The Orchard Queen Street Hook Norton Oxfordshire

In October and November 2011 Oxford Archaeology conducted a watching brief
during the construction of a new dwelling at The Orchard, Hook Norton, Oxfordshire
(NGR: SP 355 331). The watching brief recorded two phases of post-medieval
worked soil overlying weathered natural, together with a post-medieval rubbish pit.
Evidence for a disturbed early medieval rubbish or cess pit was recovered from the
backfill of an existing electric cable trench, but no evidence for the original feature
could be observed within the trench sides. No other evidence for activity pre-dating
the post-medieval period was encountered.