Event/Activity EPM42 - New Radar Mast, Fort Cumberland, Fort Cumberland Road, Eastney

Watching brief undertaken by Wessex Archaeology at the Southern Water Compound, Fort Cumberland in 2006. The work was undertaken during the installation of a marine radar mast with equipment cabinet and high security fencing. Two trenches were excavated using a toothless ditching bucket. Trench 1 was 5.5m square and up to 2.7m deep (mast foundation). Trench 2 was dug for the electricity supply from the nearby Southern Water control building to the new mast, and measured 30m long, 0.4m wide and up to 0.7m deep. The watching brief recorded a deposit thought to be part of the glacis of Fort Cumberland, which had been cut by a ditch dating to the 18th century or later. The only finds recovered were brick fragments, a complete 18th century brick, a piece of animal bone, and fragments of ceramic building material. Portsmouth Museum Accession No: 2006/1587