Watching brief by ECC Field Archaeolgy Unit at the car park construction site, London Southend Airport, Rochford, 2010 - EEX56274

Monitoring and recording was carried-out during the construction of a car park immediately west of the Southend Victoria to London Liverpool Street railway line at Southend Airport. This was effectively a continuation of initial monitoring works undertaken in 2006, under the same site code (see EEX54712). Of the total car park area of approximately 1.08ha, the southern third was judged to have been disturbed by previous airfield structures and their clearance and was not monitored. At the northern end, the excavation of a rainwater attenuation tank of approximately 1000sq m area was observed. The remainder of the car park site was judged not to be significantly impacted upon by construction works due to the presence of an approximately 0.7m depth of overburden and was not monitored.