Site Event/Activity record ECC2603 - An archaeological watching brief at Lexden Wood Golf Club (Westhouse Farm), Colchester, 2002

Location

Location Lexden Wood Golf Club (Westhouse Farm), Colchester
Grid reference Centred TL 97358 26116 (32m by 5m)
Map sheet TL92NE
County ESSEX
Non Parish Area COLCHESTER, COLCHESTER, ESSEX

Technique(s)

Organisation

Colchester Archaeological Trust Ltd

Date

March 2002

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Description

An archaeological watching brief was carried out on the building of an extension (47 x 5m in area) to the driving range at Lexden Wood Golf Club (Westhouse Farm), Colchester (CBC planning application F/COL/01/0317). An intensive watching brief was maintained during the digging out of the sixteen pad foundations (nos 1-16) for the extension. These were each dug by mini-digger with a toothless ditching bucket to a length of 1.4m and width of 750mm. In all of the sixteen pad foundations, the top 350mm consisted of turf and mid brown silty loam topsoil. Below this was a subsoil of reddish brown silt with occasional brick flecks. One piece of probable daub (11g) was found from this layer in pad foundation no 6. No trace of the enclosure first identified through aerial photographs was observed. <1>

Sources/Archives (1)

  • <1> Watching Brief Report: Orr, Kate (CAT). 2002. An archaeological watching brief on an extension to the driving range at Lexden Wood Golf Club (Westhouse Farm), Colchester. CAT Report 182.

Related Monuments/Buildings (0)

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Oct 14 2015 10:36AM

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