Coleshill Uncovered Interim Report March 2011
Edited by: JB Winterburn & Anna Gow
Contributions by:
Tom Sykes
Anna Gow
Richard Alexander
Matt Leonard
John Winterburn
Issue 1.0, March 31th 2011
Groups involved in the project
Coleshill Auxiliary Research Team Subterranea Britannica
The Ridgeway Military and Aviation
Research Group
Great War Archaeology Group
University of Bristol
The National Trust
Contents ................................................................................................................................................. 2
Introduction ......................................................................................................................................... 3
Background .......................................................................................................................................... 3
Stakeholders in the project. ........................................................................................................... 4
Scope of Work. ..................................................................................................................................... 5
Walk-over Survey. .............................................................................................................................. 5
Metal Detector Survey ...................................................................................................................... 6
Equipment ........................................................................................................................................ 6
Methodology .................................................................................................................................... 6
Observations ................................................................................................................................... 7
Surface Clearance ............................................................................................................................... 8
Methodology .................................................................................................................................... 8
Structure 2 (also known as the Generator Base) .............................................................. 9
Structure 5 (also known as Hut 1) ....................................................................................... 10
Structure 6 (also known as Hut 2) ....................................................................................... 12
Structure 7 (also known as Hut 3) ....................................................................................... 13
Structure 8 (also known as Hut 4) ....................................................................................... 14
Structure 9 (also known as Hut 5) ....................................................................................... 14
Ha-ha Survey ..................................................................................................................................... 14
Background ................................................................................................................................... 14
Methodology ................................................................................................................................. 15
Results ............................................................................................................................................ 15
Finds Report ...................................................................................................................................... 16
Methodology ................................................................................................................................. 16
Processing ..................................................................................................................................... 17
Notable Finds ............................................................................................................................... 19
Conclusions and Findings ............................................................................................................ 21
Notes. ................................................................................................................................................... 21
Appendix A. The Features Register .......................................................................................... 22
Appendix B. Measured sketches ................................................................................................ 24