Watching Brief at Cross Farm (Phase 2), Wedmore, Somerset

Standard Watching Brief (monitoring) methodology as outlined in relevant CIfA Standard and Guidance. End date was actually 10th July 2024. OASIS would not allow me easily to change the year and so I gave up. Avon Archaeology Limited undertook a watching brief during groundworks associated with the construction of nine new dwellings at Cross Farm, Wedmore, Somerset. The site had previously been occupied by yards and barns, connected to Cross Farm. The remains of one of the former farm barns were recorded within the footings of new building plot 7. A brick surface connected with the barn was recorded and found to be of bricks made in the Wedmore Brickworks, located a short distance to the north-east of the site. The brickworks were in operation from the 1830's closing in circa 1906. The bricks of the barn floor surface were stamped with the name "Morgan/Wedmore" indicating production from 1902, when the brickworks were owned by a Mr Frederick Morgan, indicating the floor surface was laid around this time. The main structure did not appear as a roofed structure on local maps until the late 19th century. No archaeological features or deposits predating the 19th century were encountered during the monitoring.