Reports and Project Database from an Archaeological Watching Brief at 210 Burgess Road, Southampton, SOU 1763, 2017
Southampton City Council Archaeology Unit, 2021. https://doi.org/10.5284/1090353. How to cite using this DOI
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- DOI:https://doi.org/10.5284/1090353
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Introduction
The Archaeology Unit of Southampton City Council carried out a watching brief on groundworks associated with the erection of a two-storey rear extension at 210 Burgess Road, Southampton.
The site was on London Clay with traces of River Terrace deposits, close to the head of a small stream that fed into the river Itchen. The earliest archaeological deposit was a layer of ploughsoil/garden soil which probably marks cultivation of a strip of land to the south of Burgess Road for many centuries. The south edge of the soil deposit was marked by a sizeable ditch. The feature was running in an east-west direction and probably corresponds to the south boundary of the plot as recorded on the 1846 Royal Engineers’ map of Southampton. Houses are shown in the area from 1791 onwards, and a foundation consisting of a few courses of brickwork may have related to one of those structures.
