DLR Lewisham Extension, Cutty Sark Station, Creek Road, SE10 TQ 3823 7774 MoLAS (M McKenzie) excavation Apr 1997 Mowlem Civil Engineering DXL97
Natural gravels and alluvial deposits in the S trench were cut by a cess or refuse pit of 12th-13th-c date. In another trench a N-S channel, cut into the alluvium, may have been part of an attempt to drain the area, possibly at a time when there was a growing demand for new development as medieval Greenwich expanded westwards. The channel could only be broadly dated by reference to one 15th - late 18th-c peg tile. Dumped material then raised the ground level across the whole site; Above it lay a garden-type soil which was succeeded by the cellars and cesspits of late 18th-early 19th-c tenement buildings. They appear to have been backfilled at the end of the 19th c.