SNN110990 - Archaeological investigation of the putative lower garden terraces at Lyveden, Northamptonshire, 2017 2017

Trial excavation has indicated that foregoing published interpretation of Aerial Photographs regarding lower Garden terraces at Lyveden Old Build, between the orchard and the Old Build are very much off beam and such terraces lack any physical evidence. The landscape observations of Col KC Brown in the 1930s have been borne out – the slope was traversed by a very large ditch which began to be infilled in the mid-17th century. In addition, further trenching produced no evidence for a western approach to the Old Build.