The Archaeology Group had a quiet year, mainly sorting and identifying finds.
We did however go back to Rowden Abbey, with a JCB, to try and resolve a question that we had about the topography, at the time of the 1651 rebuild. A trench was put in, which ran from the neighbour’s boundary, out toward the fish pool. The result of this was, that we now believe that the terrace, which is now relatively level, had been artificially created, possibly during the house rebuild, as, between 1 and 1.5 metres of soil and stone had been introduced, this created the levelled southern garden, overlooking the fishpond.
