NHER 65266 (Monument record) - Late post-medieval to modern and undated features

May 2019. Desk-based Assessment,
Heritage assessment of former Limagrain site.
This study concluded that the archaeological potential of the site was generally low, with remains of Late Saxon or medieval date the most likely to be present.
No features of interest were noted during a brief site visit.
Information from draft report. Final version awaited.
P. Watkins (HES), 9 January 2022.

October 2021. Trial Trenching.
Evaluation of proposed development site.
The fourteen trenches excavated revealed only a small number of linear and discrete features, all of which lay at the northern end of the site.
The linear features included two north-to-south aligned ditches, one of which contained 20th-century waste and was probably associated with a former field boundary depicted on the Docking tithe map of 1840 (S1). The second ditch lay at the western edge of the site and may have been associated with an earlier incarnation of this boundary (which also appears on 19th-century maps). A single fragment of 19th- or 20th-century bottle glass was recovered from the top of its fill. A pair of adjacent north-north-east to south-south-west gully exposed in a trench between these two ditches were of a more uncertain nature, particularly as they produced no finds.
The discrete features included an undated shallow pit that contained fragments of animal bone and several late 19th- or early 20th-century refuse pits or soakaways in the north-east corner of the site.
A number of modern features were clearly associated with the bakery buildings that had formerly occupied the site. There was however no evidence for widespread truncation, with what was probably an buried agricultural soil present in all of the trenches, sealed beneath a made ground deposit.
No unstratified finds were retained, those found being all of late post-medieval or modern date.
Information from draft report. Final version awaited.
P. Watkins (HES), 9 January 2022.