ENN108968 - Land north of Niort Way, Wellingborough, 2015 (Trial trench)

{1} Forty-six trenches were excavated. The evaluation recorded a small number of ditches and a postmedieval/ modern wall. One of the ditches yielded two fragments of post-medieval tile, but the remainder were undated artefactually. Two parallel ditches were in the approximate location of a former field boundary depicted on late 19th-century mapping. The evaluation demonstrated that the remainder of the sampled geophysical anomalies did not correspond to below-ground archaeological features, having been caused either by natural clay patches/bands in the geological substrate, post-medieval/modern land drains or near-surface variations in ground composition. The evaluation found no evidence that medieval Great Harrowden extended southwards into the evaluation site. The presence of ridge and furrow throughout the site indicates that the site formed part of the open fields surrounding the medieval settlement. Information from OASIS Online Form. Site code: NWW15