Cuttle Brook Restoration Project, Stowe, Buckinghamshire

In the summer and autumn of 2002 Oxford Archaeology (OA) carried out a series of archaeological investigations as part of a restoration project at the Cuttle Brook, Stowe, Northamptonshire (SP67683930– SP66703640). The Cuttle Brook is on the western edge of Stowe Estate and forms the north-west boundary of the fallow deer park. Excavation, recording, survey and watching brief works were carried out on behalf of the National Trust, who had initiated a programme of restoration and repairs to the Brook and a number of silted ponds. The principle discoveries were elements of timber and brick water control devices, probably dating to between the mid-18th century and the mid 19th-century.