Field visit and excavation by B. Hooper at St Helen's Chapel, Bonhunt Farm, Wicken Bonhunt, 1967 - EEX1086

In the south-west corner of a ploughed field near the modern Bonhunt Farm and small chapel of St Helen built in the 2nd half of the 12th century, but now used as a barn, sherds, broken lava querns, oyster shells, bones and fragments of daub with wattle impressions were found on the surface after ploughing. The sherds were mainly of the 13th century and earlier. B. Hooper revealed a layer of gravel and animal bone at a depth of 13 in. above a light coloured soil. The only feature was a small hole filled with bone fragments and pieces of chalk. The animal bones were mainly of immature pig, but there were some of ox and sheep. Two nails and a rusty nodule were found in the gravel layer with ten sherds of St. Neots and gritty grey wares.