Event/Activity EPM49 - Farlington Reservoir Evaluation

An evaluation was undertaken by Portsmouth Museums Service at Farlington Reservoir in 1991, on the site where the covered reservoir at the eastern end now stands. There is very little information in the site archive, which consists of hand written notes, hand drawn sections and maps. The archive states that photographs were taken and sections drawn, but 'weather appalling so results may be mediocre'. Presumably the evaluation was undertaken in advance of the building of this section of the reservoir. Notes scribbled on a sheet of paper recorded the following information (some of the writing was Illegible): The site was overlain by ?deposited chalk. Below this boulder clay/decomposed chalk mix - solifluxion. Plough marks at eastern end of site, otherwise no noticeable features. One large feature was excavated on the extreme west of the site, which contained a fill of large flints underlain by a burnt layer. The fill was largely homogenous soil with few associated ? A single sherd of late Iron Age/Romano-British pottery was recovered, and charcoal samples were taken for C14 dating. Two 2m adjacents were cut along the southern limit of the site, and revealed the possible remains of half ploughed out barrows, but there were few other features.