Monument record 7150/0/4 - Late Iron Age/ early Roman ditches and pits

{1} West of the enclosure there was a pair of shallow ditches. At the western margin of the site these ditches ran into, and were probably cut by, a complex of features that formed the north eastern corner of the villa precint, suggesting that the genesis of the villa precinct lay within an enclosure and boundary system formed in the mid first century.

A group of pits and gullies lay both to the north and south of the ditches. To the north there was a group of three substantial oval to sub-rectangular pits containing some limestone and ironstone and small domestic assemblages of pottery and animal bone. To the south were a group of slots and postholes that may have formed wall slots for a fence or some small timber structure but they seem too far from perpendicular to have been the walls of a building.

<1> Chapman A; Thorne A., 2004, Further Excavation at Wootton Fields Roman Villa, p.5-6 (checked) (Report). SNN104571.

<2> Chapman A., 2000, Archaeological Recording Of A Roman Villa At Wootton Fields, Northampton, January-February 1999 Asse, p.6 (unchecked) (Report). SNN100291.

<2> Chapman A., 2005, A Roman villa and an Anglo-Saxon burial at Wootton Fields, Northampton (Article). SNN112204.

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Jul 24 2023 3:46PM