Find Spot record 0972500000 - Test pit at The Keepers Cottage

Keepers Cottage actually lies in the parish of Wicken and thus in Northamptonshire. Once again, however, the opportunity to investigate an area close to this boundary was of potential value and it is this context that the results might be viewed. Whilst the majority of the assemblage here proved to be modern, the recovery of a single sherd of Romano-British pottery is of interest. A small settlement of this period is known to lie 300m south-west of the TP, the field producing in addition a thin scatter of pottery indicative of Roman maturing of arable fields. It may well be that the location of the TP lies within this cultivated area. It has also been suggested that the county boundary here follows a Roman road, running north-west from a bridging point over the River Ouse at Thornton. Whilst the evidence from the TPs along this stretch cannot prove the existence of this road, neither can they dismiss the possibility (B1).