Watching Brief at Church of St Mary, Purton

Attendance during hand excavation of two small test pits against the western graveyard wall Graveyard soil, the below-ground vault wall of a standing tombstone, and the back of the wall alongside Church End were found. A few scraps of human bone were present (none articulated), all reburied, along with a few sherds of early post-medieval pottery and once piece of creamware (all from the graveyard soil).