| Title: |
Archaeological Watching Brief at the Elms, High Street, Brackley, Northamptonshire |
| Number of Pages: |
28 |
| Biblio Note |
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| Publication Type: |
Report
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| Abstract: |
An archaeological watching brief during housing development found extensive but not evenly spaced archaeological features across the development area. These features consisted of two stone wells, two probable ovens and a plethora of pits and quarry areas. Pottery collected from features gave a 12th to 16th century date range. The first evidence of use were in several small pits found across the development area dating to the 12th to late 13th centuries. They were presumed to lie within plots to the rear of domestic buildings fronting onto the High Street and/or Halse Road. By the end of the 13th century there was evidence of at least two buildings built in the back plots over the development area. A clay lined well pit with stone lined well shaft was dated to the 13th century and was probably associated with the stone bake and brew house uncovered a few metres to the south in 1999. In the western area of the development, another well and two possible ovens were uncovered. It was likely that these features were associated with a building but there was no indications of walls or other structural elements. The site seemed to have been temporarily abandoned but later quarrying seemed to have occurred in the late medieval to early post-medieval period. The site was never reoccupied and became a garden for the early 17th century almshouses fronting onto the High Street. Around the beginning of the 20th century it became an ornamental garden belonging to a large 17th century house. [Au(abr)] |
| Author: |
Rob Atkins
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| Publisher: |
Northamptonshire Archaeology
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| Year of Publication: |
2000
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| Locations: |
| Location - Auto Detected: |
Halse Road |
| Location - Auto Detected: |
Elms High Street Brackley Northamptonshire |
| Location - Auto Detected: |
High Street |
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| Subjects / Periods: |
| 12th To 16th Century (Auto Detected Temporal) |
| 17th Century (Auto Detected Temporal) |
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MEDIEVAL
(Historic England Periods)
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| 13th Century (Auto Detected Temporal) |
| 12th To Late 13th Centuries (Auto Detected Temporal) |
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MEDIEVAL
(Historic England Periods)
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| 20th Century (Auto Detected Temporal) |
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| Note: |
Date Of Issue From:
2000
Date Of Coverage From:
01
Date Of Coverage To:
01
Editorial Expansion:
Site name: THE ELMS, HIGH STREET, BRACKLEY
Study area:
Investigation type: Post-determination/Research
District: South Northamptonshi
Monument: PIT. Undated, OVEN. Undated, WELL. Undated, EXTRACTIVE PIT. Medieval (1066-1540), PIT. Medieval (1066-1540), [finds]. Medieval (1066-1540)
Ngr: SP58783747
Parish: Brackley
Postcode: NN136DX
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| Source: |
BIAB
(Archaeological Investigations Project (AIP))
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| Created Date: |
18 Jan 2009 |
