NHER 61939 (Monument record) - Medieval to post-medieval features

April 2013-April 2015. Watching Brief.
Monitoring of groundworks associated with construction of an extension to 19 Church Road and a new detached garage.
Relatively deep soils were encountered, with natural deposits encountered between 0.8m and 1m below the ground surface. Several archaeological archaeologically significant features were recorded, including three ditches and two discrete features. Medieval pottery sherds were recovered from two of the ditches, both of which were aligned roughly north-to-south. The third ditch, which was aligned west-north-west to east-south-east produced a single sherd of Roman pottery. No burials were identified during these works suggesting that the western extent of the churchyard of St Peter and St Pauls Church had always been on or near its present position. It is possible that two of the ditches revealed during this work were actually associated with the boundary of the medieval churchyard.
The discrete features included a shallow possible pit and a single post-hole, neither of which produced any finds.
Other finds of note recovered during this work included a residual sherd of Roman pottery.
See report (S1) for further details.
P. Watkins (HES), 3 November 2016.