Archaeological Desk-Based Assessment of Garden Street and Broad Lane, Sheffield, South Yorkshire
Bibliographic record
Abstract
In July 2007, ARCUS were commissioned by Merlin Estates to undertake a desk-based assessment of land at Garden Street and Broad Lane, Sheffield, South Yorkshire (SK 34935 87524). The plot comprises the premises of Imprints at 23 Garden Street and the Sheffield Window Centre at 60-70 Broad Lane. The assessment included a site visit, along with documentary and cartographic research. The desk-based assessment indicates that in 1637, the proposal area was located immediately north of Broad Lane, a route which may have developed as a droveway during the medieval period, when the site itself is likely to have been part of the commons of Sheffields Town Field. There is no evidence relating directly to the proposal area prior to 1736, when it was undeveloped land. However, by 1779 the site contained a number of allotment gardens with associated small sheds. The proposal area had been developed by 1808, although individual structures were not shown until 1853 when the site was occupied by terraced and back-to-back housing. In addition to these domestic properties, retail and small industrial premises were also present within the site by 1876. The 19th-century structures were demolished in 1935 during municipal clearance programmes and were replaced by the present- day buildings. These were constructed in 1935 by John Cooper and Sons Ltd as a single press tool works. Coopers ceased trading in 1976, with the building being sub- divided subsequently into separate Garden Street and Broad Lane premises. It is not clear if the 19th-century buildings contained cellarage, and the extent to which the construction of the 1935 works may have impacted upon any sub-surface deposits relating to the earlier structures is also unknown. If the workshop area of 23 Garden Street was levelled during the sites 20th-century redevelopment this would have destroyed any archaeological deposits that may have been present in this area. Much of the interior of 60-70 Broad Lane may have been landscaped to create a level platform during its 1935 construction. Should that be the case, this may have preserved 19th-century archaeological deposits beneath the present-day floor level. However, it is also possible that basement levels are present in this area. In that case, their construction is likely to have damaged sub-surface deposits associated with the sites 19th-century buildings. This cannot be determined on the basis of the current evidence. Should the decision be taken to demolish the extant structures, further evaluation may be required in order to assess the extent of survival of sub-surface archaeological features and deposits.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.014 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".