Archaeological Evaluation - Abbey Funeral Services, Nos 2-4, New Street, Leominster, Herefordshire
Archaeological evaluation was undertaken at 2–4 New Street ahead of residential development. The site lies within Leominster’s historic urban core, where evidence for medieval and post-medieval occupation was considered possible.
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Border Archaeology was instructed by Mr G Seaborne to undertake an archaeological field evaluation of the site at Abbey Funeral Services, Nos 2-4 New Street, Leominster, Herefordshire, (NGR SO 49513 59204) prior to the proposed erection of eight dwellings (Ref. DCNC2007/3807/F). Julian Cotton, Archaeological Advisor, Herefordshire Archaeology, advised on 11th January 2008 that an archaeological evaluation should be carried out to provide further information regarding the archaeological potential of the site, which lies within the historic urban core of Leominster, as defined by the Central Marches Historic Towns Survey (Buteux 1996). Woolhope Club summary, Archaeology, 2009, pp. 147: Three trenches found post-medieval occupation, demolition rubble and extensive imported or redeposited ground over late occupation or garden soils. Earlier 17th- to 18th-century features included a stone-lined pit and a large deposit of cattle horn cores, probably linked to horn working or tanning.
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Archaeological Evaluation - Abbey Funeral Services, Nos 2-4, New Street, Leominster, Herefordshire
Fieldwork report · 2015
Archaeological evaluation was undertaken at 2–4 New Street ahead of residential development. The site lies within Leominster’s historic urban core, where evidence for medieval and post-medieval occupation was considered possible.
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