Phase 3 Archaeological Watching Brief at Stockley Airport Junction / Northern Viaduct Report

In February 2013, Oxford Archaeology (OA) carried out an archaeological watching brief at the Stockley Airport Junction section of the Crossrail scheme, situated on land to the north of the railway line encompassing HG Timbers and All Point Packaging. The work, which comprised a general watching brief during excavations for the pile caps of the Northern Viaduct, follows two previous phases of monitoring of the Stockley Airport Junction works. No archaeological remains, with the exception of an old railway line, were observed during the work. The natural geology, underlying modern concrete and made ground, consisted of Langley Silts (brickearth) and underlying River Terrace Gravel was observed in the trenches excavated in the pile cape locations and elsewhere.