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An Archaeological Watching Brief During Ground Investigation Works at Princes Reach, Princes Dock,Liverpool. Site Code 174. |
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Museum of Liverpool Archaeology unpublished report series
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Report (in Series)
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Abstract: |
The report describes the results of an archaeological watching brief conducted during Ground Investigation (GI) works at Princes Reach, Princes Dock, Liverpool, Merseyside. The archaeological element of the project was principally aimed at locating and assessing the retaining wall to Princes Dock and a former sea wall shown on historic mapping to the landward (east) of the retaining wall. The site has little or no potential for remains pre-dating the late 18th century. The watching brief has demonstrated that the Princes Dock retaining wall survives c. 0.3 to 0.5 m below the present ground surface, its line broadly coinciding with the western edge of the bitumen which surfaces a north-south aligned strip running across the centre of the site. However, the upper surface of the wall is in poor condition, the original coping stones having been removed in the 1860s and their granite replacements in the 1920s when concrete staging was constructed to the west. The wall is built in a mix of red and yellow sandstone and bonded with cement. Stonework likely to relate to the 1803 sea wall was located in two other trenches though it is deeply buried beneath unstable layers of rubble fill c. 3-4 m thick and could not be directly investigated. If this feature is the 1803 sea wall it is estimated to survive to a height of about 1.5 m. No other archaeological features were present. |
Author: |
Mark H Adams
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Publisher: |
National Museums Liverpool
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Other Person/Org: |
Historic England (OASIS Reviewer)
Please note: this record has been validated by-proxy by Historic England.
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Year of Publication: |
2016
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Locations: |
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Liverpool |
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Merseyside |
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LIVERPOOL |
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England |
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Princes Reach, Princes Dock, Liverpool. |
Grid Reference: 333700, 390850 (Easting, Northing)
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liverpoo1-283492 |
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Final report |
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Digital: PDF and WORD documents
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Created Date: |
18 Aug 2017 |