AOC Archaeology Group was commissioned by Greatline Developments Ltd to undertake an archaeological watching brief to fulfil a condition of the planning consent for a proposed car storage site at Kiln Lane, Stallingborough, North East Lincolnshire. The proposed development site was situated on the south-east side of Kiln Lane, Stallingborough, North East Lincolnshire and comprised approximately 51 hectares, including arable farm land to the south-east, and existing external vehicle storage areas to the north-west. The watching brief consisted of the archaeological monitoring of drainage and lighting installation ground works, including the excavation of twelve rectangular trenches for concrete headwalls and associated interceptor tanks (A-L), six square trenches for the tower bases for the lighting columns, six linear duct trenches for electricity cables, six linear trenches for the drainage and one linear trench for a water pipe. The water pipeline covered Zones 2 and 5, whereas the remainder covered all four zones. A photographic record was produced of each trench, and any archaeological deposits/features encountered were excavated and recorded. A common sequence of stabilised topsoil 0.40m to 0.50m thick and undisturbed topsoil 0.50m thick was observed directly overlying the natural geology. Only two archaeological features were observed across the whole site, comprising parallel linear ditches aligned north-west to south-east. A single piece of animal was also retrieved, but secure dating for this could not be achieved at this stage. It is suggested that these ditches may relate to an earlier phase of drainage, based on the composition of their fills.
Walker et al. (Thu,) studied this question.