York Historic Environment Record

An archaeological evaluation carried out at land off New Lane, Huntington comprising the excavation of 46 trenches, that were positioned to test the results of a previous geophysical survey of the site. The trenching revealed a limited number of archaeological features and the majority of the potential archaeological features highlighted by the geophysical survey proved to be of natural origin. The earliest dated features detected were a pit and a gully, containing artefacts dated to 14th - 15th centuries. The remainder of dated features comprised of shallow gullies and pits; these were of a late 17th to early 20th century date. It is most likely these features relate to the agricultural management of the landscape during the post-medieval to early modern periods. An undated track-way defined by two parallel ditches on an east-northeast to west-southwest alignment was also identified. At its eastern end this track-way feature appeared to turn to respect the presence of a Roman camp, which survives as a shallow earthwork, and is designated as a Scheduled Monument. It is likely that the track-way post-dated the camp but must have been constructed during a period when the monument was well defined as an earthwork. Another undated ditch on a similar alignment as the track-way was also recorded and probably represented a former field boundary. The only evidence for Roman activity revealed by the evaluation was a residual sherd of 2nd - 4th century pottery sherd recovered from a furrow fill.