Drigg, Burnt Mound, Cumbria: Project Design for Post-Excavation Assessment (Execution Stage 1)

This report was produced at the request of English Heritage. It was originally written in 2000 prior to publication of Management of Research Projects in the Historic Environment (MoRPHE) (English Heritage 2006) and Strategic Framework for Historical Environment Activities and Programmes in English Heritage (SHAPE) (English Heritage 2008). However, the report has been redrafted in the spirit of both MoRPHE and SHAPE.

It presents the results of archaeological evaluation at the site of a putative Bronze Age hearth or burnt mound at Drigg, West Cumbria (SD 0450 9860), undertaken in October 2000 by Oxford Archaeology North (OA North). The work was commissioned by English Heritage following concerns raised by the Cumbria County Archaeologist and members of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society (hereafter CWAAS), regarding accelerated erosion of the site.