11 Lawn Road, Southampton, Hampshire - Archaeological Watching Brief Report

Wessex Archaeology

Wessex Archaeology was commissioned to carry out an archaeological watching brief at 11 Lawn Road, Southampton, Hampshire, centred on NGR 442761 113637.

In situ brickearth deposits were noted across the Site, overlying gravel. A single flint flake was the only pre-18th-century find. However, the watching brief located a buried land surface containing bricks in the north of what was probably a garden associated with Portswood House, built in 1776 and demolished in 1852. The ground surface was subsequently raised by up to 1.2 m in the north of the Site, probably when Lawn Road was laid out, the redeposited gravels sealing the buried soil. Features likely to have been associated with the later 19th century villa that occupied the site, which was demolished after a bomb strike in 1944, included two brick-lined wells. Features of 20th-century comprised a brick-built interceptor tank, a well and the concrete footings and wall of a cellar.