| Title: |
The Heights, Brooklands, Weybridge, Surrey. Geo-Archaeological Borehole Survey |
| Number of Pages: |
22 |
| Biblio Note |
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| Publication Type: |
Report
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| Abstract: |
A geo-archaeological borehole survey was undertaken of the proposed development site. The borehole profile revealed between 0.65-4.5m of made ground across the floodplain, including infill of a former river channel. The made ground overlay between 0.82-6.00m of alluvium over gravel. Three alluvial horizons were recorded. The alluvial sediment largely comprised gleyed coarse sands from which a general history of the floodplain and channel alluviation could be ascertained. The coarse (sand) alluviation indicated relatively high-energy deposition over a long time period (i.e. a fast-flowing watercourse) and the lack of fine-grained alluvium and of humic and organic horizons tended to suggest a lack of stasis, and of long term stable conditions. In palaeo-environmental terms there was a low potential for the recovery of pollen to aid in the determination of the local vegetation history. Further, no dateable organic horizons were recovered which would have provided a chronological framework. The survey also demonstrated that there was a low potential for significant archaeological deposits to be buried by alluvium within the floodplain. [Au(abr)] |
| Author: |
Michael J Allen
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| Publisher: |
Wessex Archaeology
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| Year of Publication: |
2001
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| Note: |
Date Of Issue From:
2001
Date Of Coverage From:
01
Date Of Coverage To:
01
Editorial Expansion:
Site name: THE HEIGHTS, BROOKLANDS, WEYBRIDGE
Study area:
Investigation type: Evaluation
District: Elmbridge
Monument:
Ngr: TQ07006260
Parish:
Postcode: KT130NE
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| Source: |
BIAB
(Archaeological Investigations Project (AIP))
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| Created Date: |
19 Jan 2009 |
