Find Spot record 0975200000 - 9 Brookside

The deposits behind the cottage were deep but disturbed throughout as attested by the recovery of modern ceramics from the lowest levels. This is not surprising. Garden soils are prone to movement as a result of various activities, the most disruptive of which is landscaping. The gardens behind properties on Brookside are steeply sloped, and many have been terraced in order to create more usable spaces. Despite this, it is likely that while the soil has been moved within the garden, less material will have been added from without. Thus those Romano-British sherds recovered from this test pit, numberin g5 sherds, and the medieval pottery, numbering 13 sherds, of which 11 were sandy shelly wares of twelfth century date, almost certainy derive from human activity in this part of the village. Two sherds of Potterspury ware indicate continued activity here into the late 13th and 14th centuries. The quality and quantity of the medieval period is thus consistent with occupation predating the earliest fabric of the existing cottage. It must, therefore, be a successor to an earlier structure and indicates some occupation along the eastern side of the brook. The recovery of further sherds of Romano-British pottery complements those finds of that date recovered from TP 7 (0975100000) and suggest that this area falls within the orbit of a nearby settlement possibly on the other side of the brook (B1).