Site Event/Activity record ESF30766 - Monitoring - Church of All Saints Laxfield

Following the excavation of two small test-pits within the body of the tower of All Saints Church, Laxfield, monitoring of the groundworks in advance of constructing toilet facilities was carried out. The existing concrete floor was removed and the ground level reduced by between 0.45m at the east end and 0.65m at the west end. A brick floor, originally interpreted as the base for a stove, was reported to have been present throughout the majority of the tower rather than in one discrete area, but had been removed by contractors prior to the first monitoring visit by an archaeologist. Monitoring of the service trench outside of the tower revealed disturbed ground immediately west of the church but nothing more than topsoil over undisturbed boulder clay where it followed the western church boundary.