ENN104245 - Harlestone Quarry, 2006 (Excavation)
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Location
Grid reference | Centred SP 70851 63986 (186m by 181m) Central |
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Civil Parish | HARLESTONE, West Northamptonshire (formerly Daventry District) |
Technique(s)
Organisation
Northamptonshire Archaeology
Date
October 2010
Description
{1} Archaeological excavation at Harlestone Quarry near Northampton; an area of approximately 1.2 hectares was stripped. Radiocarbon dating indicates that residual charcoal of early Bronze Age date had been deposited in a pit of a later pit alignment. A single isolated small pit containing burnt debris has also been radiocarbon dated to the early Bronze Age. A late Bronze Age/early Iron Age date would be expected for the pit alignment, but no dating evidence was recovered. The alignment appeared to comprise regular rectangular pits cut into both ironstone and clay, but the pits cut into the clay had eroded sub-circular surface plans. A linear boundary ditch was also undated, but may be related to an area of open settlement that comprised a scatter of small pits and postholes, including remnants of possible roundhouses and four-post structures. The small pottery assemblage contained little diagnostic material, but an early-middle Iron Age date is likely, perhaps the 5th-4th centuries BC. Furrows of a medieval ridge and furrow field system were also recorded.
Sources/Archives (3)
- <1> SNN105844 Report: Field L.; Chapman A.. Archaeological Excavation at Harlestone Quarry Near Northampton, October 2006. Northamptonshire Archaeology Fieldwork Reports. 06/173. N.C.C.. (part checked).
- <2> SNN110992 Article: Chapman, A, Clarke, J, and Foard, A. 2017. A Bronze Age and Early Iron Age landscape at Harlestone Quarry, Northampton. Northamptonshire Archaeology. 39. Northamptonshire Arch Soc.
- <3> SNN106005 Newsletter: Horne B. (Editor). 2007. South Midlands Archaeology: CBA Group 9 Newsletter (37). South Midlands Archaeology: CBA Group 9 Newsletter. 37. C.B.A.. p. 18.
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