Series: CLASP unpublished report series

Magnetometer survey of an open area in the centre of Boddington village prior to the construction of hard standing for 2/3 cars. Believed to be the site of medeival crofts

Geophysical survey of 4 fields NW of Bannaventa in Northamptonshire. The survey revealed numerous ditches, enclosures, possible round houses and regularly laid out enclosures adjacent to Watling St. extending for 500m North of the Posting Station boundary. 2 phases of ridge and furrow.

Magnetometer survey of 3.5ha of pasture 1km N.W. of Bannaventa Roman Settlement. Round houses and boundary ditches revealed. Probably late Iron Age/early Romano-British

With the permission of Morgan Sindall and Western Power. the community based archaeological charity CLASP undertook a watching brief on the excavation of a power cable trench on the south side of the B4036, Daventry to Long Buckby road, near Thrupp Farm Northamptonshire. Several ditch profiles of unknown date and a probable mid- Victorian rubbish pit were observed along the general alignment of the cable trench. However archaeological fieldwork concentrated on an exploratory rescue excavation of a 35 m section of the cable trench adjacent to Thrupp Farm. The trench contained a series of features that included two associated substantial masonry walls (one of which was apsidal and would have formed part of a large building), a hearth from another structure and a further sizeable stone wall associated with the metalled floor foundation surface of a third building. The limited number of finds suggest the remains are late medieval and likely to be associated with the deserted medieval village of Thrupp. They should probably be interpreted as representing the potential remains of late 15th century medieval tenements destroyed by enclosure in 1489 and an associated abandoned chapel.