Monument record 600/0/15 - Possible Medieval Metalled Trackway

{1} A surface of 'road' metalling or similar hardstanding at a depth of c.1m below modern bank on Adstone Road.

{2} Trial trenching in the roadside verge by Canons Ashby House uncovered remains of a metalled surface which may relate to a former track within the deserted medieval settlement.

{3} Trench 6 revealed part of a metalled surface, perhaps representing a former trackway. The metalling was of large water-worn cobbles, worn blocks of ironstone and flint nodules set onto the natural subsoil. On top of it lay an ox or horse shoe, part of a dog skeleton, flint flakes and a sherd of medieval pottery. Further medieval pottery cam from the pipe trench together with fragments of animal bone.

<1> Soden, I., 1993, SMR report form, (unchecked) (SMR Report Form). SNN53858.

<2> SODEN I, 1994, South Midlands Archaeology: CBA Group 9 Newsletter, p.22 (unchecked) (Notes). SNN40021.

<3> Soden I., 1993, An Archaeological Evaluation at Canons Ashby, Northamptonshire, p.4 (checked) (Report). SNN76695.

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