Excavation of Sections along Walls 23 and 63 at Roystone Grange, Derbyshire.

In March 1998 ARCUS was commissioned to carry out the excavation of two 4 metre sections of dry-stone walling at Roystone Grange in Derbyshire. The investigation was required by the Peak District National Park Authority (PDNPA) following a request by the tenant farmer to rebuild the walls. All the walls on PDNPA land at Roystone have a covenant placed on them which makes provision for archaeological excavations to take place prior to rebuilding. Excavation was undertaken by ARCUS staff between the 12th and the 18th of March 1998. Four metre sections of Wall 23 and 63 at Roystone Grange were excavated in March 1998. Although this work (and other recent excavations at Roystone) have indicated that the wall typologies defined by Wildegoose and Hodges (1991) are not clear cut, this work concurred that Wall 23 was post-medieval and Wall 63 was Roman in origin. Two pieces of Roman pottery and four worked flints were found.