Russel, A. D. and Girdwood-Carroll, P. (2020). Archaeological Evaluation of land at Phase 2A Townhill Park, Southampton. Southampton City Council Archaeology Unit. https://doi.org/10.5284/1117064. Cite this using datacite

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Title:		 Archaeological Evaluation of land at Phase 2A Townhill Park, Southampton
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Series:		 Southampton Archaeology Unit unpublished report series
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Abstract:		 The Archaeology Unit of Southampton City Council carried out an evaluation of land at Townhill Park in October/November 2020 in advance of redevelopment. The site lay in an area of known archaeology and to ascertain if archaeology was present on the site some 5% of the areas where archaeology might survive was evaluated to check for the survival of archaeological deposits and if present, to define their date and nature. A total of 14 trenches were excavated. Trenches 1 to 13 were 10m long whilst Trench 14 was 20m long. All trenches were 1.8m wide. The machine excavation was carried out with a toothless bucket. The natural was London Clay at the northern end of the site and at the very southern end, with the Portsmouth Sand sub-division of the London Clay present in the centre of the site. Evidence of possible prehistoric activity was limited to a single gully located in Trench 4, near the south end of the site, and a deposit of weathered natural across much of the southern half of the site that contained burnt flint. Medieval activity was represented by a single sherd of high medieval, quartz-tempered pottery from a pit in Trench 8. A buried soil horizon across much of the site probably represents a plough soil that may have begun to develop during the middle ages, but probably continued to develop until the mid-twentieth century. The presence of chalk fragments suggest attempts to adjust the acidity. In the late 1960s extensive landscaping had truncated the deposits at the north end of the site and built up the land at the south end. The contractors had excavated a few small pits for the purpose of dumping unwanted building material. Overall, the evaluation suggests that the archaeological potential of the site is low.
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Author:		 A D Russel
P Girdwood-Carroll ORCID icon
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Publisher:		 Southampton City Council Archaeology Unit
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Year of Publication:		 2020
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Country: England
County: Hampshire
County: Southampton
District: Southampton
Parish: Southampton, unparished area
Grid Reference: 445441, 114379 (Easting, Northing)
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Created Date:		 16 Jan 2024