ENN109499 - Northampton Western Relief Road, 2019 (Trial trench)

{1} Trial trench excavation along the proposed route of the north-west relief road comprised 123 trenches ranging from 30m by 1.80m to 50m by 2.40m. The evaluation revealed four distinct areas of significant archaeological remains. These comprised: early prehistoric activity located at the edge of the floodplain in Trenches 36‐41; middle‐late Iron Age settlement focused around, but not limited to, Trenches 70‐73; Roman activity peripheral to a settlement in Trench 96 and late Roman activity, including evidence for crop processing and structures, in Trenches 112‐114 and 116. In addition, isolated features were encountered elsewhere within the evaluation, although these were invariably historic or failed to produce any artefactual evidence.