Site Event/Activity record ESF20699 - Abbey Farm Habitat Creation, Snape

The excavation of new ditches and ponds, and re-profiling of existing ditches as a part of an RSPB/Environment Agency habitat creation scheme was carried out on land at Abbey Farm, Snape. This required a programme of archaeological monitoring in order to record the deposit sequences revealed and any archaeological interventions present. No archaeological evidence was observed in the course of these groundworks, either in the form of incised features or pre-modern artefacts. A second phase of work monitored the insertion of a sluice gate along the southern boundary of the site and on the line of the former Great Eastern Railway (Snape Branch). A series of crag sand layers were revealed which were likely to have been imported deposits associated with the construction of the railway line during the ninteenth century. A layer of material which included fragments of medieval masonary likely to have originated from Snape Priory, to which this land formerly belonged, was also incorporated into the railway line construction material.