Site Event/Activity record ECH5856 - Lion Salt Works, Electricity Cable Watching Brief, 2006

An electricity cable was excavated along the line of accommodation road between Ollershaw Lane and the electricity substation. It extended from the south western corner of Pan House 3, ran WNW to ESE adjacent to the corner of the north eastern corner of the Red Lion Inn, continued under the railway lines and ran east to the electricity sub station. The surviving records of the watching brief are poor and limited to some photographs reproduced in the Conservation Management Plan, and a brief summary description: ' A trench cut through from the accommodation road in 2006 revealed no structures. The trench was cut through made up ground of ash and cinders with some broken brick deposited over a clay ground surface. There were no finds. The trench provided access for a new power cable between the sub-station and Ollershaw Lane.' The photographs reveal the remains of the rail tracks, uncovered on a number of occasions that curve from the south-east to run east to west parallel to the entrance of Pan Houses 3 and 4. (1-3)