Evaluation at Land south of Village Street, Harvington, Worcestershire Security Copy

Excavation of 16 archaeological evaluation trenches Wessex Archaeology was commissioned by Orion Heritage Ltd to undertake the archaeological evaluation of a 2.64-hectare parcel of land situated south of Village Street in Harvington, Worcestershire. Prior geophysical survey of the Site (and an area to its south) detected no anomalies of archaeological interest (Wessex Archaeology 2015). A total of 16 trenches were dug of which four were found to contain archaeological features. The features consisted of two furrows and two small pits or postholes. They were in a poor state of preservation and no finds or environmental material were recovered. The features were excavated and recorded, and the material from the trenches was reinstated. This lack of remains would seem consistent with an absence of wider evidence concerning any specific activities centred around the Site itself, other than agricultural activity evidenced in historic mapping and the geophysical survey, which is reflected in the physical traces of ridge and furrow cultivation recorded during the evaluation.