Site Event/Activity record ESF23256 - Evaluation, Haverhill, Hamlet Greet, Haverhill

Excavation of a single trench within the footprint of the former factory building, and on theproposed site of a drive-through restaurant. The stratigraphy exposed in the trench sections comprised a layer of black (1 Gley N 2.5) tarmac surfacing with a gritty silt bedding layer, c.0.35m in depth, above a yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) sandy clay subsoil, 0.35m – 0.9m in depth (Figure 3, Plates 1 – 2). The natural chalk was encountered at a depth of between 0.70m and 1.5m below the present ground level. It appeared that the site had been levelled prior to construction of the factory in the 1960s, using imported subsoil. The trench was extended by 2m to the south west to compensate for the presence of a concrete pile in the centre of the trench, approximately 22m from the north-eastern end. No significant features, deposits or finds were encountered in Trench 3.