Site Data from an Archaeological Evaluation at Garon Sports Park, Garon Park, Southend-on-Sea, Essex September 2019
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Introduction
This collection comprises images and GIS data from an archaeological evaluation undertaken at Garon Sports Park, Garon Park, Southend-on-Sea, Essex by Cotswold Archaeology in September 2019, in advance of the construction of a new artificial turf football pitch.
Eight trenches were excavated across the 0.93ha Site. Previous archaeological works immediately to the north of the Site in the early 1990s, including field walking and targeted excavation, recorded worked flint and a pit possibly dated to the Late Iron Age, while other investigations in the wider area have identified remains of Late Bronze Age, Early Iron Age and Saxon date.
Evidence for truncation of the deposit sequence was noted across the development area, with the Site area potentially having been levelled and drained prior to the establishment of turf pitches, with topsoil present only as a very thin turf horizon overlying sterile subsoil and brickearth deposits. The evaluation identified a single pit of Late Bronze Age to Early Iron Age date. No other archaeological features were located during the works.
