Roughlee Pumping Station, Lancashire. Archaeological Desk-Based Assessment and Walkover Survey.

Following a request by United Utilities Ltd, Oxford Archaeology North (OA North) undertook a desk-based assessment and field walkover survey in August 2003, of the proposed route of a pumping station and sewer situated between Roughlee and Blacko, Lancashire (SD 8466740769 to SD 8600941248). The desk-based assessment covered a 500m wide corridor of land centred on the proposed route and involved a study of primary and secondary records held within the Lancashire Sites and Monuments Record and the Lancashire County Record Office. This was intended not only to identify potential archaeological sites recorded in early documents and on maps, but covered a 100m wide corridor of land and was intended to identify any surface features of potential archaeological interest not identified in the desk-based assessment and to note the condition of those already known sites.