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activity. The evaluation comprised the machine- 

 excavation of three trenches positioned north, west 

 and east around the existing building, revealing 

 recent made ground overlying a buried soil horizon 

 of probable medieval date. No subsoil features were 

 present. A small number of artefacts of medieval 

 and post-medieval date, principally pottery, were 

 recovered from both the re-deposited layers and 

 buried soil horizon. 



lm below the present ground surface. These 

 deposits produced a single sherd of 13th- or early 

 14th-century pottery, and were sealed by made- 

 ground which contained finds of 17th/ 18th and 

 19th/20th century date respectively. The evidence 

 recovered suggests that the evaluated area was low- 

 lying marginal ground in medieval times and was 

 reclaimed by dumping soil and raising the ground 

 level in the late post-medieval period. No evidence 

 for any Saxon activity on the site was found. 



Wilton 



Fountain Site, Wilton House Millennium Project 

 (SU 1006 3006); Post-Medieval 

 Wessex Archaeology carried out an archaeological 

 watching brief during the construction of a small 

 fountain and service connections within the 

 landscape garden of Wilton House. The garden is 

 Grade I Listed in English Heritage's 'Register of 

 Parks and Gardens of special historic interest in 

 England'. Evidence of landscaping was revealed, 

 along with probable foundations of 17th-century 

 garden features and a 20th-century wall. The 

 shallow depth of wall foundations, just 100mm 

 below the gravel of the main pathway, is suggestive 

 of substantial landscaping and levelling of the area, 

 which may relate to 1 8th century work to form an 

 open parkland style garden. 



Pembroke Arms Hotel (SU 0984 3117); Post- 

 Medieval and Modern 



An evaluation was undertaken by Wessex 

 Archaeology on land just to the north of the 

 Pembroke Arms Hotel, between two streams. It lies 

 within the medieval settlement of Wilton, and just 

 beyond the probable edge of the important Saxon 

 town, the site of a Royal Palace and Mint. Two lm 

 wide trenches with a total length of 6m were 

 excavated mechanically at either end of the 

 proposed development site. Alluvial deposits, 

 approximately lm or more in thickness, lay just over 



Wroughton 



Brimble Hill (SU 1558 8028); Saxon 

 Excavation by Bernard Phillips and Peter Hyams, 

 following metal detector finds, revealed two late 6th 

 century burials in a ploughed field. One grave 



Fig. 2. Wroughton: Saxon burials (scale lm) 



containing the remains of a child cut the grave of 

 an elderly adult male. Associated with the former 

 were a pair of large gilded saucer brooches and two 

 beads, one of amber and the other of glass. The 

 adult burial was accompanied by a sword, two 

 spears, a shield boss and a small buckle (Figure 2). 



High Street (SU 1435 8025); Modern 



An evaluation undertaken by CAT revealed only 



modern deposits. 



