Monument record 2600/0/31 - Medieval/Post Medieval Ditch (Morphed Aerial Archaeology Interpretation)

Earthwork: Good quality photography

{2} Trench F was cut to examine a possible ditch or hollow way which could be seen as an earthwork and corresponds with an enclosure boundary on the 1621 map of Warmington. At its north end a shallow posthole was revealed, which contained late Saxon pottery. Where the trench crossed the earthwork a drain and a series of boundary ditches wrere revealed. The latest in a series of features running on the same line was a stone-lined drain. This cut an earlier round-bottomed ditch, which in turn cut an earlier V-shaped ditch. Pottery from all three features included a large number of C16th to C18th sherds. A possible earlier boundary ditch was not excavated.
The pottery assemblage as a whole contained sherds of early middle Saxon date and late Saxon pottery, suggesting occupation of these periods nearby.

<1> Northamptonshire SMR Collection of Aerial Photographs, Used with NMR & CUCAP collections (Photographs). SNN104822.

<2> Northamptonshire Archaeology Unit, 1993, A605 Warmington Bypass and Tansor Improvements: Archaeological Evaluation 1991-1993, p.37-8 (checked) (Report). SNN70164.

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Jun 18 2008 5:34PM