ENN110434 - Land off Harborough Road, 2021 (Geophysical survey)

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Location

Grid reference Centred SP 7956 8470 (356m by 455m)
Civil Parish DESBOROUGH, North Northamptonshire (formerly Kettering District)

Technique(s)

Organisation

Allen Archaeology Ltd

Date

June 2021

Description

[1} Geophysical survey of 7.6ha of farmland to inform future planning application for a new car park area and extension to the factory. The geophysical survey has identified a number of features of archaeological interest, with at least three ring ditches seen in the results, although there may be more. These features may represent Iron Age settlement activity within the field, and potentially relate to a long positive linear feature aligned roughly west-northwest to east-southeast immediately to the north. This long linear feature may represent a former boundary or enclosure feature, although its meandering nature may suggest it was originally a natural feature which had later been maintained or reused for a different function.

Sources/Archives (1)

  • <1> Report: Evershed, R. 2021. Archaeological Evaluation Report: Geophysical Survey by Magnetometry on land off Harborough Road, Desborough, Northamptonshire. Allen Archaeological Associates fieldwork reports. AAL2021074.

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Related Monuments/Buildings (1)

  • Probable Iron Age settlement, north-east of Harborough Road (Monument)

Record last edited

Sep 20 2023 9:23AM

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