Monument record 3369 - Iron Age & Romano-British Settlement, With Possible Earlier Activity

Air photographs of an enclosure and finds of pottery and flint suggest a prehistoric, Iron Age and Roman settlement.

{1} Coin of Nero found March 1968. Rev: Genio Augusti. Copper as, RIC Nero 346, 60-4AD.

{2} {4} Romano-British and Iron Age pottery found with flint scraper, Romano-British tile and stone scatter. Air photo taken in 1969 shows marks of a ditched enclosure (no surface indication of enclosure in 1970).

{3} Iron Age and Roman Settlement (SP 83135800; Fig. 35), between the village and Mere Barn, on Boulder Clay at 107 m. above OD. Air photographs (in NMR) show a series of rectangular ditched enclosures with indistinct internal features in some of them, covering an area of about 2 hectares. Finds from the same field include Iron Age and Roman pottery, Roman tiles and a flint scraper, associated with a scatter of stones. A coin of Nero was also found.

{6} Fieldname: Mere Barn. Air photos show four conjoined rectangular enclosures covering in all some 2 acres, with suggestions of internal features in some of them. Fieldwalking in 1959 and later produced a stone scatter, worked flints, Iron Age and Roman pottery, and Roman tiles.

{7} {9} Five bronze coins of the 3rd and 4th centuries found in 1984. Descriptions.

{8} Roman coin, 4th century found c.1985.

{10} Mr Hollowell confirmed the site and said Northampton Museum have all the finds. There is no surface indication of the enclosure.

<1> Brown A.E. (Ed.), 1969, Archaeology in Northamptonshire 1967/68 (Roman), 3/9 (checked) (Article). SNN58198.

<2> Ordnance Survey, 1950s/1960s, Ordnance Survey Record Cards, SP85NW31 (checked) (Index). SNN443.

<3> Royal Commission on The Historical Monuments of England, 1979, An Inventory of The Historical Monuments in The County of Northampton, p.32 site 1 (checked) (Series). SNN77380.

<4> Northampton Museum Topographical Index, Site List (unchecked) (Index). SNN1470.

<6> HOLLOWELL R., 1971, Aerial Photography and Fieldwork in the Upper Nene Valley, 6/8 site 4 (checked) (Journal). SNN106546.

<7> Kings, B., 1984, Finds from Denton, Paulerspury, Potterspury and Deanshanger, (checked) (Report). SNN57628.

<8> Musgrave E.C.; Tingle M. (editors), 1991, Archaeology in Northamptonshire 1990, 23/110 (checked) (Article). SNN100325.

<9> Dix B.(ed), 1985, Archaeology in Northamptonshire 1983-4, 20/149 (checked) (Report). SNN100404.

<10> Baird, J., 1970, Field investigators comments, F1 BHS 8-SEP-70 (Notes). SNN110341.

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