Site Event/Activity record ESF24278 - Monitoring - Ferry Farm, Butley

Archaeological monitoring of groundworks was required as part of a planning application for the erection of a new extension to Ferry Farm. An irregular area 13mx9m was stripped around the north-eastern corner of the existing building, to a depth of c.0.4m under constant monitoring. During the ground clearance and levelling strip it became apparent that the house was located in a probable old sand extraction pit with c. 3m of sand already removed from the original hillside slope at the northern end of the pit, down to an estimated c.0.9m of sand removed by the from wall of the building (S1).