SNN112324 - Report on the results of the archaeological monitoring and recording at 25 Manor Road, Brackley, Northamptonshire

This interim report documents the results of an archaeological watching brief that was maintained on the groundworks pertaining to the construction of five new residential units on land at 25, Manor Road, Brackley, Northamptonshire. This report documents the results of the archaeological monitoring of the groundworks pertaining to residential units 1-5. The archaeological monitoring as carried out by James Roberts on the 3rd, 6th-18th, 10th, 22nd-25th and on the 29th of November 2017 and on the 8th and the 20th of December 2017. This interim report presents the results of the archaeological watching brief on the groundworks pertaining to the erection of residential units 1-5. No archaeological activity was identified on this site and there were no finds. The findings from this archaeological watching brief, which were consistent throughout the monitored area, consisted of a deposit sequence of a modern hardcore layer, a modern makeup/overburden layer and an underlying natural horizon of cornbrash. It is clear from the results obtained thus far, that the construction of modern buildings on this site such as the former demolished garages that had stood here, along with associated areas of modern hardstanding had already removed and had thus truncated any earlier archaeological deposits such as those which would have originated from the medieval and post-medieval periods on this site. This truncation was found to extend as far as the underlying natural horizon of cornbrash as adjudged by the overlying modern deposits above this horizon over the whole of the monitored area.