Monument record 2600/0/36 - Medieval Building Fronting Hollow Way

{1} Trench D was excavated by the western boundary of the field. Immediately beyond this a broad ditch is likely to mark a former hollow way. Two parallel limestone walls 1m apart, and with a gravel surface between, were located. They were not exacavated, but sherds dating to no earlier than AD 1150 were recovered. To the east a pebble surface, possibly an internal floor, was revealed. The overlying material, possibly relating to occupation, contained 51 sherds of pottery dated to no earlier than AD 1350. Towards the centre of the trench a slot was cut into the pebble surface and a worn limestone block was found lying on the pebble surface. These may represent room divisions. By the eastern edge of the trench a limestone rubble layer may have been a further floor surface or the robber trench for a wall. 51 sherds of pottery dating no earlier than AD 1200 were recovered from this. At the north end of the trench a ditch was revealed from which a single sherd of pottery no earlier than AD 1150 was recovered.
The evidence suggests a medieval building fronting on to the hollow way to the west. Little excavation was undertaken due to the extensive survival of the medieval deposits. From the residual Saxon material recovered it is anticipated that settlement of this date lies beneath the medieval deposits.

<1> Northamptonshire Archaeology Unit, 1993, A605 Warmington Bypass and Tansor Improvements: Archaeological Evaluation 1991-1993, p.35-6 (checked) (Report). SNN70164.

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