Monument record MDO2426 - Greenhill House, Sherborne; medieval ditch

AC Archaeology conducted an archaeological evaluation during July 1998 in advance of a proposed extension to Greenhill House, Sherborne School. The work comprised the machine excavation of three trenches, only one of which contained subsoil archaeological features. A trench by the Greenhill Street frontage revealed complete truncation of archaeological features, possibly due to localised quarrying. A small trench in the garden area west of Greenhill House (Trench 3) revealed a single NNW-SSE aligned ditch [302] measuring 0.86m wide, 0.42m deep with convex sides, concave base and containing several 14th century sherds of pottery in its fill. The results of the evaluation suggest that medieval remains do survive on the site, but that preservation is variable. <1>

<1> Cotton, J, and Mcmahon, P, 1998, An archaeological evaluation of the proposed extension to Greenhill House, Sherborne School, Sherborne, Dorset (Unpublished document). SDO10395.

<2> Cotton, J, 1998, Sherborne, Greenhill House; Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society (Article in serial). SDO10396.

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