ENN108214 - Thrupp Grounds Farm 2015 (Watching brief)

With the permission of Morgan Sindall and Western Power. the community based archaeological charity CLASP undertook a watching brief on the excavation of a power cable trench on the south side of the B4036, Daventry to Long Buckby road, near Thrupp Farm Northamptonshire. Several ditch profiles of unknown date and a probable mid- Victorian rubbish pit were observed along the general alignment of the cable trench. However archaeological fieldwork concentrated on an exploratory rescue excavation of a 35 m section of the cable trench adjacent to Thrupp Farm. The trench contained a series of features that included two associated substantial masonry walls (one of which was apsidal and would have formed part of a large building), a hearth from another structure and a further sizeable stone wall associated with the metalled floor foundation surface of a third building. The limited number of finds suggest the remains are late medieval and likely to be associated with the deserted medieval village of Thrupp. They should probably be interpreted as representing the potential remains of late 15th century medieval tenements destroyed by enclosure in 1489 and an associated abandoned chapel. Information from OASIS Online Form.