Images from a Watching Brief at Norton Community Primary School, Norton-on-Derwent, North Yorkshire, July 2009

This collection comprises images from an archaeological watching brief at Norton Community Primary School, Norton-on-Derwent, North Yorkshire. This work was undertaken by Allen Archaeology in July 2009. The watching brief exposed several layers of demolition material associated with various episodes of construction of the existing school buildings. Throughout the majority of the test pits and boreholes, a substantial deposit of brown sand up was recorded overlying the natural sand. No dating evidence was recovered from this deposit, so it was not possible to ascertain how the sand related to the extensive Roman settlement that occupied much of this area, or indeed how it formed.