{"id":3929,"date":"2021-02-10T16:07:15","date_gmt":"2021-02-10T16:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/projects\/a382-a383-connection-road\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T17:14:51","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T17:14:51","slug":"a382-a383-connection-road","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/projects\/a382-a383-connection-road\/","title":{"rendered":"A382 and A382-A383 Link Archaeology Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Devon County Council have implemented <a href=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/roadsandtransport\/traffic-information\/transport-planning\/a382-corridor\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">significant infrastructure improvements to the north-west of Newton Abbot<\/a>. These include improvements to the A382 between Whitehill Cross and Drum Bridges, the construction of a new link road from Jetty Marsh to Whitehill Cross and the construction of a new link road from the A382 at Forches Cross to the A383 west of Newton Abbot. Archaeological mitigation works have been undertaken by professional archaeologists from Devon-based AC archaeology commissioned by SLR Consulting Ltd on behalf of Devon County Council Engineering Design Group. <i><\/i><\/p>\n<p>Read about what the archaeologists found in the <a href=\"https:\/\/redirect.devon.gov.uk?link=A382ConnectionRoad\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bi-Weekly Journal of the Excavations<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2021\/02\/Photo-2-Clipped.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-3932 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2021\/02\/Photo-2-Clipped-800x419.jpg\" alt=\"A colour ground photograph of the excavation site showing a fenced off area of land that has been stripped of topsoil.\" width=\"800\" height=\"419\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2021\/02\/Photo-2-Clipped-800x419.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2021\/02\/Photo-2-Clipped-240x126.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2021\/02\/Photo-2-Clipped-768x402.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2021\/02\/Photo-2-Clipped-1536x804.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2021\/02\/Photo-2-Clipped-640x335.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2021\/02\/Photo-2-Clipped.jpg 1997w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Devon County Council have implemented significant infrastructure improvements to the north-west of Newton Abbot. These include improvements to the A382 between Whitehill Cross and Drum Bridges, the construction of a new link road from Jetty Marsh to Whitehill Cross and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/projects\/a382-a383-connection-road\/\" aria-label=\"Continue reading A382 and A382-A383 Link Archaeology Project\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":164,"featured_media":0,"parent":52,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-sidebar.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-3929","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-25 20:34:20","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/164"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3929"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4444,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3929\/revisions\/4444"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/52"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/historicenvironment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}