SNN105600 - Land Between 13 and 13a Magpie Lane, Brackley, Northamptonshire: Archaeological Watching Brief

The Oxfordshire Archaeological Unit carried out a watching brief, following on from an evaluation (Hardy OAU 1994), on terracing for building and carparking at Magpie Lane, Brackley on behalf of P & M Construction Ltd. The evaluation had identified property boundaries which were interpreted as medieval. The watching brief identified four elements to the deposits. A medieval pit, identified in the evaluation, was clarified in plan and section as a shallow scoop filled with medieval material. The scoop was overlain by a post-medieval stone garden path which was seen in two places on the site. A modern garden wall had been pushed over onto this path and garden spoil. The site had been prepared for carparking with imported material which had been dumped across the site. A concrete drive ran up the west of the site.