Land to the rear of 56 High Street, Southampton - Archaeological Watching Brief Report

Wessex Archaeology

Wessex Archaeology was commissioned to undertake an archaeological watching brief on a land at the rear of 56 High Street, Southampton, SO14 2NS, centred on NGR 442086 111218.

The work monitored the excavation of one cable percussion borehole to a depth of 20 m and five window sample boreholes to a depth of 4 m.

The small assemblage of finds does not provide much evidence to date the darker soils, although contexts (204), (502) and (1005) have been tentatively dated to the post medieval/medieval periods. No evidence of Late Saxon settlement was recorded, although it is possible the darker clay and silt soils could be a continuation of the ditch recorded in previous work there is no way of differentiating them from later contexts.