Find Spot record 0971100000 - Test pit behind The Roses

This STP produced more medieval pottery than any other STP in Akeley. It would appear that the back of the plots running back from the Lillingstone Road is still preserved within the orchard at the back of The Roses. The STP was located within the plot. The quantity of pottery is witness to old and intensive occupation during the middle ages, and might result from the deposition of domestic refuse in the plot itslef. A second STP outside earthwork on what might be field or meadow would be useful. However, it is clear that there was settlement on the opposite side of the road from the church in this area, possible focused around the T junction with Chapel Hill. This might be thought of as an early settlement focus, rather than the area around The Square where STPs failed to reveal such quantities of medieval pottery (B1).