Cullen, B. and Hawkins, H. (2022). 75 The Avenue, Southampton, Archaeological Evaluation Report. Wessex Archaeology. https://doi.org/10.5284/1113882. Cite this using datacite

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Title:		 75 The Avenue, Southampton, Archaeological Evaluation Report
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Series:		 Wessex Archaeology unpublished report series
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Abstract:		 The evaluation was undertaken on a 0.84 ha parcel of land and comprised the excavation and recording of seven trial trenches and two geoarchaeological Paleolithic test pits. Three of the trial trenches measured 20 m in length, two measured 15 m in length and two measured 10 m in length. All were 2.5m wide. All trenches were excavated by mechanical excavator with a toothless bucket. Machine excavation of the geoarchaeological test pits was carried out under the constant supervision of a trained geoarchaeologist, who recorded and numbered the sequence of sedimentary units as excavation progressed following standard descriptive practices. The work was carried out in two phases, prior to demolition of the existing buildings and post-demolition. The trial trench evaluation revealed no evidence for any archaeological features or artefacts predating the late post-medieval and recent/modern periods, and features that were recorded can be shown to relate to buildings or property boundaries shown on the 1st and latter editions of Ordnance Survey mapping and predating the use of the site in the modern era as a car dealership. No evidence was revealed that could be correlated to buildings shown on an 1846 map of the site, although a single wall recorded in trench 3 may belong to this period. Brickearth was recorded at varying depths across the Site and the nature and varying depth of redeposited brickearth recorded overlying the undisturbed intact clean brickearth would appear to indicate medieval/post-med agriculture and 19th and 20th century gardening, with more recent disturbance in some trenches likely truncation of this deposit relating to development of the site since the Victorian period, and which is likely to have impacted the survival of archaeological remains, if present, predating the post-medieval period. The results of the Palaeolithic test pitting and the absence of significant Pleistocene sequences and Lower to Middle Palaeolithic artefacts, indicate that the Palaeolithic potential of the Site is considered to be low.
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Author:		 Benjamin Cullen
Hayley Hawkins
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Publisher:		 Wessex Archaeology
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Other Person/Org:		 Southampton HER (OASIS Reviewer)
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Year of Publication:		 2022
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Country: England
County: Hampshire
County: Southampton
District: Southampton
Parish: Southampton, unparished area
Grid Reference: 441919, 113329 (Easting, Northing)
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PIT (Monument Type England)
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POST MEDIEVAL WALL (Tag)
WALL (Monument Type England)
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POST MEDIEVAL LAYER (Tag)
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UNCERTAIN (Historic England Periods)
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OASIS Id: wessexar1-511929
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Created Date:		 20 Oct 2023