SNN46711 - Land Adjacent to Elwes Arms, Great Billing, Northamptonshire: Archaeological Evaluation Report

The Oxford Archaeological Unit carried out a field evaluation at Great Billing, Northamptonshire on land immediately north of the Elwes Arms public house on behalf of Mr J.M.Padbury. The evaluation was specifically aimed at locating palaeolithic finds and examining any associated Pleistocene geological deposits. Two trenches were excavated, revealing a ditch which is probably a post-medieval plot boundary. A sherd of 13th century medieval pottery was recovered from a soil horizon, although this is likely to be residual. Pleistocene deposits were identified and recorded in both trenches, but no palaeolithic finds were recovered form the deposits in spite of the fact that spoil from a hand excavated test-pit was dry-sieved for finds.