SNN112264 - Land adjacent to M1, Courteenhall, Northamptonshire: Archaeological trial trench

Headland Archaeology (UK) Ltd was commissioned by Courteenhall Estates to undertake an archaeological evaluation by trial trenching, prior to the determination of planning permission for the creation of a poultry shed and associated infrastructure, on land adjacent to the M1. The trial trenching comprised the second stage of the evaluation programme and followed on from a geophysical survey, also carried out by Headland. Eight trial trenches were excavated all of which were devoid of archaeological features. Several modern feld drains, laid out in a herring-bone pattern, and plough scars, likely dating to the post-medieval period, were present confrming the results of the geophysical survey. A large fint scraper was recovered from an unstratifed context.