaster

Ancient Woodland Y



Allocation Reference: 248 Allocation Type: Housing Site Name: Land at Former Thorne Colliery (Site 1)






Summary

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



Allocation Reference: 248 Allocation Type: Housing Site Name: Land at Former Thorne Colliery (Site 1)



The SMR does not record any monuments or events within the site. One monument is recorded within the buffer zone. This is the remains of Thorne Colliery, with the main pit head infrastructure located at the eastern side of the buffer.

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

The Magnesian Limestone Aerial Photographic Mapping Project records levelled and earthwork ridge and furrow within the buffer zone, in fields to the northwest of the site.

The Historic Environment Characterisation record the landscape character of the site as being part of Thorne Colliery, sunk in 1909 and operating until 1956, after which it was maintained and altered in anticipation of potential future working. The mine is now formally abandoned. The colliery site continues into the buffer, where other character zones include drained wetland where the loss of field boundaries in the late 20th century has resulted in only fragmentary visibility of the 19th-century fields enclosed from Thorne Moor. The remainder of the buffer comprises 20th-century residential housing and playing fields associated with the planned mining settlement of Thorne Moorends.

The site has been cleared of former colliery buildings and infrastructure, and is currently scrubland.


The 1853 OS map showed the site divided into narrow rectangular strip fields running in a roughly west to east alignment. This was part of an extensive area of strip fields enclosed from wetlands, some possibly in association with early 17th-century drainage works, with the process completed in the 1825 enclosure. By 1892, the fields had been aggregated into larger enclosures defined by a gridwork pattern of drainage ditches. Between 1906 and 1950 a brick works associated with Thorne Colliery was constructed in the eastern part of the site, and much of the remainder was shown as large hollows probably associated with extractive activity. A railway line and sidings running along the eastern boundary of the site may have intruded into the site. The brick works had been demolished by 1962, with most of the hollows filled in apart from ponds at the northern and southern ends of the site. Railway branch lines running across the site had been removed by 1984 and the ponds infilled, with the only features shown within the site being allotment gardens in the southwest corner and a linear bank close to the southern edge.

Within the buffer, the 1853 OS map showed similar strip fields to north, south and east of the site. By 1892 some fields to the north and south of the site retained the narrow strip-like appearance, with others aggregated into larger enclosures. Between 1906 and 1948, the pit head buildings of Thorne Colliery had been built to the immediate southeast of the site, with a railway branch connecting the colliery to the main line to the north. The planned settlement of Moorends had been constructed to the south of the site, with streets laid out in curving geometric patterns. This pattern remained roughly unchanged by 1987, though the arrangement of pit-head buildings changed over time.

Survival:

Possible extractive pits covered much of the site in the 1950s, and are likely to have impacted on any sub-surface deposits. The site appears to have been re-graded following the removal of infrastructure, and some subsurface remains of the brickworks may survive at the eastern side of the site.


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

Significance:

Any remains associated with the brick works would be considered of low Local archaeological significance.




The 2002-2009 aerial coverage shows the site as regenerated scrubland, crossed by informal trackways. Exposed ground in the northern part of the site appears to be composed of colliery spoil, possibly used to infill the extractive hollows shown in the 1950s. One north-south aligned drainage ditch is shown in the southern field, with an area at the western edge of this field shown as grassland with two small enclosures containing sheds.

There is no Lidar coverage for this site.





04412/01 Thorne Colliery Coal mine. Sunk from 1910 - had endemic water problems, reinforced concrete shaft, 1910 brick power house and stores. Opened 1927, closed 1956 due to flooding.

Y




Drained Wetland Y

HSY4396 Thorne Colliery, Thorne, Doncaster Deep Shaft Coal Mine Y Y

HSY4599 Recreation grounds, Thorne Moorends, Doncaster


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