Guildford Sewage Treatment Works (STW) Relocation - Outfall Pipeline Palaeolithic Archaeological and Georcheological Evaluation ...

Wessex Archaeology was commissioned to undertake an archaeological and geoarchaeological borehole survey of Quaternary deposits within the footprint of the route of the outfall pipeline to the River Wey associated with a proposed new sewage treatment works located at Slyfield, Guildford, Surrey This demonstrated the Quaternary deposits are present within the proposed route. The deposits consist of a complex sequence of higher and lower energy alluvial deposits, likely reflecting climatic, environmental and landscape change from the later Pleistocene through the Holocene. The evaluation recorded a complex sequence of higher and lower energy alluvial deposits associated with the River Wey, likely reflecting climatic, environmental and landscape change from the later Pleistocene and through the Holocene. These sequences can be tentatively correlated to deposits identified during previous phases of evaluation carried out in advance of the proposed sewage treatment works (WA 2021a; 2021b). The deposits present ...