Monument record 4972/0/4 - Probable Bronze Age Barrow

A ring ditch with a diameter of 22m was excavated. A small amount of Bronze Age pottery was recovered from the ditch fill and from two external pits. The feature is likely to be the ploughed-out remains of a round barrow.

{2} Excavation identified a ring ditch with a diameter of 22m. The ditch was up to 1.5m wide and 0.48m deep. A single undiagnostoc sherd of probable Bronze Age pottery was recovered from the fill.

Two external pits were identified 2-3m to the east of the ring ditch. A small assemblage of probable Bronze Age potery was recovered from the primary fill of one of the pits. An upper fill contained burnt cobbles. The single fill of the second pit contained a single sherd of probable Bronze Age pottery as well as burnt cobbles.

{4, 5} The barrow was excavated prior to residential development (Ring ditch 2 in text). It comprised an annular ditch with an opening at its south-eastern side with an elongated pit at the opening. Heavy truncation had destroyed any evidence of its former function; there were no burials or any evidence of a mound or banks.

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

<2> Carlyle, S., 2008, An archaeological evaluation of land near Wootton, Northampton October 2007 to January 2008, p. 9 (Report). SNN106507.

<3> Chapman, A. & Carlyle, S., 2012, A Bronze Age Pit Deposit and Round Barrows Near Wootton, Northampton (Article). SNN108363.

<4> Parker, T, 2019, Archaeological Excavations at Hardingstone, Northamptonshire: Post-Excavation Assessment and Updated Project Design for Analysis and Publication (Report). SNN113751.

<5> Parker, T, 2021, Archaeological excavation: Land to the east of Hardingstone, North of Newport Pagnell Road, Northamptonshire (Report). SNN116064.

<6> Tom Parker, Reuben Thorpe and Milena Grzybowska, 2023, Bronze Age Ring ditches and an Anglo Saxon farmstead on land to the east of Hardingstone, Northampton (Article). SNN116521.

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Oct 22 2024 1:11PM