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Thesaurus Term/Concept: GEOTECHNICAL TEST PIT

Identifier 146353
Class EVENT TYPE
Status Preferred
Index? Yes
Scope Note Test pits dug by geotechnical engineers or engineering geologists to obtain information on the physical properties of soil, sediments and bedrock around a site to design earthworks and foundations for proposed structures.

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Context Record
Event Type EEX54926 Archaeological Monitoring of geotechnical Trial pits at Harlow Mill, Essex (Non-Archaeological Intervention)
Event Type EEX54912 Cobbins Brook / Brook Meadow Wood, Upshire, Essex (Field Survey)
Event Type EEX56358 Desk-based assessment and geotechnical survey by CgMs Ltd on Land at Walford Close, Harlow, 2005 (Field Survey)
Event Type EEX54692 Geotechnical boreholes and testpits- Phase 4 (Non-Archaeological Intervention)
Event Type EEX54690 Geotechnical test-pits at Colchester Garrison (Non-Archaeological Intervention)
Event Type EEX54691 Geotechnical test-pits at Colchester Garrison Stage 2 (Non-Archaeological Intervention)
Event Type EEX55897 Hanningfield WaterTreatment Works geo-technical investigations (Archaeological Intervention)
Event Type EEX54495 Palaeoenvironmental test pits, Rivenhall quarry (Non-Archaeological Intervention)
Event Type EEX62087 Watching brief by Archaeology South-East on land north of Maldon, Essex, 2016 (Archaeological Intervention)
Event Type EEX56267 Watching brief by Colchester Archaeological Trust at Reeds House, 40 London Road, Maldon, 2011 (Archaeological Intervention)
Event Type EEX56199 Watching brief by Essex County Council at 9-15 High Street, South Benfleet, Castle Point, 2008 (Non-Archaeological Intervention)
Event Type EEX64019 Watching brief by Museum of London Archaeology Servics at Phase 4 of the Channel Tunnel Rail Link, Dagenham-Thurrock 1997 (Non-Archaeological Intervention)
Event Type EEX59696 Watching brief by Pre-Construct Archaeology at Maldon Blackwater Trading Estate, The Causeway, Heybridge, 2015 (Archaeological Intervention)
Event Type EEX59688 Watching brief by RSK Environment at the proposed Bradwell B Nuclear Power Station site, 2018 (Archaeological Intervention)