Furness Academy South Campus, Cumbria. Evaluation Report.

Cumbria County Council requested that Oxford Archaeology North (OA North) submit proposals for an archaeological evaluation of land outlined for the proposed New Academy building, Barrow, Cumbria (Fig 1) (centred SD2082 6988). The development area had previously been subject to a desk-based assessment, which had suggested a possible location of a hillfort there. However, it was evident that the area had been severely landscaped in the past and a further stage of assessment (December 2010) was undertaken to assess the potential of the area for evaluation trenching (OA North 2010).
Subsequently OA North were commissioned to undertake the evaluation fieldwork which took place between the 5th and the 7th March 2012.