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to the east of the farm buildings. A small assemb- 
lage of Late Neolithic or Bronze Age worked flints 
was recovered from the fills of the above features. 
Warminster 
Warminster School (ST 870 453); Iron Age, Roman 
and Post-medieval 
A single trench dug by Michael Heaton, 
represented 6% of the footprint of a proposed new 
science block at Warminster School in West 
Wiltshire. The cutting revealed a number of features 
of post 18th-century date within generally artefact- 
ually sterile soils from which a single sherd of late 
Iron Age or early Roman pottery was recovered. 
Westbury 
Kendrick’s Garage (ST 87280 51490); Medieval—Post- 
medieval 
Wessex Archaeology undertook a preliminary 
archaeological evaluation of land at Kendrick’s 
Garage, Westbury where it was proposed to demolish 
three garage buildings and construct thirteen 
houses. Three trenches were mechanically excavated 
while the site was still in use as a garage and second- 
hand car lot. Archaeological remains were 
encountered in all three trenches, demonstrating the 
survival of occupational remains from the medieval 
period onwards. In trench 1, fronting on to West 
End, was an area of made ground, possibly 
representing the remains of a house platform. Post- 
holes and a beamslot suggest that a later building was 
constructed. Although none of these features was 
directly dated, post-medieval pottery was recovered 
from the area. Trench 2, running alongside Edward 
Street, contained two ditches and three pits of 
medieval and post-medieval date. Stone footings for 
a sleeper beam overlay the ditches suggesting a 
timber-built structure, while both stone and brick 
foundations were identified against the western 
edge of the trench. These probably date to the last 
two centuries, although the stone foundations may 
represent an earlier phase of building. The third 
trench with a property fronting on to Maristow 
Street, contained a medieval ditch, aligned north- 
north-east to south-south-west, the fills of which 
had been cut by a post-medieval pit. 
Westbury 
Madbrook Farm (ST 872 497); Mesolithic to Modern 
Fieldwalking by Mark Corney and Michael Heaton 
of five plots totalling an area of 38ha along parts of 
the proposed eastern route of the Westbury by-pass 
recovered significant patterns of artefact distribution 
indicating the presence of human activity from the 
Mesolithic to the present day. The most significant 
groupings were of prehistoric date, mainly lithic 
scatters, and evidence of an actively weathering Late 
Bronze Age/Iron Age midden site near Beggars 
Knoll. 
Westbury 
Storridge Farm (ST 8530 5245); Medieval and Post- 
medieval 
A field evaluation on land adjacent to Storridge 
Farm was carried out by AC archaeology during 
November 2002. The work comprised a detailed 
survey of surface features and the machine- 
excavation of eleven 30m x 2m trenches. The site 
contains the well-preserved remains of a water 
meadow system of the common and widespread 
‘ridge and furrow’ type. The associated structural 
elements indicate a 19th-century date for its 
construction. Excavation of trenches provided 
profiles through these earthworks, but also revealed 
evidence for earlier activity in the form of linear 
ditches containing finds of early medieval date. In 
one of these ditches, located in the NW corner of 
the field next to Storridge Farm, the quantity of 
pottery recovered and the large unabraded size of 
individual sherds, suggests that settlement of this 
date must be close by, either immediately to the 
east, or most probably beneath the existing farm 
complex. Other ditches identified on the site are 
likely to relate to early field boundaries pre-dating 
the construction of the water meadows. 
Winterbourne Monkton 
The Cottages (SU 0970 7190); Medieval 
In November 2002 Oxford Archaeology (OA) 
carried out an archaeological watching brief at ‘The 
Cottages’, Winterbourne Monkton. The work was 
commissioned by Bybrook Developments in 
advance of a barn conversion and renovation to 
cottages. The watching brief revealed two undated 
features pre-dating the cottages. The barn dates to 
the post-medieval period. A fragment of medieval 
carved limestone basin was recovered from the 
disturbed soil underneath the barn floor, which will 
be held at Oxford Archaeology and finally 
deposited at WANHS Museum, Devizes. 
Winterbourne Stoke 
A303 Stonehenge: Areas R and T (SU 112 416-138 
419); Prehistoric 
Wessex Archaeology undertook the archaeological 
evaluation of the Preferred Route of the A303 
