Data from a Trial Trench at Greatworth Hall, Northamptonshire, 2019-2020 (HS2 Phase One)

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Connect Archaeology, High Speed Two Ltd. (2025) Data from a Trial Trench at Greatworth Hall, Northamptonshire, 2019-2020 (HS2 Phase One) [data-set]. York: Archaeology Data Service [distributor] https://doi.org/10.5284/1126694

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Introduction

This collection comprises of images,spreadsheets and site records from a trial trench at Greatworth Hall, Northamptonshire, 2019-2020.

Project Summary

The outcome of the geophysical survey has been largely confirmed by trial trenching (C252-ETM-EV-REP-020-000264_P01). The features on the northern and north-eastern part of site form a possible localised, enclosed, Iron Age farmstead, defined by a D-shaped enclosure and ancillary features. The features to south proved to be inconclusive. The trial trenching works confirmed ridge and furrow cultivation in Trenches 36, 44, 47-49, 55, 59, 69 and 72. The trial trenching works also confirmed the presence of post-medieval quarrying in trenches 44 and 45 only, which suggests quarrying was more localised than initially supposed by geophysical survey. A single well was identified in Trench 17. No archaeological features were recorded in Trenches 1-16, 18, 19, 22-27, 30-33, 35, 37, 40, 42, 43, 46-49, 51-53, 57-59, 61, 62, 64, 65, 69, 70 and 72-74.

Re-Use Value Statement

The Greatworth Hall archive can be considered as part of the wider HS2 archive and as such has re-use value.

The site has value on its own as it identified post-medieval quarrying and an Iron Age farmstead which may be worth further study. The evidence contributes to the corpus of such sites in Britain.


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