ENN5784 - Towcester Meadow, 1990 (Trial trench)

{1} Two machine-dug evaluation trenches were opened in August 1990 across a sinuous low earthwork ditch and bank. A flat-bottomed ditch a single fragment of hand-made green glass found in the lower fill of the ditch dates from the period c 1650-90. It remains uncertain, however, whether these earthworks are of seventeenth-century origin (Civil War defensive?) or later. A series of earlier features included a ditch, a gully and two inhumations which, from accompanying late Iron Age and Roman Samian pottery may hint at the presence of a hitherto unlmown cemetery.