Monument record 2590/0/18 - Neolithic pits and Iron Age boundaries, Elton Estate

Archaeological investigations ahead of development identified a middle Neolithic pit cluster and middle and late Iron Age coaxial ditch system that formed a wider system of land division, probably forming areas of livestock management plots associated with a series of pits and postholes.

{1} Archaeological trial trench excavation and subsequent 'strip, map and sample' excavation was undertaken ahead of development. The earliest features were a cluster of four intercutting pits associated with an assemblage of struck flint and hand-made pottery consistent with a middle Neolithic date. Further pits in this area contained hand-made pottery of an undiagnostic form and were assigned a broader Neolithic to early Bronze Age date.
The first significant phase of activity dated to the middle to late Iron Age and comprised a series of narrow ditches aligned north-east to south-west that form a wider coaxial ditch system of land division; probably a series of pastoral livestock plots. Pits and postholes also dated to this phase.

<1> Podbury, L, 2022, Elton 2, Warmington, Northamptonshire, Extension to existing plant site: Archaeological evaluation and 'strip, map and sample' excavation, https://doi.org/10.5284/1112556 (Report). SNN115184.

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