THE BIG DIG: If YOU are interested in the archaeology of this area, live in the area and are prepared to have a go yourself, why not take part in Time Team's BIG DIG this summer? On the weekend of 28-29 June 2003, Channel 4's Time Team will host Britain's biggest ever mass archaeological dig. And YOU can join in. They want thousands of you, all over the country, to dig a test pit 1 metre (3 feet) square and no more than 60 centimetres (2 feet) deep and then tell them what you find. Every night from Sunday 22 June 2003, Tony Robinson and the team will be presenting live TV coverage of preparations for the big event from around the country. Click here to go to the Time Team Website:http://www.channel4.com/history/timeteam/ for more information, and details of how to register YOUR garden for the dig. |
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MAP SHOWING AREA OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SIGNIFICANCE (AAS61) within LEVERSTOCK GREEN |
THE LEVERSTOCK GREEN CHRONICLE |
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NB. The original map from Dacorum Borough Council has had to be removed because of Copyright legislation. I have replace it with these two home drawn versions traced from the original. The area concerned covers the whole of Westwick Farm and the Football Club, part of the school playing fields, and a section running along Westwick Row SE of the junction with Pancake Lane, covering the plots from Leverstock Cottage to Dell Cottage and including Handpost Lodge Gardens. Essentially it covers the currently undeveloped ground within DBC's jurisdiction, surrounding Westwick Row. The initial AAS61 was included within DBC's Deposit Draft for the Local Plan 1991-2011 published in October 1998. Following representations made by Barbara Chapman and LGVA at the Public Inquiry into the Local Plan which recommended that the AAS should be considerably enlarged, the Inspector saught the opinion of County Archaeologist Stuart Bryant. He concluded that he agreed me (Barbara Chapman) in that the whole area was potentially of considerable Archaological importance, and recommended that the AAS be enlarged as shown on the second map below. This was not as extensive an area as I had wished as it excluded for the most part any area which had already been developed for housing. I still beleive that as many of the houses within the roughly triangular area bordered by of Breakspear Way, the A4147 ( Leverstock Green Way/Leverstock Green Road) and Westwick Row might well be harbouring useful finds within their gardens. |
THE BIG DIG: If YOU are interested in the archaeology of this area, live in the area and are prepared to have a go yourself, why not take part in Time Team's BIG DIG this summer? On the weekend of 28-29 June 2003, Channel 4's Time Team will host Britain's biggest ever mass archaeological dig. And YOU can join in. They want thousands of you, all over the country, to dig a test pit 1 metre (3 feet) square and no more than 60 centimetres (2 feet) deep and then tell them what you find. Every night from Sunday 22 June 2003, Tony Robinson and the team will be presenting live TV coverage of preparations for the big event from around the country. Click here to go to the Time Team Website:http://www.channel4.com/history/timeteam/ for more information, and details of how to register YOUR garden for the dig. |
THE BIG DIG |
MAPS SHOWING AAS 61 ~ LEVERSTOCK GREEN |
