Scott Lane, Morley, Leeds, West Yorkshire: Archaeological Evaluation Report

In 2018, AOC Archaeology Group was commissioned to undertake an archaeological evaluation by trial trenching at the site of a proposed residential development on land at Scott Lane, Morley, Leeds, West Yorkshire. The site specific aims of the evaluation were to clarify the results of the geophysical survey undertaken by West Yorkshire Archaeology Services in December 2016, and to determine the level of risk that the archaeological resource would present (if found) to the construction programme and aid the determination of any additional mitigation work specification and programme, if required. Four evaluation trenches (Trenches 29-32) were excavated in a small triangular plot of land immediately to the west of the site compound. Trenches 30-32 were positioned to coincide with linear anomalies of potential archaeological significance. whilst Trench 29 tested an area that lay beyond the extent of the site compound immediately to the east. Fairly shallow linear features were found in the trenches but none produced any finds, so their dates are uncertain. One of the features, a shallow gully, may be associated with the course of a footpath depicted on historical Ordnance Survey maps. Another shallow gully may relate to post-medieval agricultural activity. Palaeoenvironmental samples that were taken from the features proved unrewarding.