SNN107707 - An Archaeological Watching Brief at 33 Main Road, Shutlanger, Northamptonshire September 2011

In September 2011 an archaeological watching brief was undertaken during groundworks connected with the construction of a new house at 33 Main Road, Shutlanger. The main range of the new house almost directly overlay the former cottage. The ground here was disturbed with mixed topsoil directly overlying natural clays. A number of ceramic drains still partially survived, cutting into the top of the natural clay. To the rear, an extension to the new house ran partly onto the former garden. Here the natural was overlain by a thin subsoil and up to 0.6m of garden soil. Ther were no earlier disturbances of the natural clay in this area, and no earlier artefacts were present. The only finds recorded, but not retained, were of pottery and building materials contemporary with the demolished cottage.