Monument record 249/0/34 - Site of post-medieval activity, Well House

Archaeological trial excavation identified walls, rubble spreads and a drain dating to the late 17th/18th centuries, interpreted as possible garden features. Notable finds included a single sherd of unabraded early-middle Saxon pottery and probable glass medicine bottles of the 18th/19th centuries. A significant amount of animal teeth and mandible fragments may indicate that the processing of animal carcasses was undertaken nearby

{1} Trial trench excavation was undertaken to the north of Well House during the construction of a house. Nothing was observed in the small southern trench, but in the northern trench there was a pair of possible walls, two rubble spreads, a possible drain and a possible posthole. Pottery associated with the features dated to the 17th-19th centuries, although a single residual sherd of early-middle Saxon pottery was also recovered.

<1> Thorpe. S, 2016, Land adjacent to the Well House, Banbury Lane, Culworth, Northamptonshire. Archive report: Archaeological evaluation by trial trenches (Report). SNN111426.

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