Monument record 7649 - Bronze Age and Iron Age activity, Griffiths Farm

Archaeological investigation, including geophysical survey and trial trench excavation, identified a number of later prehistoric features in the vicinity of Griffiths Farm. The earliest feature was an isolated pit radiocarbon dated to the early Bronze Age. A series of other features, including ditches and a ring ditch, were dated to the Iron Age.

{2} Archaeological evaluation identified an area of archaeological activity on the lower slope to the north of Wootton Brook, where a Bronze Age pit, containing cremated animal bone and three flint arrowheads (and a scraper), was identified, along with an Iron Age ring ditch and several late Iron Age ditches. A number of undated ditches and pits were also identified.

{3} The large, shallow pit radiocarbon dated to the end of the Early Bronze Age.

<1> Butler, A., 2008, Geophysical survey of land at Wootton, Northampton September - December 2007 (Report). SNN106506.

<2> Carlyle, S., 2008, An archaeological evaluation of land near Wootton, Northampton October 2007 to January 2008, p. 15-18 (Report). SNN106507.

<3> Chapman, A. & Carlyle, S., 2012, A Bronze Age Pit Deposit and Round Barrows Near Wootton, Northampton (Article). SNN108363.

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