Monument record 5258/0/5 - Iron Age Boundary Ditches (Morphed Aerial Archaeology Interpretation)

Crop/soilmark: Good quality photography

{4} Two small sub-rectangular enclosures, one inside the other and sharing a common boundary, perhaps indicating a degree of contemporaneity. Within the smaller enclosure gullies form an oval area of some 16m x 12m which could represent the remains of a house. Two linear ditches, extending to the south east and south west of the outer enclosure could form part of a contemporary field system.

{5} A ditch measuring 0.8m wide and 0.4m deep. The sides were cut at an angle of approx 45 degrees falling to a flattened base. A quantitiy of Iron Age pottery and a single fragment of burnt clay were recovered, and evidence of degraded animal bone was also noted.

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

<2> FOARD G.R., 1986, Oral Report to SMR, (checked) (Oral Report). SNN52941.

<3> 1993, Draft Report on Raunds Survey, p.13-14 (part checked) (Full Report). SNN46789.

<4> Parry S. et al, 2006, Raunds Area Survey: An Archaeological Study of The Landscape of Raunds, Northamptonshire 1985-94, p.145 (checked) (Book). SNN105780.

<5> Dawson, M. & Leigh, D.J., 2012, The Excavation of Romano-British Features on Land at Nene Business Park, Irthlingborough, Northamptonshire June 2010-December 2011, p.3; https://doi.org/10.5284/1104318 (Report). SNN109200.

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Oct 24 2024 3:36PM