SNN100498 - Archaeological Watching Brief On Land At Lilford Lodge Farm, Oundle, Northamptonshire, 2000

An archaeological watching brief was carried out on land at Lilford Lodge Farm, Oundle, Northamptonshire between September 1998 and February 1999 during excavation for the construction of fish ponds. The watching brief found that recent ploughing had heavily truncated possible archaeological features which cut into alluvium and limestone. Only very sparse activity was found including an area of burning containing some charcoal, bone fragments and a sherd of late Neolithic pottery as well as an undated ditch. Three small stone spreads of limestone were probably of natural origin brought in with the regular silting of the floodplain. The alluvium, 0.7m thick, was directly below the recent ploughing and it overlay the first terrace river gravels in the Nene Valley. The alluvium contained a range of discarded artifacts dating to the Neolithic, Bronze Age, early middle Saxcon and th Middle Ages which is suggestive of regular flooding through the area over the last 5000 years.