Site Event/Activity record ENT3736 - Watching brief on pipe supports at Rampton by TPAT

Location

Location
Grid reference SK 82000 78760 (point)
Map sheet SK87NW
District Bassetlaw
Civil Parish Rampton, Bassetlaw

Technique(s)

Organisation

Trent and Peak Archaeological Trust

Date

Apr - Jun 1996

Map

Description

A watching brief on the machine excavation of a series of pits dug to carry supporting anchor blocks for two slurry pipelines. Pipeline A (N-S) called for the machine excavation of six pits for anchor blocks with an additional two larger pits at either end of the pipeline. The six pits measured 2.2 x 1.6m … dug to a depth of 0.3m and cleaned manually by shovel. Pipeline B (W-E) necessitated the machine excavation of ten pits, dug to a depth of 0.6m, these pits measured 0.5 x 1.5m. (1) Grid ref for N end of Pipeline A. See E9337 - E9342 for further investigations at the quarry.

Sources/Archives (1)

  • <1> Unpublished document: TPAT. Aug 1996. Report on the Archaeological Watching Brief on the Line of Two Pipelines Across the Late Iron - Age and Romano British Site at Rampton, Nottinghamshire March - June 1966 [sic, 1996]. pp 5, 6.

Related Monuments/Buildings (1)

  • Romano-British pottery from pipeline, Rampton (Element)

Record last edited

Apr 29 2015 11:36AM

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