Site Event/Activity record ESF23065 - Evaluation at 111 Westley Rd, Bury St Edmunds

Evaluation trenching, and later site monitoring over an area that was not available during the initial site works, for a development of five new dwellings. Documentary and cartographic sources were consulted at the local record office following evaluation. There were 5 evaluation trenches, the glaciofluvial deposit exposed in the base of the trenches were pale brown or orange sand with widespread pockets of degraded chalk re-deposited by glacial re-working below 0.2m-0.35m of topsoil and 0.15-0.4m of mid brown sandy subsoil. Following the evaluation, monitoring of foundation trenches was conducted, the trenches were up to 2.1m deep (S1).