EDO5515 - Milborne St Andrew Flood Management Scheme, Milborne St Andrew, Site 1 Allotment By-pass; observations and recording 2001

Observations and recording undertaken during the re-routing of the Milborne Brook in two places to the north and south of Manor Farm. The “Allotment Bypass” involved the removal of a dog-leg in the brook by constructing a new curved channel measuring 35m long, 5m wide and 1m deep, dug by machine. At the eastern end of the new channel some 19th-century finds were located, though no significant archaeology resulted from this works. The second location named the “Manor Farm Bypass” measured 65m long, 5m wide and 0.75m deep and was again machine excavated. The remains of two heavily robbed walls were exposed. At the north eastern end a brick wall running north-south, parallel to the watercourse. The second, a wall footing aligned east-west was exposed. These consisted of large nodular flints. No finds were retained from the works and the observations revealed no significant archaeology.