Monument record 5000/0/1 - Possible Iron Age/Romano-British Enclosure (Morphed Aerial Archaeology Interpretation)

Crop/soilmark: Good quality photography

{2} On the northern slope of Hunsbury ridge at Briar Hill, an Iron Age enclosure was identified during the excavation of the Neolithic causewayed enclosure. Further up the slope are the sites of a square, double-ditched enclosure and a pit alignment that were partially excavated in the 1970s, and a small settlement that was identified form cropmarks shown on aerial photographs after the site had been developed for housing. The pattern of settlement appears to have been strongly influenced by the underlying geology, the Northampton Sands and Ironstone, which provided a source of workable iron ore and gave rise to light, well-drained soils suitable for agriculture.
There may also have been a Roman settlement on the northern slope of Hunsbury ridge.

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

<2> Carlyle S., 2010, Neolithic Cremations And A Romano-British Enclosure at Milton Ham, Northampton, February and March 2008, p.4 (part checked) (Report). SNN107968.

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Sep 22 2014 2:29PM