P5461 Conisbrough Cemetery Extension, Sheffield Road, Conisbrough, South Yorkshire

Title: P5461 Conisbrough Cemetery Extension, Sheffield Road, Conisbrough, South Yorkshire
Description: A 6 trench machine-excavated evaluation in the field immediately south-west of Conisbrough Cemetery identified natural glacial deposits and in one trench (#3) a double-ditch with a clay embankment, provisionally interpreted as the plough-truncated remains of the medieval deer park boundary. Also present down-slope of the boundary was a smaller ditch associated with two stone packed post-holes of unknown date. Up-slope from the boundary, a stone packed foundation of unknown date was also identified.
Type: Evaluation
Date: 17 January 2011 – 24 January 2011
Creator: York Archaeological Trust
Contributor: Ian Milsted (Fieldwork); Bryan Antoni (Fieldwork); Jim Williams (Fieldwork)
Spatial Coverage: Conisbrough Cemetery Extension, Sheffield Road, Conisbrough, South Yorkshire; SK5056297794
Monument Type: Monument Type - Ditch; Monument Type - Bank; Monument Type - Post-hole; Monument Type - Wall Foundation; Monument Type - Drain
Period: Medieval; Post-medieval

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