Description

Wessex Archaeology was commissioned by Hanson Aggregates to undertake an archaeological watching brief in a backfilled former quarry off Shapters Way, Cattedown, Plymouth as works required to meet a planning condition, placed by Plymouth City Council, on planning consent for the construction of a concrete
batching plant with ancillary facilities, NGR 249500, 053600.
The Site lay 70m to the east of Worth’s Cattedown Bone Cave, a Scheduled Ancient Monument known to contain deposits, in the cave and in associated fissures, of the Devensian Glacial 110,000-12,000 BP) with human and faunal remains of Middle to Late Upper Palaeolithic date.