SNN102121 - Final Report on An Archaeological Evaluation of 23 Church Street, Warmington, Northamptonshire

The trial trench evaluation and watching brief have shown that nineteenth and twentieth century activities, particularly the 1950 site clearance and subsequent gardening activities have almost entirely destroyed the evidence of the early post-medieval occupation and of any earlier medieval settlement. Evidence was identified of a two phase northern boundary, possibly dating to as early as the twelfth or even eleventh centuries. A small number of artefacts recovered from this boundary, from the surviving subsoil and later features do suggest some activity on or near the site from the late Saxon period onwards, though given the small size and numbers of such finds thay could all be explained by agricultural activities such as manuring. Slight traces of the seventeenth century building which occupied the site were identified (as well as coin hoard of this date). Several fragmentary walls were discovered which could be of medieval date, but might be significantly later.