Stockton and Darlington Railway, Soho Works, Shildon, County Durham: Report on Geophysical Surveys, June 2021
Author(s): Neil Linford, Andy Payne
Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR), fluxgate gradiometer and earth resistance surveys were conducted over the former Stockton and Darlington Railway Soho Works at Shildon, County Durham to assist with the Historic Architectural Assessment of the Soho Cottages. The aim of the survey was to investigate the below ground survival of Timothy Hackworth’s Soho Works, which developed through the 1830s and 1840s, in the area adjacent to the standing Soho Cottages. GPR survey (0.33ha) and fluxgate magnetometer survey (0.39ha) was conducted over the majority of the accessible area, with additional earth resistance (0.24ha) coverage in the vicinity of the former Soho Works buildings. While anomalies were detected by all three techniques it proved difficult to fully interpret these against the footprint of the former buildings and railway infrastructure recorded on the historic Ordnance Survey mapping. This appears to be largely due to the limited access to the location of the former buildings resulting from the demolition and remodelling of the surrounding landscape.
- Report Number:
- 41/2021
- Series:
- Research Report
- Pages:
- 9
- Keywords:
- Earth Resistance Fluxgate Gradiometer Ground Penetrating Radar
