Archaeological excavation : Skelhorne Street Phase 2, Liverpool

In April 2017, Salford Archaeology was commissioned by Nexus-Heritage to carry out anarchaeological excavation of a well and potential workers housing at Skelhorne Street andBolton Street, Liverpool (centred on NGR 335075 390430). The excavation of the wellwas carried out on the 30th and 31st of March 2017, following an initial archaeologicalevaluation Salford Archaeology in January 2017.During the evaluation the presence of ACMs within upper levelling layers meant that thenorthern end of the site could not be adequately evaluated. Following remediation of thisarea a trench was excavated across it by Nexus-Heritage during April 2017.The well was machine stripped to its upper level after which it was hand excavated to adepth of c. 1.5m. Following this a 5m square box was excavated 1.5m into the bedrockallowing safe access to hand excavate a further 1.5m of the well.The well was found to be 0.98m in diameter and 7m deep. Its tool marks were consistentwith a 19th century feature, serving housing that was built in the early 19th century andappears on the 1848 OS mapping. The fill suggested that it was infilled during the early20th century when the housing was demolished. The northern trench revealed that theground reduction observed across the southern half of the site during the evaluationcontinued across the northern part of the site and no features or structures of archaeologicalsignificance remained within the area.The results obtained during the excavations suggested that no further investigation wasmerited