Site Event/Activity record ESF25796 - Archaeological Watching Brief on the Acton Bull Lane Sewer Rising Main Replacement, Long Melford

An archaeological watching brief was conducted on behalf of Anglian Water Services Ltd during the excavation of an open and cut trench for a replacement water main. The watching brief involved monitoring a 900m stretch of trenching from Chad Brook and along Bull Lane. All of the trenching was undertaklen within existing highways. The open cut renching began west of the A134. The trench was excavated to a depth of 1.6m. The road asphalt measured 0.2m deep and the concrete measured between 0.3m-0.4m deep. Below the concrete make-up layer two natural deposits were encountered. The upper natural deposit was mid brown clay with large flint nodules at the limit of excavation (S1).