Monument record 4067/0/6 - Probable Iron Age/Roman settlement

Area of settlement activity identified by geophysical survey, including two ditched enclosures of probable Iron Age or Roman date which lie partially within the eastern half of the survey area. These are associated with possible roundhouses, a trackway and various other ditches and form part of a larger complex of remains which extends northwards beneath Wooldale Road

{1} Geophysical survey identified two sub-rectangular enclosures which, based on their shapes, would appear to be of Iron Age or Roman date. The southern enclosure is approximately 30 metres wide and has three gaps in its perimeter: two of these, however, may represent disturbance caused by modern
pipelines. Only the northern gap, which is flanked by expanded and enhanced ditch terminals, is convincing as an original entrance. The second enclosure, located to the north-west of the first, measures approximately 35m wide and has square corners. Its full dimensions are unknown as it continues outside the survey area, extending northwards beneath Wooldale Road.

East of the northern enclosure lies a near complete circular anomaly that may represent a roundhouse. Less convincing curvilinear anomalies on the other side of the enclosure may represent remains of further structures. South of these, running along the southern edge of the northern enclosure, are two linear anomalies which appear to represent the side ditches of a trackway aligned roughly east to west between the two enclosures. Several other linear anomalies have been detected, and these represent miscellaneous ditches of indeterminate function

<1> Meadows, A., 2014, Archaeological geophysical survey of land south of Wooldale Road, Wootton, Northampton, December 2014, p. 2-3 (Report). SNN110531.

<2> Horne, B (editor), 2016, South Midlands Archaeology (46), p. 44 (Journal). SNN111326.

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