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Archaeological Evaluation at the Sainsbury's and Life Sciences Park, Bristol Road, Selly Oak, Birmingham |
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Worcestershire Archaeology unpublished report series
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Abstract: |
An archaeological evaluation was undertaken on behalf of PJ Carey (Contractors) Ltd, at the Sainsbury's and Life Sciences Park, Bristol Road, Selly Oak, Birmingham (centred on National grid reference SP 0420 8300). Six trenches were excavated. The investigations were intended to determine the state of preservation, phasing and use of the canal, the wharf side activity, and a group of lime kilns adjacent. The site was cleared and levelled by the client in advance of the evaluation, which was undertaken in two stages. The presence of a live high voltage electric cable along the route of the former canal limited the area which could be investigated safely. Due to this, to truncation associated with the previous industrial works on the site and the present groundworks, along with the great depth of modern overburden, no in situ structural remains of the canal, the lime kilns or other wharf side activity were revealed. The lime kilns appear to have been largely removed during either the construction or demolition of the last factory complex that occupied this part of the site. Sections of brick walls were recorded which may relate to these later works, and a former east to west aligned boundary wall. The state of preservation of the canal and associated structures prior to the present works cannot be commented upon. Over two metres of overburden was recorded within all trenches, of 19th and 20th century date, with industrial waste, plastics, metal, glass and building rubble. Artefactual material was of late 18th to 20th century date, including transfer-printed china, some which appears to have been 'seconds', clay tobacco pipe of local manufacture, modern pottery and other domestic debris. A vitrified fire brick, of a type used in kilns and furnaces, whilst residual within a later dump deposit, was the only physical evidence of the presence of lime kilns on the site. |
Author: |
T M Vaughan
J Webster
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Publisher: |
Worcestershire Archaeology
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Historic England (OASIS Reviewer)
Birmingham City HER (OASIS Reviewer)
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Year of Publication: |
2015
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Sainsbury's and Life Sciences Park, Bristol Road, Selly Oak |
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West Midlands |
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Birmingham |
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BIRMINGHAM |
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England |
Grid Reference: 404200, 283000 (Easting, Northing)
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fieldsec1-247771 |
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Report Reference 2008 |
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25 Apr 2019 |