Monument record 1186 - Possible post medieval to modern quarrying and agricultural activity, north of Earls Barton Road

Archaeological excavation identified a number of modern features, including quarrying and a linear gully. The gully and an adjacent spread of material probably related to an enclosure, and associated pond/structure, present on maps from the 1880s to the 1950s.

{2} Archaeological mitigation identified a number of moren features. The pits are probably 19th/ 20th century limestone quarry pits. If this is the case then an adjacent spread of subsoil/ colluvium may be a spread of material to level this area of quarrying. There was a large irregularly shaped spread of silty clay containing 19th/ 20th century pottery. It was on average 0.05-0.15m thick but did thicken to 0.26m in the area of the trial trench.
The spread is in approx the right place to be related to the pond/ structure on the 1938-1952 and 1958

Gully is in the right position, and alignment, to be related to the enclosure depicted on maps from 1880-1952. The Roman coin found in the trial trench evaluation is therefore a residual find deposited within this larger spread of modern material.

<1> Ladocha, J., 2013, Archaeological Trial Trench Evaluation on Land at Earls Barton Road, Great Doddington, Northamptonshire August 2013, p.5-9 (checked) (Report). SNN109151.

<2> Ladocha, J., 2013, Archaeological Mitigation Works on Land at Earls Barton Road, Great Doddington, Northamptonshire September 2013, p.7, 9 (checked) (Report). SNN109325.

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