| Description | Area, now quarried out, formerly interpreted as the site of Roman Settlement, possibly an extension of PRN 2245. M.Faull stated (1977) that when the sandstone quarrying began, the quarry produced large quantitiies of Roman material apparently from burials. No supporting documentation is given for this statement. However, amongst other miscellaneous material lodged in the SMR relating to Roman settlement in the area have been found xeroxes of a number of Leeds Museum Accession Register entries and a handwritten transcript headed Copy of field notes, with a Museum Accession No. These documents make reference to finds, some of 2nd century A.D. date, from a large quarry and a small quarry at Adel, provenances which were equated with Blackhill Quarry by A.B.Sumpter in 1988 (and by M.L.Faull in 1977?). It should be noted, however, that during excavation in the 1930s around High Leas Farm there were discovered at least one large quarry (containing Antonine pottery), and numerous pits formed by quarry for boulders in Roman times. In addition, although the dates of accession for all of the Leeds finds fall in the mid 1960s, the donor in the majority of cases is listed as being Kitson Clark, if this can be presumed to be Mary Kitson Clark, who was responsible for much of the 1930s excavation, then it can be argued that the finds in Leeds Museum are just as likely (if not more likely) to have come from the High Leas excavations (PRN 2245) as from Blackhill Quarry. No further work in advance of development. To amend as necessary to discuss in context of symbol on Jefferys map and of the geophuysical results immediately to the east. |