Upper Car Park Service Trench, Hampton Court Palace

During February 2012, Oxford Archaeology carried out a watching brief for the excavation of a service trench in the Upper Car Park, Hampton Court Palace. The earliest deposit within the southern part of the trench was a garden soil that contained 19th century material and probably formed part of the kitchen gardens. To the north, sand and rubble was revealed that contained modern roofing fragments and pieces of chamfered stonework, and probably represented levelling for the existing car park.