SNN111101 - Archaeological observation, investigation and recording of the Irthlingborough to Burton Wold underground cable route, Northamptonshire, July and August 2017

Archaeological observation, investigation and recording work was carried out during groundworks on the route of the Irthlingborough to Burton Wold underground cable. Archaeological remains were uncovered on the south-eastern edge of Irthlingborough belonging to a former late 19th to early 20th-century brickworks and later tannery. These consisted of brick and concrete walls and a brick floor. A possible tramway cut a nearby refuse dump. The finds all dated to this period and came mainly from the refuse pit, which included several hundred domestic bottles and glass containers, stoneware bottles, a stoneware hot water bottle and a First World War British army cap badge. No archaeological features were encountered elsewhere on the route.