Brampton Primary School

On the 13th August 2014, OA East carried out archaeological monitoring and recording at Brampton Primary School (TL 52055 27081). The monitoring was carried out during the excavation of a single trench to install an attenuation tank as part of a program of building refurbishment works. A wide, silt filled drainage channel was discovered, aligned north to south. The only datable finds from the channel were two sherds of medieval pottery. However, these may have been residual as a fragment of post-medieval tile and sherd of post-medieval glass were recovered from a subsoil layer which the channel truncated. Therefore the channel may be post-medieval in date and could have linked a village green pond to Brampton Brook, located to the south of the site.