SNN111915 - Harringworth Lodge, Harringworth, Northamptonshire: Archaeological Observation, Investigation, Recording, Analysis and Publication

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Type Report
Title Harringworth Lodge, Harringworth, Northamptonshire: Archaeological Observation, Investigation, Recording, Analysis and Publication
Author/Originator
Date/Year 2016
SMR Input Date (use for label searches) 20/03/2020

Abstract/Summary

Planning permission and listed building consent (15/00918/FUL and 15/00919/LBC) were given by East Northamptonshire Council for the installation of a new biomass heating system in a stone barn at Harringworth Lodge, Harringworth, Northamptonshire. Harringworth Lodge originated in the 13th century as a hunting lodge associated with a deer park. A condition requiring a programme of archaeological works was attached to the listed building consent. The works comprised archaeological monitoring and investigation during groundworks and historic building recording. The latter forms the subject of a separate report. The investigations were targeted on trenches extending across a former farmyard to the north of the house and across an area to the east, as far as Fishponds Cottage. The farmyard is now a gravelled courtyard, surrounded on three sides by ranges of agricultural buildings. Observation of the trench across the yard showed limestone bedrock, overlain by the remnants of a black organic silt layer representing typical farmyard build-up. The upper part of the deposits had been truncated by the construction of the modern gravelled courtyard surface. To the east of the farmyard the groundworks uncovered a north-south aligned ditch and a layer of re-deposited clay which forms a raised earthwork. The ditch was filled with a deposit of undifferentiated brown clay. No dating evidence was recovered from the ditch; however, the spatial relationship between the adjacent 19th-century farm buildings and the ditch suggest that it predates the buildings. The re-deposited clay layer forms a raised earthwork situated close to the eastern edge of the farm buildings. It was derived from the underlying clay geology observed to the east of the farmyard. The eastern edge of the layer extended over (and therefore post-dates) the ditch. No artefacts were recovered. The only material observed was modern (Fletton) brick rubble and unworked limestone fragments. The project archive will be retained by Albion Archaeology until deposition at the Northamptonshire Archaeological Resource Centre (NARC) when this opens. A digital copy of the site archive will be deposited with the Archaeology Data Service. This report will be uploaded onto the Archaeology Data Service’s OASIS website (OASIS ID no. albionar1-218562).

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Description

Digital copy on Sharepoint. Hard copy in library.

Location

NCC Archives Service, Heritage Team HER Library

Referenced Monuments (1)

  • Undated ditch, Harringworth Lodge (Monument)

Referenced Events (1)

  • Harringworth Lodge, 2015 (Observation) (Ref: HL2702)

Record last edited

Aug 19 2020 12:22PM

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