EDO4927 - 14 Wick Lane, Christchurch; evaluation (Trench 1)

Poole Museums Service Archaeological Unit conducted an archaeological evaluation during January 1991, for Priory View Properties Limited, in advance of development at 14 Wick Lane, Christchurch. The site comprised a roughly rectangular area measuring 26m 28m within the confines of the Saxon burh and medieval town of Christchurch. The evaluation comprised the machine excavation of three trenches and a further 2m x 2m hand dug trench. They were positioned to duplicate part of the proposed groundwork. A number of mainly post-medieval pits, ditch and post-holes were identified as well as a couple of pits containing exclusively medieval pottery. The following watching brief confirmed the disturbed nature of the Wick Lane frontage. Trench 1 measured approximately 18.5m x 1m and was located at the west side of the site, parallel to Silver Street, aligned NW-SE. It was machined to a depth of c. 0.7m and then hadn cleared to a depth of 0.88m. Two ill defined N-S aligned featues [23] and [24] at the north end of the trench contained medieval pottery. Three undated possible post-holes were recorded in the centre of the trench and two small areas of darker sand at the southern end of the trench contained medieval pottery. Hants County Museum Service accession number 1990-30.