ENN109401 - Former Hawkins Salmon Site, Mill Lane, 2018 (Observation)

{1} Evaluation of a mixed use site including a former timber yard. The investigation was to involve the mechanical excavation of three trenches to be carried out post-demolition of the buildings on site to ground level and removal of the existing slabs. The foundations were to be left in place until the results of the evaluation were known. However, following the discovery of asbestos on the site it was agreed that an archaeological watching brief (results to follow) would be carried out during the removal of foundations ahead of the evaluation. It was also agreed that a water percolation test pits and geotechnical test pits would be excavated during this phase of work and monitored as an archaeological watching brief. Three trenches were excavated (one of which was split into two). The evaluation identified a postmedieval mill stream ditch in the east of the site on a NNW-SSE alignment running towards the millstream. In the north of the site the ground was disturbed by modern services and made ground. In the south-west of the site three features were identified including a small undated pit, an undated ditch and a ditch containing single rim sherd of Roman pottery.