Land Adjacent To Crewe Green Link Road, Cheshire: Archaeological Evaluation

The evaluation required the excavation of three 50m by 2m trenches, centred on anomalies identified during the initial geophysical survey. The majority of the anomalies were shown to correlate with field boundaries relating to the post-medieval field system, although evidence of deep hill-wash in Trench 1 is suggestive of a landscape feature such as an infilled local quarry or similar. The evaluation results indicate that the majority of the proposed development area has little surviving in the way of archaeological deposits or features other than that relating to post-medieval agricultural practices. The potential for the recovery of significant archaeological deposits appears to be low, and therefore the construction of a commercial development on the site will only have a limited or negligible impact on any sub-surface archaeological resource.