Post Excavation Assessment and Updated Project Design: Havant Road, Warblington

strip, map and sample Archaeological excavations were carried out at Havant Road, Warblington, Hampshire. The work was carried out by L�-�P�:�Archaeology who have since merged with Museum of London Archaeology (MOLA). This report has been prepared by John Quarrell and Benjamin Sleep of MOLA on behalf of Barratt David Wilson Homes Southampton. A trenching evaluation found predominantly Late Bronze Age/Early Iron Age remains, with some Middle Bronze Age and Roman period features. The subsequent strip map and record exercise provided evidence that the site was occupied during the Late Bronze Age to Early Iron Age period, with two distinct areas of more intense activity, together with the remains of a large boundary type ditch. Roman period activity was found in the form of a roadside ditch, and another small ditch. Evidence of Medieval activity was limited to residual finds of pottery and an old field boundary and square pit from the Post Medieval speak to the use of the site as agricultural land throughout these periods. The original research aims of the project are reassessed in relation to the excavation results. The significance of the excavation findings is discussed, and a summary of the research and publication aims and plans for archive deposition is provided in the updated project design. The fieldwork is now complete, and it has been agreed with the Local Planning Authority that no further work on the site is required. It is proposed that the results of the excavation, together with further analysis, should be published as an article in the Proceedings of the Hampshire Field Club and Archaeological Society.