Monument record 3503/0/1 - Possible Mesolithic and Neolithic site, Wollaston Quarry

Fieldwalking survey identified Mesolithic and Neolithic worked flint. Subsequent excavation identified Neolithic pits.

{1} Fieldwalking recovered 141 Neolithic flints and 2 Neolithic axe fragments.

{3} 330 Mesolithic and secondary Neolithic flints including Mesolithic blades and cores, two Neolithic flint arrowheads, and a neolithic axe fragment. The flint scatter continues to edge of alluvium and presumably runs beneath it.

{5} Flint working site (SP 896646), in the N.E. of the parish, close to the R. Nene, on alluvium at 45m above OD. Worked flints said to be of Mesolithic type have been found.

{7} Three late Neolithic pits [8516, 8517 and 8574] lay over a 40m by 20m area on the western side of Field 3 close to the location of the early Neolithic pit.

<1> HALL D.N., Oral Report to SMR, Site 24 (20/3/1980) (Oral Report). SNN104827.

<2> Brown A.E. (ed.), 1981, Archaeology in Northamptonshire 1980, p201 Wollaston (Checked) (Article). SNN100418.

<3> HALL D.N., Oral Report to SMR, (1980) (Oral Report). SNN104827.

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

<5> Royal Commission on The Historical Monuments of England, 1982, An Inventory of The Historical Monuments in The County of Northampton, p.202 (part checked) (Series). SNN77382.

<6> 1980, Correspondence, (unchecked) (Correspondence). SNN57395.

<7> Atkins, R and Meadows, I, 2024, Neolithic pits, late Bronze Age/early Iron Age pit alignments and Iron Age to Roman settlements at Wollaston Quarry, Northamptonshire, p. 12 (Monograph). SNN116677.

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