Old Rectory, Fleet Marston Archaeological Watching Brief Report

In June and July 2019 Oxford Archaeology was commissioned by Emery
Planning Partnership acting on behalf of Broadwood Residential Ltd to
undertake an archaeological watching brief at the Old Rectory, Fleet Marston.
The site is centred at SP 77740 16099 to the north‐west of Aylesbury. It
comprises a rectangular plot of land with the A41 road to the west and a
railway line to the east.
The watching brief took place in two phases. The first phase, undertaken in
June 2019, involved monitoring of the excavation of a soak‐away in the front
lawn of the Old Rectory (trench 1) and the footprint of an extension to the
eastern building (trench 2). The second phase, undertaken in July 2019,
consisted of the excavation of a pipe trench in the eastern part of the site
(trench 3).
No archaeological deposits or finds were detected during the watching brief.
Modern demolition materials were uncovered in trench 1. There was also
evidence of modern truncation of the archaeological horizon within this part
of the site