Monument record 3729/0/2 - Early-middle Saxon site, Grendon Quarry

Possibly part of a wider Early to Mid Anglo-Saxon settlement. An isolated sunken-featured building was found 330 metres to the east of further settlement evidence.

{1} Excavation undertaken in 1976. Three sunken-featured buildings were excavated, situated at least 30m apart. The full extent of two of them had not survived but it seems likely that each pit originally extended to the axial posthole and that both were roughly square or rectangular in plan. Other Saxon features included pits and shallow ditches with a few early-middle Saxon pot sherds including one with stamp decoration. Two shallow inhumation burials were noted during soil-stripping but both were either partly scraped away or too badly crushed to merit salvaging;

<1> Brown A.E. (Editor), 1978, Archaeology in Northamptonshire 1977, 13/179 (Journal). SNN2192.

<2> HALL D.N., 1978, South Midlands Archaeology: CBA Group 9 Newsletter (8), 8/4 (Newsletter). SNN60830.

<3> Royal Commission on The Historical Monuments of England, 1982, An Inventory of The Historical Monuments in The County of Northampton, p.199/Site 14 (unchecked) (Series). SNN77382.

<4> Brown A.E. (Editor), 1977, Archaeology in Northamptonshire 1976, 12/224 (Report). SNN723.

<5> Jackson D.A., 1995, Archaeology at Grendon Quarry, Northamptonshire: Part 2, Other Prehistoric, Iron Age and Later Sites Excavated in 1974-5, and Further Observations Between 1976-80, p20 (Checked) (Report). SNN70994.

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