Monument record 1977/0/10 - Probable Iron Age/Roman double ditched enclosure

A double ditched rectangular enclosure, probably a Roman farmstead was recorded on aerial photographs at this location. Roman pottery and a coin were also found here.

{2}SP 849661, air photographs (in NMR) show a sub-rectangular double- ditched enclosure with an entrance on the W and pits in the NW and SE corners, and to the S of it is a second small enclosure and associated ditches. To the E, part of a double-ditched trackway is visible. In this field and the adjacent ones Roman pottery, including samian and grey wares, limestone, iron slag and worked flints have been discovered.

{3} SP 849 662. Crop-marks on air-photo. "This was discovered and photographed on 29th July, 1960. Graham Webster has examined the photograph and thinks the site is a Romano-British farmstead". [See AO/61/106/4 & 5].

{4/5} SP 848661. Cropmarks, pottery including samian and greyware, iron slag, and a small furnace revealed in 1967. Material in Northampton museum. Under corn crop. No surface indication of early occupation.

{6} A small rectangular enclosure found on air photographs at SP 8500 6604.

{7} SP 850662. A Roman coin AD 251-3 has been found.

<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. 108/site 6e (Series). SNN77380.

<3> Historic England, Unknown, Oral information, correspondence (not archived) or staff comments, L. Poulton (Letter, 1.2.61, File AO/C/XP, No.136) (Oral Report). SNN111577.

<4> Moore W.R.G., 1968, Roman Settlement in the Upper and Middle Nene Valley, P. 63 (Uncertain). SNN15188.

<5> Baird, J., 1970, Field investigators comments, 01-SEP-70 (Notes). SNN110341.

<6> Brown, A E (ed), 1971, Bulletin of the Northamptonshire Federation of Archaeological Societies, P. 15 (Journal). SNN13960.

<7> Royal Commission on The Historical Monuments of England, 1982, An Inventory of The Historical Monuments in The County of Northampton, P. 200 (Series). SNN77382.

<8> Brown A.E. (Editor), 1976, Archaeology in Northamptonshire 1975, p. 192 (Journal). SNN169.

<9> Historic England, Undated, Aerial photographs of cropmark, Mears Ashby (Archive). SNN116466.

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