Site Event/Activity record ENT5241 - Watching Brief at St Helen's Church, Trowell
Location
Location | Church of St Helen's, Trowell, Nottinghamshire, NG9 3PB |
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Grid reference | Centred SK 48379 39746 (12m by 9m) |
Map sheet | SK43NE |
District | Broxtowe |
Civil Parish | Trowell, Broxtowe |
Technique(s)
Organisation
Trent and Peak Archaeological Trust
Date
Not recorded.
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Description
The Church of St. Helen’s, Trowell, is located on a mild peak within the parish of Trowell, Nottinghamshire. The Church is surrounded on all sides by residential development, open park land and major roadways. A Victorian Churchyard extends out Southwards from the original Church boundary, which is still in use.
The floor level was reduced using a 360˚ tracked mini digger. The upper concrete surface was broken up by a jack hammer and the subsequent layers removed to formation by the mini digger using a bladed ditching bucket.
No artefacts or palaeo-environmental samples were collected.
Within the lower layer, two potentially archaeologically significant features were observed. These comprised the possible remains of an early packed stone foundation, and the top of a brick lined burial vault. Unfortunately there was no scope to investigate the possible early foundation, and its possible antiquity remains uncertain.
Throughout the rubble layer, a considerable number of disarticulated human remains were observed, principally comprising femora, tibiae and humeri. These suggest the likelihood of a number of earlier burials below the chancel floor, deposited prior to the practice of burials within the church being made illegal in the mid 19th century.
The disarticulated human remains were collected together and deposited in the church for re-burial by diocese.
Sources/Archives (1)
- --- SNT5881 Unpublished document: Laurence Platt and Victoria Owen. 2018. Report on an Archaeological Watching Brief at the Church of St. Helen, Trowell, Nottinghamshire. ,, ,,,,, ,.
Related Monuments/Buildings (5)
- MNT28533 Brick Grave Vault at St Helen's Church, Trowell (Element)
- L395 C13 Chancel, Church of St Helen, Trowell (Element)
- M395 CHURCH OF ST HELEN, TROWELL (Building)
- MNT28532 Disarticulated Remains at St Helen's Church, Trowell (Element)
- MNT28534 Stone Setting at St Helen's Church, Trowell (Element)
Record last edited
Jan 22 2025 4:23PM