Find Spot record 0974500000 - Field marked Home Close (1613) and Sawyers Close (Tithe Map)

Below a layer of mixed humic ploughsoil containing two sherds of shelly coarseware and modern pottery, the stratigraphy of this test pit was dominated by a dump of limestone up to 300mm deep. This contained no dating evidence but sealed a cleaner silty clay containing a single sherd of shelly coarseware and two sherds of Banbury ware. The absence of 13th century fabrics, particularly Potterspury Ware which dominates the pottery assemblage elsewhere suggests that the last deposit had been laid down in the twelfht century and had remained undisturbed since that date. The qunatity of pottery recovered is probably more than might be expected to accumulate in medieval ploughsoil, but less than might build up close to settlement. It is difficult to interpret these results, but the presence of stone building materials, albeit not in-situ, together with some pottery, points towards the space containing medieval buildings. These may have had functions other than as a domestic residence, possibly agricultural buildings or outhouses (B1).