Monument record 3537 - Extensive Prehistoric/Romano-British Settlement & Land Divisions, south of Hardwater Road

Extensive area of Iron Age and Roman settlement largely comprising late Bronze Age/early Iron Age pit alignments and later Iron Age and Roman farmsteads, much of which was subject to archaeological excavation prior to gravel extraction in the 1990s.

{5} Cropmarks; various enclosure; two parallel lines of pits (SP 885627 - St Joseph Aps

{6} Partly visible on RAF APs.

{7} Under crop, not perambulated. Mr Hall said he has found nothing here but the site is almost certainly associated with the adjacent IA and RB sites.

{8} Enclosures, Ditches, Ditched Trackway and Pit Alignments (centred SP 886628), on gravel at 45m. above OD. Air photographs show cropmarks of sub-rectangular enclosures covering an area of some 5 hectares. The most southerly of these are intersected by a ditched trackway andpit alignments, parallel and close together, and visible for 600m. from SP 88186241 to 88656262. From this (at SP 88506270) another pitalignment is visible, running S.E. for 100m. To SP 88676255.

<1> Rees G., 2008, Enclosure Boundaries and Settlement Individuality in The Iron Age, (unchecked) (Article). SNN106040.

<2> Northamptonshire Archaeology & University of Exeter, 2009, Nene Valley: Archaeological and Environmental Synthesis (Digital archive). SNN111339.

<3> Parry, S & Audouy, M, 1995, Archaeological evaluation: Stage 2, Land south of Hardwater Road, Wollaston, July-August 1995 (Report). SNN112147.

<4> Brown A.G.; Meadows I.; Turner S.D.; Mattingly D.J., 2001, Roman Vineyards in Britain: Stratigraphic & Palynological Data from Wollaston in The Nene Valley, England (Article). SNN103331.

<5> Hall D.N., 1966, Sites on the North Bedfordshire and South Northamptonshire border (Article). SNN37934.

<6> Royal Air Force, Vertical Aerial Photography, 541/341 15.8.49 4084 (Photographs). SNN104890.

<7> Seaman, B H, 1970, Field Investigator's Comments (Notes). SNN111541.

<8> Royal Commission on The Historical Monuments of England, 1979, An Inventory of The Historical Monuments in The County of Northampton, P. 21 (Series). SNN77380.

<9> Brown, A E (ed), 1971, Bulletin of the Northamptonshire Federation of Archaeological Societies, P. 19 (Journal). SNN13960.

<10> Northamptonshire SMR Collection of Aerial Photographs, CUAP ACA 83-5, BCJ 71, 78, 2E 46-7, 49-51 ZJ 76-7 (Aerial Photograph(s)). SNN104822.

<11> Royal Air Force, Vertical Aerial Photography, RAF VAP F22 540/RAF/1312, 0291-2 (Photographs). SNN104890.

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Feb 3 2025 7:44PM