SNN108981 - Archaeological Watching Brief for the New Access Road at The Cottons, Rockingham, Northamptonshire February - March 2013

An archaeological watching brief was carried out by Northamptonshire Archaeology during February-March 2013 along 130m of access road at The Cottons, Rockingham. Late medieval and post-medieval buildings, pits, postholes, ditches and drains were located, concentrated in two separate areas behind properties fronting onto Main Street. Artefacts recovered from the two areas included medieval and post-medieval pottery, animal bone, glass, window lead, building materials, clay tobacco pipes and other late post-medieval finds. The buildings are believed to have been outhouses for a small row of cottages. Map evidence indicates that the outhouses were probably demolished c1806-1815. There was no evidence for the surface of the former medieval back lane which was mapped in 1615.