Monument record 5118/0/2 - Late Bronze Age/early Iron Age pits, Upton

Small cluster of pits, two of which contained considerable amounts of pottery.

{1} There four pits, of which three were in a small group. In these three pits there were distinct lenses of material, indicating deliberate episodes of dumping, comprised pieces of charcoal and burnt stone. In two of the pits there were large amounts of pottery, and one also contained a near complete saddle quem. Plant macrofossils included barley and wheat, as well as onion couch, a tuber sometimes eaten in the Bronze Age, but this material could be intrusive from the overlying Iron Age settlement. Charcoal from pit 383 has been radiocarbon dated but, due to the nature of the calibration curve for this period, the calibrated range spans 250 years, spanning the 8th to early 6th centuries BC (810-530 cal BC, 95% confidence, 2540 +/- 40 BP, Beta-215490).

<1> Walker C.; Maull A., 2010, Excavation of Iron Age and Roman Settlement at Upton, Northampton September - December, 2000, p. 7 (Report). SNN107504.

<2> Walker, C. & Maull, A., 2010, Iron Age and Roman Settlement at Upton, Northampton (Article). SNN107490.

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