Site Event/Activity record ESF26152 - Evaluation - Woods Lane, Melton

Trial trench evaluation was carried out ahead of development. 10 trenches were excavated (three 3m and seven 50m in length). The trenches were systematic to test previous geophysical survey anomalies and blank areas. Undisturbed natural deposits comprised a light brown silty-sand, with patches of sandy-clay observed in the trenches in the south-eastern area, containing small flints and some chalk inclusions, observed between 0.45m-0.6m beneath the ground surface. Topsoil was a loose light grey-brown silty-sand with occasional small stones and flints 0.3m thick. This overlay subsoil - a loose orange brown silty-sand with occasional small stones and flints 0.15m-0.3m in thickness (S1).