Richard Bradley, Project Officer for Worcestershire Archaeology, spoke about the exciting results of the big dig at Broadway. This was conducted prior to the work done on the Badsey Brook flood alleviation scheme, which officially opened a week earlier. The talk was well attended with around 45 people in attendance. Excavation and watching-brief work by Worcestershire Archaeology, undertaken on behalf of the Environment Agency, uncovered a large multi-period site with at least 8000 years of activity.
This included scatters of Mesolithic to early Neolithic flint debris, a complete Beaker and associated grave goods, a Bronze Age to Iron Age farmstead represented by a series of roundhouses and large enclosure ditches, Roman gullies and enclosures, multiple burials, Saxon finds and the remains of medieval agriculture.
Postscript – sadly the new flood alleviation scheme has yet to prove its worth. Just a month after Richard’s talk, Badsey Brook burst its banks and two houses in Mill Lane and gardens in Seward Road were flooded!
