Burythorpe

English Heritage summaries. 2005/2006

MAP Archaeological Consultancy Ltd undertook small-scale emergency excavations on agricultural land adjacent to All Saints Church, Burythorpe, North Yorkshire, in advance of an extension to the church graveyard and tree-planting with funding from English Heritage. The fieldwork revealed features demonstrating occupation from the late Iron Age, or early Roman period to the fourth century AD. The later Roman occupation incorporated structures with stone slab floors and, in a subsequent phase with stone-built walls. It is suggested that in the latest phase the site might represent a possible villa. The finds assemblage incorporates later Neolithic and Bronze Age lithics, late Iron Age and Roman ceramics, as well as Roman-period slag, tile and a possible tesserae. The current project phase covered the editing of the report for publication in Yorkshire Archaeological Journal 78 (2006).

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