Bortwick Wharf and Paynes Wharf, Bortwick Street, Deptford,
SE8 TQ 3728 7808 PCA Ltd (Neil Hawkins) evaluation June 2006 CgMs
Conluting BPZ06
 Natural
gravel was sealed by subsoil overlain by topsoil with the exception
of the SE end of the site where no subsoil was encountered and an
undated feature was recorded cutting into the natural. On the S
side a 12th/14th c pit cut through the ploughsoil whilst on the
rest of the site pitting dating from the 15th to 17th c was revealed
along with a heavily truncated early-mid 17th c stone wall. A complex
of 18th c buildings and a cobble road, part of the wharf buildings
which occupied the site c. 1700-1860, and a possibly in situ mooring
block, demarking the position of the river frontage in the 19th
c before the construction of Paynes Wharf in 1860, were also revealed.
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