Watching Brief

Date 4 August 2016

Event ID 1024058

Category Recording

Type Watching Brief

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1024058

NT 25681 77027 A watching brief was carried out, 4 August 2016, during the drilling of boreholes associated with the proposed construction of an extension to the school. The work was required due to the proximity of the school to the medieval core of Newhaven and the discovery of an

inhumation during a previous evaluation and subsequent excavation in the school grounds.

Three test pits, measuring c0.3 x 0.3m, were hand excavated to a depth of 1.2m with a borehole drilled through each to a depth of 5m below ground surface. The spoil from the test pits and the boreholes was inspected, and ceramic pot sherds, ceramic building material and industrial slag recovered. These are likely to date to the post-medieval period and relate to demolition and midden layers pre-dating the construction of the school. Boulder clay was encountered at a depth of between c3.5–4.5m below ground level.

Archive: NRHE (intended)

Funder: RSK Environment Ltd

Genevieve Shaw – AOC Archaeology Group

(Source: DES, Volume 17)