SNN115097 - 1EW03- Enabling Works Central AWHf C3- Fieldwork Report for Trial Trench Evaluation at Radstone Manor Farm, Brackley North Cutting, Northamptonshire (AC300/6)

The archaeological Trial Trench Evaluation carried out by Connect Archaeology between the 17th of June 2020 and 13th of August 2020 at Radstone Manor Farm, Brackley North Cutting, Northamptonshire, 1C18RADTT (Fig. 1), within the Newton Purcell to Brackley Community Forum Area, CFA14 (centred on NGR SP 58336 40502). The evaluation encompassed one parcel of land (C30017) measuring 39.3ha in total. The Site was located c. 250m southwest of Radstone hamlet. 4.1.2 The Site is contained within land parcel C30017 and is comprised of four fields. Of the two fields to the west of Radstone Road, the northern field contained 19th century field boundaries and ridge-and-furrow features spread throughout. In addition to these, the southern field contained linear Pits, Postholes, Ditches and Gullies which dated from the Saxon and medieval periods and were found in Trenches 055, 063, 082, 083, 084, 085, 096 and 103. To the south-east of Radstone Road, a single trench was located in the northern field (125) while the remainder were located to the south. Trench 125 contained an 11th-century Ditch which was roughly orientated E-W and an 18th-century stone deposit which overlay the natural and underlay the topsoil. The southern field contained many well-preserved ridge-and-furrow earthworks, which, based on their differing orientations, can be confidently assigned three different periods of construction and use. Also located was a hardcore road surface which linked a now-demolished cottage to the main farmhouse to the north.