Site Event/Activity record ESF26670 - Evaluation - Land west of Fishponds Way, Haughley

2018: Between 1st and 5th October 2018 Foundations Archaeology undertook a programme of archaeological evaluation on land west of Fishponds Way, Haughley. The evaluation comprised the excavation and recording of fifteen trenches within the area of a proposed residential development. The trenches were located in order to test possible archaeological features which had been identified by the previous geophysical survey and to provide a representative sample across the site. The natural sands and clays were present at a depth of between 0.35m to 1.32m below Modern ground, with the natural sloping down from 44.22 OD in Trench 3 in the northeast to 37.58m OD in Trench 14 to the southeast. The general stratigraphic sequence overlying the natural substrates comprised subsoil, overlaid by topsoil. However, subsoil was not present within Trenches 3, 6, 7 and 9, which were located in the northeast and central parts of the site. (S1)