ENN109364 - Land at Victoria Close, West Haddon, 2014 (Trial trench)

Site code: WH2139. A planning application is being prepared for residential development of land at Victoria Close, West Haddon, Northamptonshire. Albion Archaeology was commissioned by CgMs Consulting Ltd to undertake a programme of trial trenching, the results of which would support the planning application. A trenching strategy, comprising 10 trenches, was devised to investigate the area, utilising earlier geophysical survey that had identified a number of probable archaeological features. Two trenches in the land parcel to the west could not be investigated due to the presence of services. The evaluation was undertaken in mid-January 2014. It identified a series of ditches in the main land parcel, which correlated with geophysical anomalies. Two areas of archaeological remains, referred as the Northern and Southern Areas, were defined. They were separated by the central part which was devoid of archaeological features. The Northern Area, contained ditches corresponding to geophysical anomalies; they could comprise enclosures and converging trackways associated with the Iron Age / Romano-British settlement identified previously along the route of the bypass. The Southern Area, , defined an area of smaller rectilinear enclosures, extending from the southern margin The evaluation has confirmed the presence of two areas of enclosures, which are probably part of the same landscape as the settlement identified within the route of the bypass. The sparse finds may suggest that these enclosures were remote from the main focus of settlement. Information from OASIS Online Form.