Event/Activity EPM144 - Carlisle Road, Fratton 1982

An excavation was carried out by Portsmouth Museum Service at a site in Carlisle Road, formerly the back garden of no. 78, in 1982. An area measuring 4m x 4.5m was investigated. The work revealed 18th-19th century plough furrows. Medieval pottery and Bronze Age flints were also recovered. The work was part of a series of excavations that took place during land clearance in Fratton in 1982, ahead of the construction of a new north-south road. See records EMP23 and EMP143-146. Further excavations were carried out in the area in 1983, see records EMP147-152. No evidence of medieval structures was revealed, but the presence of medieval pottery at a number of sites suggests there was a settlement near by.