Site Event/Activity record ESF24769 - Evaluation and Monitoring - Foxburrow Farm, Brightwell

Evaluation and monitoring to fulfill a condition of a planning application to fill a pronounced depression on agricultural land. The first phase of this was trial-trenching, in order to determine the character and origins of the depression. This revealed no evidence of the feature being man made and is probably a natural hollow, filled by various layers of quite sterile silty deposits. Two parallel undated ditches were identified on flat ground east of the depression, otherwise, no cut features were observed. The site was then subject to several monitoring visits while the topsoil was stripped from the area. No incised features or significant deposits were observed, nor were any finds recovered from the stripped area or upcast spoil.