SNN101387 - Watching Brief On Test Pits At Hall Hill, Brigstock, Northamptonshire

A watching brief on two test pits at Hall Hill, Brigstock, Northamptonshire showed that an introduced topsoil and subsoil overlay natural limestone. The ground had previously been graded in 1976, prior to the construction of the current house, removing all the original soil profile up to a thickness of 1.5m over the garden area, so that only very deep features would have survived cutting into the bedrock. A single feature observed in Test Pit 1 was not fully excavated, but is thought to be an infilled well, the second such feature within the plot. Several sherds of medieval and Roman pottery were found within the subsoil, and a prehistoric flint from the topsoil, but since the soils were introduced, it is unlikely that these finds have any bearing on the archaeology of the site.