ENN6865 - 1 Church Cottages, 1988 (Watching brief)

{2} In August 1988 drive-widening to a cottage adjacent to the churchyard exposed human skeletal remains within a bank set against the outside of the churchyard wall. The exposed remains were removed by the police and passed to the Archaeology Unit. An inspection of the site suggested that the burial may have run back under the churchyard wall, possibly as a result of churchyard shrinkage when the cottages were built. The only dating evidence was provided by nineteenth- and early, twentieth- century pottery located in layers sealing the burial which could be considerably older.