ENN103213 - Land at Broad Street/St Andrews Street, Northampton, 2003 (Trial trench)

{1} Seven trial trenches were excavated, revealing considerable post-medieval levelling / terracing of the sloping site. The latter is attested by the presence of a comparable sequence of dumped deposits in all the trenches. A backfilled cellar of probable late post-medieval date was recorded in Trench 3. A single small undated pit was recorded in Trench 4. Trenches 1, 2, 5 and 6 contained former 'garden soil' overlying the natural clay and Northampton Sand deposits. Finds from this deposit were late post-medieval in date, and it was sealed by layers containing modern material. It is likely that this deposit represents a late post-medieval land surface, prior to subsequent modern levelling / terracing. No archaeological finds or features were uncovered.