York Historic Environment Record

The work was undertaken for Abbeyfield Society (York) Ltd for two purposes related to conditions attached to planning application 17/01419/FULM; to monitor borehole starter pits in accordance with the planning condition for watching brief on all groundworks; to characterise the archaeological deposition at the site and inform the mitigation methodology for a strip, map and record. The uppermost metre of all hand-dug starter pits was recorded to characterise any archaeological deposition present and determine the depth of natural. The cable percussion boreholes which were subsequently carried out were not monitored. Three small trenches were excavated and recorded in locations intended to provide useful information about ground levels across the proposed development site.