Monument record 7320 - Post Medieval Agricultural Activity

Trial trench excavation identified a small number of post-medieval features including a possible trackway and a field drain.

{1} Trial trench excavation identified a pair of shallow gullies aligned roughly east-west. Post medieval pottery and fragments of clay pipe stem were present in their fills. The features were characteristic of wheel ruts perhaps relating to the route of a former farm trackway.

In another trench was a linear gully aligned north-south which appeared to be part of a drainage system contemporary with gravel-filled land drains the dissected the trench towards its northern end. A sherd of later post-medieval pottery, a fragment of clay pipe stem and a copper-alloy clasp were found in its backfill.

<1> Mason P., 2007, Geophysical Survey And Archaeological Trial Excavation on Land off Huntingdon Road, Thrapston, Northamptonshire, p.5-6 (checked) (Report). SNN106486.

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