Stratton Park Moated Enclosure, Stratton, Biggleswade, Bedfordshire: A Landscape Survey and Investigation
Author(s): David McOmish
This project completes a body of work that commenced in 1993 with the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England (RCHME) survey of the surviving earthworks immediately to the east of the Stratton moated enclosure (Kenny 1993). This initial investigation, undertaken at the request of Bedfordshire County Council, focused on an area of diffuse and plough-eroded enclosures and paddocks on the south-eastern fringes of Biggleswade in the area of Stratton Park. The results of the survey were largely inconclusive beyond a conviction that the remains represented, in all likelihood, the remnants of medieval and later field enclosures and paddocks as well as poorly defined elements of deserted dispersed settlement. These were important surviving components of a formerly more extensive spread of medieval and post-medieval field remains and cropmarks examined in advance of road and housing developments on the eastern periphery of Biggleswade. The most significant extant element in this earthwork complex, the Stratton Park moated enclosure, however, was excluded from detailed assessment due to the prohibitive nature of the vegetation cover. Scrub clearance on the site has taken place and this current report presents the results of the Level 3 (English Heritage 2007) investigation that was subsequently carried out on the moated enclosure by the English Heritage Archaeological Survey and Investigation, Cambridge team and Albion Archaeology. The project has been logged by English Heritage as RaSMIS number 5732.
- Report Number:
- 39/2009
- Series:
- Research Department Reports
- Pages:
- 35
- Keywords:
- Survey
