SNN110013 - The Old Railway Club, Broad Green, Wellingborough, Northamptonshire: Archaeological Excavation 2014

A small set-piece excavation was undertaken in order to fulfill a condition placed on planning approval for a development at The Old Railway Club, Broad Green, Wellingborough. Previous evaluation had found a small number of medieval pits and postholes along the Broad Green frontage and roadside ditches associated with the former route of Outlaw Lane. Elsewhere much of the development site had been quarried or subject to modern disturbance. A smll open area along the Broad green frontage exposed more of the shallow medieval features. The features had no regualr pattern and were rather irregular in form, suggestive more of planting holes than postholes. They did, however, contain large quantities of pottery dating to between c1250 and 1350. A further small area opened in the vicinity of Outlaw Lane proved that what had been interpreted as the western roadside ditch in the evaluation, was actually the edge of a quarry which extended at least 15m to the west. The existence of this quarry illustrates the extent of the post-medieval quarrying within the site.