Excavation for road revealed a soft, grey black clayey silt up to 0.6m thick. Its S edge showed an angled cut 60 degrees to horizontal. Its N edge was angled much more shallowly and marked by a 6-10cm thick layer of coal fragments. Both edges ran parallel, approximately 30m apart. This appears to be the remains of a canal basin that was buried by the construction of the railway embankment. The coal at the N end suggests that it served a colliery for a time. Although the E and W edges of this basin were not located, a possible entrance from the canal was. (1)
See M18347 for timber bridge, which ran across this feature.

<1> TPAT, Apr 1996, A Watching Brief on the Awsworth and Cossal Bypass Nottinghamshire, 1995, pp 10-11 (Unpublished document). SNT2228.