SNN102143 - Earthwork and metal detecting surveys at land adjacent to Spring Croft, Church Street, Sibbertoft, N

Following an application for outline planning permission for residential development on 5.4ha of pasture land adjacent to Spring Croft, Church Street, Sibbertoft, Northamptonshire Archaeology were commissioned to undertake earthwork and metal detecting surveys of the site. Prominent earthworks on the western part of the site comprise a former spring feed pond and a more recently constructed spring head. A similar hollow to the east may also have been a former spring feed pond with possible feeder channels to the north and north-east and outflow channels to the south-west. At least some of the former water flow may have been redirected to the brick-lined well on the northern margin of the former pond. This is now capped and disused. Raised platforms on the southern part of the site may possibly be former house platforms but it is also possible they might be related to the springs. The metal detecting revealed a pattern of casual discard and loss of larger ferrous objects of post-medieval date