Monument record 1160/111/1 - Medieval/Post Medieval Extractive Pits, St Giles Terrace

A watching brief was maintained during the construction of an office block on the corner of St Giles' Terrace and The Ridings (north side). The whole plot was cellared, but beneath the cellar floors quarry pits were observed cutting the natural.

{1} Pits cut through ironstone natural; revealed beneath cellar floors where these had been lifted in the north-east corner of the construction trench.

{2} Large pits could be seen to cut the ironstone natural; resembled quarry pits discovered to south of Derngate (Site Number 7560005).

{3} Large pits cutting the ironstone natural below resembled the quarry pits discovered at Derngate.

<1> Williams J.H.; Shaw M.; Hardy S., 1978-1984, Northampton Development Corporation SMR Secondary Record Sheets, M449 (checked) (Catalogue). SNN108.

<2> Williams J.H.; Shaw M.; Hardy S., 1978-1984, Northampton Development Corporation SMR Secondary Record Sheets, M449 (checked) (Catalogue). SNN108.

<3> Dix B.(ed), 1985, Archaeology in Northamptonshire 1983-4, p.155 Northampton (Report). SNN100404.

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