Find Spot record 0971400000 - 5 test pits at The Leys

The recovery of significant quantities of medieval material from test pits 31-33 place these TPs within an occupied zone. The discovery of 166 sherds from a single stratified deposit in TP 32 is unparallelled from elsewhere in the village, or in the villages of Whittlebury and Leckhampstead, both subject to the same investigation. All three TPs provide good evidence for short-lived occupation, spanning little more than 100-150 years along this part of the Leckhampstead Road. Significantly, the drop-off of material, experienced in TPs 34 and 35 suggests that these fell outside the occupied zone. This places the croft boundary between TP 33 and 34, backing onto an area which appears to have been cultivated during the medieval period. These TPs have added essential information to our understanding of the medieval form of the village and provides good evidence for the creation of settlement along this axis (B1).