In accordance with best practice guidance, and as determined by policy requirements, this assessment identifies the baseline heritage interest of the assets within a 500m study area. The historical narrative informing the baseline has been derived from a review of various resources, including: � a search of a 1km study area utilising the Historic England National Heritage List for England (NHLE) dataset for scheduled monuments, listed buildings, and registered parks and gardens within the study area; � a search of a 500m study area utilising the South Yorkshire Historic Environment Record (SYHER); � an examination of local, regional and national planning policies in relation to the historic environment; � an inspection of the cartographic evidence for the land use history of the site; and � an assessment of relevant published and unpublished historical sources available online. While evidence exists for human activity in the study area from the medieval period onwards, extensive open cast mining was undertaken in the immediate vicinity of and within the location of the route of the proposed rising main. Extensive excavations within this area have removed archaeological remains, and the likelihood of archaeological remains surviving in situ in the section for the rising main area from all periods is considered to be negligible. Conversely, within the area of the proposed kiosk, historic mapping shows little to no development, suggesting that any in situ archaeological remains could survive in reasonably good condition. However, the underlying geology of mudstone, siltsone and sandstone, within this site suggests that the archaeological significance of such remains would be low, as the majority of known archaeological remains have been recorded in areas with limestone bedrock.
Martin et al. (Mon,) studied this question.