SNN106457 - Archaeological Desk-Based Assessment of Land at 22 Rotton Row, Raunds, Northamptonshire April 2009

The rear of the property takes in SAM 11507 which comprises a block of land surrounded by areas of previous open area archaeological excavation. To the north lay Furnells manor, occupied from the 6th to 15th centuries. To the west and south the Langham Road site included elements of settlement, boundary ditches and timber buildings from the 7th to 15th centuries. Further evidence of early/ middle Saxon occuation and late Saxon and medieval settlement might lie within the development area. A boundary ditch system of late Saxon origin, which probably continued in use into the medieval period and related to the division of the manorial plot into several separate smaller plots, should cross the western end of the proposed development area. By the end of the 12th century buildings were possibly being relocated eastwards as part of the Rotton Row frontage. To the immediate south of the proposed development there lay a post-medieval metalled track running east-west, which probably respected the line of an earlier trackway that separated Furnells manor from lower-status properties to the south.