Monument record 3393/0/4 - Prehistoric/Iron Age settlement

Finds including worked flint and animal bone have been recorded and a scatter of stone and lines of ditches have been observed. Iron Age pottery has been recovered from a ditch.

{2} Fieldname: Gravel pit.

{3} Finds have included worked flints, animal bones and fire-blackened pebbles, associated with a scatter of stone and lines of ditches which appear in the plough soil. Iron Age pottery, including a near-complete bowl, was discovered in the excavation of a shallow ditch

{5} (SP 830590) IA Sherds, R Hollowell (? or Saxon Prof Hawkes). Trench 1962, stone scatter.

{6} Northampton Museum note the classification of the pottery now agreed by Hawkes as IA 'B' but the nature of the site is still undetermined.

<1> Northampton Museum Topographical Index, Site List (unchecked) (Index). SNN1470.

<2> HOLLOWELL R., 1971, Aerial Photography and Fieldwork in the Upper Nene Valley, 6/4 site 10 (checked) (Journal). SNN106546.

<3> Royal Commission on The Historical Monuments of England, 1979, An Inventory of The Historical Monuments in The County of Northampton, p.7 site 16 (checked) (Series). SNN77380.

<4> Ordnance Survey, 1950s/1960s, Ordnance Survey Record Cards, SP85NW39 (checked) (Index). SNN443.

<5> Northampton Museum Records (Uncertain). SNN126.

<6> Seaman, B H, 1970, Field Investigator's Comments, 13-MAY 70 (Notes). SNN111541.

<7> Brown, A E (ed), 1971, Bulletin of the Northamptonshire Federation of Archaeological Societies, 6/4 (Journal). SNN13960.

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