Abbotsinch Airfield

NS 485 667 A programme of archaeological monitoring took place between 19–25 January 2007 during groundbreaking works for the building of a car park at Abbotsinch playing field. The archaeological works were designed to mitigate the impact on any archaeological remains within the development area. Two structures of WWII or early post-war date were identified: a reinforced concrete settling tank and a linear arrangement of large concrete slabs set down as hard standing. Two sherds of late medieval/early modern pottery were also recovered. No further archaeologically significant features were exposed or recorded. The site, which lay next to the W bank of the White Cart Water, had been waterlogged and subject to flooding until

the insertion of field drains in the Improvement period, and may have been subject to additional landscaping in recent times.

Report deposited with WoSAS and archive with RCAHMS.

Funder: Jacobs.