Site Event/Activity record ESF23677 - Evaluation - Endobec, St Johns Street, Mildenhall

Trial trench evaluation in advance of the construction of a dwelling. One trench was excavated. Topsoil was a garden soil consisting of dark grey-brown, loose silty sand at a max depth 0.33m and overlay subsoil which was a mid orange-brown layer present to a thickness of 0.19m and a max depth of 0.47m. This consisted of compact silty sand, with moderately frequent sub angular chalk pebbles and flecks. Below the subsoil was a colluvial layer, consisting of a compact, mid orange-brown silty sand at a depth of 0.42m-0.9m and was only presnet in the southern thirn of Trench 1. The natural was a compact light grey-brown/light orange-brown sand with a band of compact light yellow-white chalk in the middle of the trenche and was present from a minimum depth of 0.85m (S1).