Monument record 4552/0/13 - Late Bronze Age to late Iron Age settlement

Identified during geophysical survey and subsequently excavated during the construction of the Hannington to Pitsford pipeline

{1} An additional group of strong magnetic anomalies indicate a further settlement site in Fields 5 and 6. The findings include curved features likely to indicate hut circles in Field 6, where there is also a strong peak in the susceptibility readings.

Findings in Field 7 include a ditched enclosure containing strong, individual pit-like features, together with a system of intersecting field drains and some possible cultivation effects.
Distinct rectilinear enclosure with internal features.

{3} This site was excavated during the construction of the Hannington to Pitsford Pipeline. Settlement dated from the Late Bronze Age/early Iron Age and continued through to the late Iron Age. In the late Bronze Age/early Iron Age there were a number of boundary ditches, three enclosures, the truncated remains of two possible roundhouse gullies, a posthole structure, a possible trackway and a number of pits.
During the middle-late Iron Age, boundaries were redefined, though respecting earlier alignments, new enclosures were created, again often respecting earlier features, and further pits were excavated.

<1> Bartlett A.D.H., 2014, Hannington to Pitsford Mains Replacement Scheme: Report on Archaeological Geophysical Surveys 2013-14, p.4+6 & Fig.4 (checked) (Report). SNN109428.

<2> Lees, M and Jones, M, 2017, Hannington to Pitsford Water Pipeline Archaeological Excavation and Monitoring: Post-Excavation
Assessment, January 2017, p. 37-58 (Report). SNN110918.

Record last edited

Jun 9 2023 10:00AM