Archaeological Monitoring and Recording at 9. Abbey Road, Bardney, Lincolnshire

The notified groundworks for this development site comprised limited internal ground reduction within the interiors of two former farm outbuildings, limited ground reduction to the rear of a former farmhouse to create a new patio area, the demolition of a former link between the farmhouse and these outbuildings and its replacement by a new extension. The groundworks for this new extension comprised the excavation of new foundations and limited ground reduction within the interior of this new extension. Unnotified groundworks comprised the excavation of new service trenching alongside the southern side of the farmhouse and to its rear where several new manholes were also excavated. Owing to the limited scale and extent of this development, and hence of the notified groundworks, no archaeological activity was identified. A finds assemblage was made collected from the ground reduction within the interiors of of two former farm outbuildings, the most significant of which were six sherds of pottery, which were all residual in nature and were all slightly abraded, possibly the result of ploughing activity that predated the outbuildings. The earliest of these sherds were of 15th-16th century date with the remainder dating from the early 18th-19th centuries. The remaining finds of brick and tile fragments were of early modern origin.