Site Event/Activity record ECH4632 - Archaeological Evaluation at the Site of the Proposed New Parsonage, Tattenhall, Cheshire

In 2009, Northamptonshire Archaeology undertook a trial trench evaluation on land at Chester Road, Tattenhall on behalf the Chester Diocesan Board of Finance who propose to build a new parsonage on the site. A pit dated to the mid-late Roman period by a small assemblage of pottery contributes to a modest body of evidence for Roman occupation in the vicinity. A cluster of undated pits and postholes could also be of Roman date – one contained a large assemblage of charred cereal grains. All six trenches revealed post-medieval features across the site, including ditches which correspond to boundaries depicted on the tithe map of 1838. (1)