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Bedford College Technology Building, Bedford: Archaeological Monitoring and Recording |
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Albion Archaeology unpublished report series
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Abstract: |
Bedford College were granted planning permission for the demolition of a smoking shelter and the erection of a two- and three-storey technology building, incorporating electrical and engineering workshops with associated works. Archaeological observation and investigation comprised the excavation a service trench, ground reduction of the main building footprint for the installation of a piling mat and the excavation of a soakaway pit. The uppermost layers consisted of demolition or construction make-up layers, associated with the mid-20th-century construction of the college and later works on the site. A layer of buried topsoil immediately below demolition and construction layers represents the latest phase of use of this area as garden or open space. Two layers below the buried topsoil layer are interpreted as cultivation soils. The upper layer contained post-medieval/modern brick and tile and both contained small amounts of pottery ranging in date from the late Saxon to late medieval period. The geological deposit observed at the base of the soakaway trench consisted of clay alluvium. A dark band of silt above this alluvium may have formed under marshy or river-side conditions. The clay alluvium in the soakaway trench differs from the gravel geology found a short distance to the south during the evaluation. The difference marks the change from clay alluvium in a central river channel to sand and gravel terrace deposits. The results confirmed the findings of the evaluation and show modern demolition and construction layers above mixed cultivation soils in the upper part of the soil profile. |
Author: |
I Turner
R Wardill
J Wells
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Publisher: |
Albion Archaeology
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Historic England (OASIS Reviewer)
Cambridgeshire Historic Environment Record (OASIS Reviewer)
Please note: this record has been validated by-proxy by Historic England.
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Year of Publication: |
2017
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Bedford College: Technology Building |
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Bedfordshire |
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Bedford |
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BEDFORD |
Country: |
England |
Grid Reference: 504900, 249400 (Easting, Northing)
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albionar1-257743 |
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2017/185 |
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17 Jul 2019 |