Monument record 4981/0/1 - Iron Age settlement on the site of the causewayed enclosure, Briar Hill

[Part of the Hunsbury Hill Complex] An Iron Age settlement discovered during excavation comprising three rectangular enclosures and a number of associated pits all containing Iron Age pottery.

{1}Major excavation undertaken in 1974-8 on the site of the Neolithic causewayed enclosure. Three rectangular enclosures and a number of associated pits, all containing Iron Age pottery, overlay the Neolithic enclosure. Two of the enclosures lay side by side in the south-east part of the site. The larger, 30m X 21m was surrounded by a ditch, while the second, 15m x 11m was surrounded by a slot for a fence or palisade. Both had entrances on the east side and to the north and east was a cluster of pits. The third enclosure, 11m x 11m, was some distance away on the west side of the site. Pits immediately to the west and south contained slag and fired clay; SP73655920-73545924.

{5} This site was plotted during a 1:2500 scale, level 3, photogrammetric survey which was carried out in June 1995 by the Air Photography Unit of RCHME.

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

<2> BAMFORD H.M., 1976, Briar Hill - First Interim Report: November 1974 - March 1976, p.10 (unchecked) (Article). SNN71074.

<3> Bamford H., 1979, Briar Hill Causewayed Enclosure: Second Interim Report, April 1976-October 1978, p.14/6 (unchecked) (Article). SNN22419.

<4> Royal Commission on The Historical Monuments of England, 1985, An Inventory of The Historical Monuments in The County of Northampton, p.276/Site 9 (checked) (Series). SNN77383.

<5> Dyer, C, 1995, RCHME: Briar Hill Causewayed Enclosure Project (Archive). SNN114643.

<6> Dyer, C, 1995, Industry and Enclosure in the Neolithic Period (Archive). SNN114644.

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Feb 4 2025 7:29PM