Event/Activity EPM148 - Froddington Road/Abingdon Road, Fratton 1983

Portsmouth Museum Service excavated three trial trenches (numbered 6-8) in former gardens belonging to terraced housing (demolished) in Froddington/Abingdon Roads in 1983. The removal of 30cms of topsoil revealed evidence of mechanical cultivation. The work was part of a series of excavations carried out in Fratton in May 1983, in an area bounded by Victoria Road North and Somers Road on the east and west side, and the railway line and Abingdon Road to the north and south. The aims of the excavations were to locate and examine evidence of earlier occupation, and observe the nature and distribution of superficial deposits, such as plough soil and brick-earth. The excavations were undertaken prior to the construction of a new north-south road through Fratton. See records EMP147-152. Additional excavations were carried out in 1982, and July and October 1983.