Site Event/Activity record ESF25896 - Evaluation - Reservoir Adjacent to Benacre Wood, Benacre

Trial Trench evaluation was conducted on the site of a proposed agricultural irrigation reservoir on Benacre Estate. Nine trenches were excavated, the topsoil was at a depth of c.0.30-0.60m and comprised a friable brownish grey loam with occasional flint pebbles and CBM. Where no archaeological features were observed the topsoil directly overlay natural drift deposits comprising firm light orange brown clay with occasional sand pockets, rare small to medium sub-angular flint pebbles and moderate small sub-rounded chalk nodules. At depths in excess of 1m (encountered in the base of some of the deeper features and observed in a cable trench excavated in the northern part of the site) this became stiff and bluish grey in colour (S1).