P1140 Land off Navigation Road
Item
- Title
- P1140 Land off Navigation Road
- Alternative Title
- YORYM: 2003.306 Land off Navigation Road, York - Evaluation
- Description
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In an initial phase of investigation, two boreholes, nine window samples and seven test pits were excavated on land off Navigation Road, York. Subsequent to this an archaeological evaluation was commissioned to further explore deposits located during the primary phase of investigation.
In the first phase of the site investigation, the earliest deposits overlying the natural were brown clay silts up to 5.4m below the present ground level identified in Window Samples 3 and 4. These may represent early soil horizons or flood events, perhaps from the Roman period. Overlying these was an extensive deposit of humic material between 3.6m and 5m below present ground level. This deposit may either represent organic material decaying in a marshy area or semi-silted channel on the edge of the medieval King's Fish Pool, or a phase of dumping of organic material into the Pool. A layer of clay silt up to 1m thick usually sealed this, probably representing silting in the King's Fish Pool. This was overlain by extensive deposits of material used presumably to reclaim land from the King's Fish Pool and to raise the ground level sealed these deposits. - Type
- Evaluation
- Date
- 29 September 2003 – 1 October 2003
- 15 December 2003 – 16 January 2004
- Creator
- York Archaeological Trust
- Contributor
- G. Dean (Fieldwork)
- D. Evans (Fieldwork)
- Spatial Coverage
- Navigation Road, York
- SE60905167
- Period
- Medieval
- Post-medieval
- Undated
Position: 9857 (31 views)