ENN19842 - A6 Rushden and Higham Ferrers Bypass, 1996-7 (Fieldwalking)

{2} A corridor of land 5.4km in length and 100m wide was investigated. Four sites (Sites 1-4) had been previously identified in a Stage 1 desk top assessment lying within a 200m corridor, and a further two sites (Sites 5-6) lay close by. No evidence for Sites 1, 2, 5 and 6 was found in the Stage 2 work and they may lie entirely outside the proposed route. Evidence for Site 3 was recovered by both techniques. It appears to be a Romano-British settlement with associated field system. It may have an Iron Age antecedent. Only slight evidence of the Site was recovered in the form of small concentrations of Iron Age and Romano-British pottery. It may be the periphery of a settlement or it may represent intensive manuring of a contemporary field system.