Source/Archive record SCH8469 - St Chad's Church, Farndon, Churchyard Extension: Geophysical Survey and Trial Excavation

Archaeological assessment undertaken by Chester Archaeology, in 1998, of a parcel of land proposed to form an extension to the existing churchyard at St. Chad's Church, Farndon. The assessment comprised a geophysical survey and two trial trenches. The grassed field lay to the south of the existing graveyard and church. The project's aims were to establish the past use of the field, with particular reference to the theory that it lay within a potential, large, curvilinear enclosure, defined by the High Street to the north, possibly representing a late Saxon vill. The geophysical resistivity survey, undertaken at circa 1m intervals, failed to identify any archaeological features. To confirm this, two trial trenches were excavated, one 2m by 2m, the other 2m by 1m. Neither trench produced any sign of significant archaeology. The finds retrieved consisted of pottery sherds, pipe stems and fragments of brick, bottle glass and animal bone, dating from the seventeenth to twentieth centuries.