Site Event/Activity record ESF20858 - Monitoring - Rear Extension to 97 Risbygate Street, Bury St Edmunds

Monitoring was carried out during the excavation of footing trenches for an extension to the rear of 97 Risbygate Street. The site was visited during the reduction of the site level by 0.8m which involved the removal of post-medieval soils and several large block of concrete. During the excavation of the footing trenches, limited hand digging of selected features took place and spoil removed by machine was examined. The footings varied in depth with the side footings generally shallower. Where the cross-footings were interrupted by pits, or where the structural needs of the building required it, the pits were totally excavated within the trenches. The surface of the site was not cleaned and the removal of concrete blocks had obscured the surface, therefore further possible features could not be identified. The development was c.8m set back from the present day street frontage (S1).