Evaluation Excavation at Enfield Playing Fields, Enfield, September 2025

Machine excavation of two evaluation trenches to establish archaeological potential of flood alleviation works site " Evaluation trenches in advance of a flood alleviation scheme c. 180 m west of the probable course of Ermine Street recorded iron stained gravel and silts filling paleochannels cut into the brickearth natural. Modern, mainly land drainage, features were also cut into the natural, though the cuts were not isolatable where they passed through an overlaying subsoil. There was no evidence for any pre-modern activity.