Between the salt water and the sea strand: Excavating the Hornsea Project One Cable Route in Lincolnshire

A 40km trench dug to accommodate cables linking an offshore windfarm to the National Grid sparked eight years of archaeological excavations along its route. With the results of Wessex Archaeology’s wide-ranging work now published in a new monograph, Ashley Tuck summarises key findings from the heavy clay marshes of northern Lincolnshire.

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Current Archaeology

April 3, 2024

Having carefully protected the exposed archaeological remains, we began to close up the site at East Field Road for the Christmas break at the end of 2016. We struggled through the mud of the marshland farmer’s field where the water had risen and fallen over the last few weeks. There, a former wetland hollow had silted up gradually from at least the Iron Age until finally being levelled, perhaps around the time of the demolition of the former RAF base at North Killingholme. We had been fighting the water with pumps and machines, but, although the landscape next to the Immingham oil refinery looked like it had been tamed, mere humans could do nothing to erase the seasonal swell of groundwa

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