Monument record 4156/1/16 - C19th Path & Other Garden-Related Features

{1} Trench 3: Make-up layers for the garden comprised yellow-brown or orange-brown sandy clays with fragments of clinker, at least 0.41m thick. These probably formed a terrace for the walled garden as part of its construction in the 1840s. The layers produced flower pot, bottle glass and window glass as well as sherds of C19th & early C20th earthenware.
A path 1.4m wide was exposed cutting into the upper makeup layer. It was filled with a red gravel and clinker bedding layer, overlain by a coarse gravelled surface. The path is shown on the 1886 OS map, leading to a large garden structure in the northern part of the garden.
Adjacent to the path was a single-coursed mortared brick wall which may have stood slightly higher to form a path edging as there was mortar still adhering to the exposed upper surface.
All the features were overlain by a layer of dark clayey loam with a high clinker content, possibly indicating levelling up for a surface to provide the current access next to the lime avenue.
No archaeological features were identified within Trench 4.

<1> Simmonds C., 2012, Archaeological Evaluation at Rockingham Castle, Northamptonshire March 2012, p.8-9; https://doi.org/10.5284/1104257 (Report). SNN109188.

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