P0577 A59/A56 Junction Improvements, Skipton

Title: P0577 A59/A56 Junction Improvements, Skipton
Alternative Title: 1998.6 YORAT A59/A56 Junction Improvements, Skipton
Description: The majority of the deposits encountered during this watching brief proved tobe natural in origin. The earliest of these may represent an ancient ground surface which had been subject to erosion by running water. It appears that ponding occurred and a deposit consisting mainly of snail shells built up prior to the formation of a peat bed. The antiquity of the peat bed was suggestred by the deposits of natural clay which had formed above it. A stone culvert with a suggested date of no later than the 19th century was cut through the natural clay and had probably been constructed as a drain to collect run off from the road surface.
Type: Watching Brief
Date: 15 June 1998 – 8 July 1998
Creator: York Archaeological Trust
Contributor: Bryan Antoni (fieldwork)
Spatial Coverage: A59/A56 Junction improvements, Skipton, North Yorkshire; SE92905050
Monument Type: Monument Type - Culvert; Monument Type - Agriculture and Subsistence; Monument Type - Natural
Period: Post-Medieval; Modern; Undated

Position: 6533 (41 views)