Event/Activity EPM150 - Froddington Road/Carlisle Road, Fratton May 1983

Portsmouth Museum Service excavated a trial trench (numbered 12) in an area formerly occupied by gardens belonging to terraced housing in Froddington Road and Carlisle Road in 1983. The site was bounded by Morpeth Road and Northumberland Road on its east and west side. No archaeological finds or features were revealed, only an enormous quantity of modern rubbish. 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.