Site Event/Activity record ESF21551 - Evaluation, 29-31 Southgate Street

Evaluation was carried out ahead of development of a single block of three residential properties. The site is c.0.026ha located on the eastern side of Southgate Street. The site was formerly occupied by a large two storey modern building which served as a furniture retail store with warehouse space. This building was demolished with minimum disturbance to sub-surface deposits. A sequence of undisturbed deposits was recorded on the site, which date from the late medieval to post-medieval periods. Borehole data also records a deep sequence of alluvial materical, including c.6m of peaty deposits. No undisturbed geological or riverine deposits were encountered by the trial trench, the deepest deposits being metaled surfaces exposed at c.1.6m below the surface. Borehole survey results suggest that around a further 0.7m of anthropogenic deposits may exist below (S1).