Archaeological Field Evaluation of Land off Campo Lane and Vicar Lane, Sheffield, South Yorkshire

ARCUS was commissioned by Property Services Division, Sheffield City Council to undertake an archaeological field evaluation on land off Campo Lane and Vicar Lane, Sheffield. The site had formerly been part of the Vicarage Croft which had been rented and sold piecemeal prior to the nineteenth-century. The most interesting structure on the site had been the Girls Charity School, erected in 1786, part of which still remain as offices forming 15 St James Row. The fieldwork consisted of five machine-assisted trenches. Structural remains were identified within all the evaluation trenches and those within the southern and western areas of the site, Trenches 1, 2, and 3, could be seen to represent structures seen on various cartographic sources. The structures identified in the northeast corner of the site, Trenches 4 and 5, were more ambiguous. Artefactual material recovered from the site came almost exclusively from demolition and levelling deposit and was therefore of limited value, consisting mainly of pottery sherds of general late nineteenth- and twentieth-century wares.