Site Event/Activity record ECH6874 - Farndon Boathouse and Café, High Street, Farndon, Chester, Cheshire, CH3 6PU: Archaeological Watching Brief

** An updated report requested Nov 2020 (Fig.5 missing from contents list; no plate 20)** An archaeological watching brief was undertaken in 2020 during the groundworks associated with the erection of a replacement dwelling house at Farndon Boathouse and Café, High Street, Farndon, following the demolition of the existing café / dwelling building. The site was characterised as comprising two distinct areas during the watching brief; an upper part located on an area of raised ground to the south-east, and a lower part located on flat ground to the north-west. During the course of the watching brief no archaeological finds or features were uncovered – the reason for this was that the upper area appeared to have been previously stripped on to the bedrock. This was also true of the lower area which had been reduced onto the natural glacial sand-clay substrata, presumably when the former Boathouse structure was initially constructed. No evidence for any of the post-medieval structures depicted on historic maps of the site was found. (1)