Trial trenching by Archaeology South-East at Christy and Chantry House, Church Lane, Bocking, 2014 - EEX63379

NRHE data transfer: The site is located on the northeast side of Deanery Hill, between the Old Deanery and the River Pant, at the lower end of Church Street. The site was formerly occupied by two large industrial buildings, Christy House and Chantry House, and a smaller, residential property, The Lodge, all of which have now been demolished. To the south of these is a large car-parking area, terraced into the side of Deanery Hill. Four trial trenches and three geoarchaeological test pits were excavated across the site in the first instance. All of the trial trenches in the area of the former buildings revealed the presence of extensive modern made ground to depths varying between 0.6 and 1.5m, while a trench in the area of former car parking showed that this part of the site had been reduced in level down to natural clay. No archaeological features or finds were noted in any of the trenches. Geoarchaeological test pits confirmed the disturbed nature of the site and demonstrated a lack of material with palaeoenvironmental potential. There was also no sign of a suggested glacial lake suggested to underlie the site, with any overlying Holocene alluvial deposits have been removed by the later development of the site.