Monument record 3507/0/12 - Iron Age rectilinear enclosure

A rectilinear enclosure possibly bordered by a trackway. Internal features may include roundhouse ring ditches. Part of extensive area of Iron Age and Roman settlement excavated ahead of gravel extraction in the 1990s.

{2} Ditched trackway and enclosures on the north side of a small north-west flowing stream, on gravel at 44m above OD. Air photographs (in NMR) show a ditched trackway with an enclosure at its south end. The latter has a number of internal features, including at least two pennanular or ring ditches, probably hut-circles. Two other sub-rectangular enclosures and an irregular linear ditch are also visible in the area.

{3} The enclosure was of Iron Age date and could have been sited in the corner of a field bordered by pit alignments or ditches. A double boundary was present to the south of the enclosure and may have bordered a trackway or droveway between fields. It is likely that this enclosure contained roundhouse(s).

{4} Ditched enclosure with (?) internal building at (SP 897639). (Aerial photograph, unnumbered 7 7 59.)

{5} Nothing visible on APs (RAF 1947))

{6} Both of these sites are under crop. Mr Hall has walked the area when it was ploughed but found nothing. Probably an RB site.

{7} Cropmarks of enclosures and pits at SP 896640 in Wollaston parish.

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

<2> Royal Commission on The Historical Monuments of England, 1979, An Inventory of The Historical Monuments in The County of Northampton, p. 177/Site 6 (Series). SNN77380.

<3> Jackson D.A., 1990, An Archaeological Evaluation at Wollaston for Pioneer Aggregates Ltd. (U.K.), p. 7 (Report). SNN70063.

<4> Historic England, Unknown, Oral information, correspondence (not archived) or staff comments, A Warhurst, Curator Northampton Museum 21.7.59 (Oral Report). SNN111577.

<5> Aerial Photograph, AP R Hollowell (Photographs). SNN112974.

<6> Seaman, B H, 1970, Field Investigator's Comments, F1 BHS 06-AUG-70 (Notes). SNN111541.

<7> Hall D.N., 1966, Sites on the North Bedfordshire and South Northamptonshire border, p. 6 (Article). SNN37934.

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Jul 8 2024 12:21PM