Land off Louth Road, Wragby, East Lindsey, Lincolnshire LN8

In 2021 PCAS Archaeology was commissioned by Somersby Homes to undertake a scheme of archaeological strip, map, and record, fulfilling the archaeological conditions of a planning application decision of 2016. This followed amendments to the original 2015 planning application, during which time PCAS had been commissioned by Capita on behalf of Mr M. Phillipson to conduct an archaeological evaluation survey. The development site is a large field located to the east of Louth Road on the northeastern extent of the town of Wragby in the district of East Lindsey, Lincolnshire. Linear anomalies within this field were first discovered in a geophysical survey conducted by Pre-Construct Geophysics Ltd in 2014, and subsequently investigated during trial trenching in 2015. The excavation area consisted of one large plot, extending across most of the central and southwestern part of the site. Archaeological remains were encountered across much of the site. The features primarily consisted of ditches, though gullies, pits, and post-holes were also encountered. A single ring-ditch with internal post-holes was also examined. With four exceptions, all dated features on site were Later or Late Iron Age, predominantly the latter. Only one gully may have been Early Roman and there was no further evidence for activity on this site until the medieval period, and medieval activity was restricted to ridge and furrow. The ditches were probably enclosure ditches, and the finds assemblage indicates that the site was on the periphery of a Late Iron Age settlement.