Monument record 3662 - Possible Iron Age to Romano-British Settlement

Cropmarks of a large rectangular enclosure with internal and insecting ditches. Fieldwalking has recovered a few sherds of Iron Age and Roman pottery

{1} Air photographs show a large rectangular enclosure containing various ditched features and intersected by other ditches. A group of small conjoined enclosures lies immediately to the north-east. A few sherds of Iron Age and Roman pottery have been found.

{3} Cropmarks; enclosure; (SP 897 625); (Nothing visible on available AP's(RAF 1947) St Joseph APs

{5} Mr Hall has collected a 'few scraps' of IA and RB pottery from this site.

<1> Royal Commission on The Historical Monuments of England, 1979, An Inventory of The Historical Monuments in The County of Northampton, p.180/Site 24 (unchecked) (Series). SNN77380.

<2> Rees G., 2008, Enclosure Boundaries and Settlement Individuality in The Iron Age, (unchecked) (Article). SNN106040.

<3> Hall D.N., 1966, Sites on the North Bedfordshire and South Northamptonshire border, 3/6 (W.10) (Article). SNN37934.

<4> Ordnance Survey, 1950s/1960s, Ordnance Survey Record Cards, SP86SE12 (unchecked) (Index). SNN443.

<5> Seaman, B H, 1970, Field Investigator's Comments, 07-AUG-70 (Notes). SNN111541.

Record last edited

Feb 3 2025 7:48PM