Site Event/Activity record ECH6116 - Dee Point Primary School Rapid Cultural Heritage Desk-based Assessment

Golder Associates (UK) Ltd was contracted by Morgan Sindall plc to prepare a rapid cultural heritage desk-based assessment in support of a planning application for the proposed redevelopment of Dee Point Primary School. The spatial scope of this assessment comprises all the land required for development together with a buffer of 500m around the site. The available archaeological and heritage datasets indicate that there are few recorded archaeological sites in the area, similarly there is a lack of designated assets around the site. There is one non-designated archaeological asset recorded within the site boundary - the site was used as a military training camp during World War II, with the specific location of the site occupied by a rifle range, assault course and practice trenches. It is possible that some evidence of these activities may be present in undisturbed areas of the site which are to be redeveloped. Additionally a possible Roman camp, identified from aerial photography in the 1980s, is documented 127m to the south of the site, although this was rejected as a Roman camp in 1994 by the RCHME Roman Camps in England Project. The significance of this rectangular enclosure remains unclear. The report recommends further desk-based archaeological assessment to be undertaken with respect to the WWII camp and also the rectangular enclosure. The results of this work should inform the potential requirement for further archaeological evaluation work prior to redevelopment of the site. (1)