SNN47307 - St Peter's Church, Brackley, Northamptonshire: Archaeological Watching Brief

In May 1997 the Oxford Archaeological Unit (OA U) undertook a watching brief during excavations in the churchyard at St Peter's Church, Brackley (NGR SP 5916 3730), in advance of the construction of a southern extension to the church. The watching brief identified a large quantity of human charnel located in the vicinity of two modern service pipes, and the manhole to which they led. This material, which was present in varying quantities throughout the subsoil, was recovered and bagged and was reburied at the discretion of the Rev. Canon Peter Woodward. The roofs of two brick-built vaults, previously recorded, were seen in plan and left in situ. No articulated human remains were seen and no finds were retrieved. Two pieces of an inscribed gravestone were encountered in one of the ground beam trenches in the south-east corner of the site; these were recovered and recorded