Site Event/Activity record ESF22222 - Monitoring, 2 Southgate Street, Bury St Edmunds

Monitoring in 2008 of footing trenches for an extension and car port, as well as the strop of the car port, at the rear of No.2 Southgate Street, a medieval timber-framed building in the medieval core of the town. Evidence of an earlier part of the building was seen. The first site visit was made after the existing rear range had been demolished and the floors within the building removed. The ground over the footprint of the proposed extension had already been reduced to formation level, removing an overburden of relatively recent build up. The excavation of the footing trenches was observed and recorded, and on a second visit the excavation of a soakaway and the drain run was observed (S1).