Watching Brief at Manor Cross House, Ubley, Bath and North-East Somerset

Avon Archaeology Limited were retained to undertake an archaeological monitoring project (watching brief), during groundworks related to the construction of a new extension on the property at Manor Cross House, Ubley, Bath and North-East Somerset. The local authority had required the monitoring project as a condition of planning consent, mainly because the site of the modern house contains a Scheduled Monument, namely the remains of a former medieval manor house, which includes standing walls. The groundworks themselves consisted essentially of the excavation of footing trenches for the new extension. By far the majority of the trenching was monitored, but in view of the entirely negative result, the fieldwork project was terminated with some short lengths of trenching still to excavate. This being so, no further mitigation on this site, on any level, was necessary. Archaeologically negative. No further work advised.