Site Event/Activity record ESF22718 - Evaluation, Land off Farrier Road and Poplar Hill, Stowmarket

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Location

Location Farrier Road and Poplar Hill, Stowmarket
Grid reference Centred TM 0427 5720 (326m by 444m)
Map sheet TM05NW
Civil Parish COMBS, MID SUFFOLK, SUFFOLK

Technique(s)

Organisation

Cotswold Archaeology

Date

Not recorded.

Map

Description

Evaluation was conducted prior to the residential development of the site. 28 trial trenches were excavated in three fields. In Field 1, the geological substrated was encountered at an average depth of c.1.1m and comprised superficial deposits of loose, light brownish-yellow sand and gravel with lenses of dark bluish-grey clay. In trench 1 this was overlain by a layer of dark humic silty soil approx 0.15m thick which in turn was overlain by a layer of light yellowish-brown silty sand up to 0.21m thick. The Subsoil and topsoil with a combined thickness of c0.45m, subsequently accumulated over this. More recently, probably during the construction of the neighbouring housing estate, the ground level was raised by c.0.6m by the dumping and levelling out of soil and building waste. In trenches 2 and 3 the geological substrate was overlain by mid greyish-blue silty clay (alluvium) approx 0.8m thick, which was overlain by subsoil and topsoil. In Field 2 the geological substrate was encountered at a depth of 0.45m and was ligh yellowish-grey chalky clay. The overlying subsoil was mid yellowish-brown clayey silt approx 0.2m-0.8m thick. The topsoil was dark greyish-brown silty clay 0.3m thick. In Field 3 the geological substrate was the same as field 2 with similar subsoil c.0.14m-0.41m thick, with the thinner subsoil occuring on the crest of the hill. The ploughsoil, dark greyish-brown silty clay was c0.3m thick (S1).

Sources/Archives (1)

  • <S1> Unpublished document: Brown, R.. 2015. Archaeological Evaluation, Land off Farrier's Road and Poplar Hill, Stowmarket.

Related Monuments/Buildings (1)

  • Roman ditch and Medieval ditches at Poplar Hill, Combs , Farrier Road, Stowmarket (Monument)

Record last edited

Nov 1 2017 10:24AM

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