The proposed development site lies on the north side of Main Street, at the south-east end of the village. At the commencement of site works, it was a roughly rectangular plot of open land between Shepherd’s Cottage and Newcastle Cottage, approximately 2300 square metres in area, chiefly under mown turf, with a hard-surfaced tennis court at the north side. Initial work consisted of the demolition of the tennis court, which was carried out using with a 360° JCB JS130 excavator with a 0.65m tooth bucket. This was followed by the stripping of vegetation to depth of 0.35m from the public pavement toward and including the house and garage plot, using the same machine but with a toothless bucket. The same machine with a 0.65m tooth bucket was then used to excavate the footings trenches for the new house and garage. At a later date the excavation of the drain trenches was carried out using a Volvo BL71 excavator with a 0.65m tooth bucket. This commenced from the north side of the newly constructed house running north west to south east 10m, then headed north for a further 18m toward the former tennis court. A pit, measuring 1m x 2.2m x 1.3m, was then excavated at the end of the northern side of the drain trench in order to house a bio-treatment unit. The monitoring of groundworks on this site identified two features: a pit containing early medieval and medieval pottery and the shallow base of an undated but possibly recent ditch. It seems most likely that the site lay within a privately enclosed plot on the periphery of the village, and that the artefacts retrieved were brought in from elsewhere as part of the deposition of midden material for manuring or ground raising.