Excavation Gallery
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Featured Print
Keele cutting JLP01_08_059934
M6 Motorway, M6, Keele, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire. A view of the construction of the Birmingham to Preston Motorway (M6), showing a 110 Ruston Bucyrus diesel/electric excavator carrying out the excavation of a mixture of marl and sandstone in the Keele cutting.
In the album, the typed caption below the photograph reads Excavating a mixture of marl and sandstone in the Keele cutting. A 110 Ruston Bucyrus diesel/electric excavator. This machine weighs 153 tons and has a bucket capacity of 4 1/2 cubic yards and is capable of excavating up to 300 cubic yards per hour. Two 4" Halco Stenwick drills can be seen drilling shot holes for the provision of blasting charges to prepare the excavation for the 110 R.B. The Keele cutting extended from the Market Drayton Railway Line to Springpool Wood. Excavation of the site had to be roughly 25 feet in depth and structures to be built on this section of the motorway included three culverts, Structure 352, a cattle creep and Structure 354, a single underbridge at the A531
© Historic England Archive. John Laing Photographic Collection
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Darenth Court Villa AL2400_097_02
Darenth Court Roman Villa, Darenth, Kent. The dig director George Payne standing amongst the archaeological excavations 1894-1895. The Villa was large and had tessellated floors, baths, a swimming pool and walled gardens. The tile stacks would have supported a raised floor, with under-floor heating from hot air passing through the flue visible in the centre of the shot
© Historic England Archive
