SNN110248 - Penn's Orchard, Station Road, Cogenhoe, Northamptonshire

In April/May 2015, seven evalaution trenches were excavated in a former orchard in the village of Cogenhoe, Northamptonshire, in an area which had the potential to reveal evidence of Romano-British and early medieval activity or occupation. The proposed development site is approximately 0.9ha and the trial trenches provided a sample of approximately 4.6%. Archaeological features were exposed in four of the trenches. These comprised three gullies, a ditch and an arrangment of eleven post-holes, the latter considered to be part of an early medieval building. A single sherd of Anglo-Saxon pottery was found in one of the post-holes. The overall assemblage of carbonised cereal grains and other plant macrofossils recovered from the post-holes and three other linear features are congruent with the Anglo-Saxon period or later.