Evaluation at Damfield Lane, Maghull

The excavation of 6 evaluation trenches. It demonstrated that the site was characterised as a typical post-medieval agricultural landscape with a plough soil above natural clay, drained with ceramic land drains. The site was later affected, and in areas partially truncated, by 21st century activity associated with its use as a storage area for construction materials. A single cut feature represented a boundary ditch visible on the 1849 mapping. The boundary is no longer depicted on later mapping suggesting that it was an earlier, possibly 17th or 18th century boundary, that was filled in and laid with a ceramic drainpipe during the mid-19th century. The evaluation demonstrated that no features, structures or deposits of archaeological significance survive within the site, and that the planning condition should be discharged on submission of this report with no further archaeological investigation necessary.