Monument record 2148/3/6 - Late Iron Age boundary/ drainage ditch (Morphed Aerial Archaeology Interpretation) checked

Crop/soilmark: Good quality photography

{2}A single gully of group 9, draining the base of the bank was cut by a north-south gully (group 10) which divided the enclosure into two. This was in turn cut by a pair of gullies which defined a sub-rectangular area perhaps providing drainage for stacked material such as a haystack.

{3} A single gully aligned north-south and dividing the enclosure into approx. halves. The gully got wider and deeper the further south it ran. The gully was presumed to have formed a sub-division of the enclosure but may also have functioned to improve drainage. The small assemblage of finds did not yield any diagnostic forms and was loosely attributable to the late pre-Belgic Iron Age.

<1> Northamptonshire SMR Collection of Aerial Photographs, Used with NMR & CUCAP collections (Photographs). SNN104822.

<2> Windell D., 1983, Clay Lane 1980: Interim Report - An Iron Age and Roman Rural Settlement at Clay Lane, Earls Barton, p.38 (checked) (Article). SNN40207.

<3> Windell D., 1982, Excavations at Clay Lane 1980 Level III: Structural Evidence, p.37 (checked) (Report). SNN75685.

Record last edited

May 15 2012 12:22PM