Find Spot record 3835/0/1 - Unstratified Early & Early Middle Saxon Pottery

A possible Early Saxon settlement indicated by pottery finds of that period.

{1} Fieldwalking recovered early and middle Saxon pot sherds including some with stamp decoration.

{2} Report on pot sherds; This group of thirty seven sherds can all be dated to the Early and middle saxon periods and a date range of c.530-550 to c.700AD is suggested.

{3?} Sparse scatter of Saxon sherds over many acres on both sides of Marsdale Slade. The finds include not only hard sandy/gritty black, greyish and brownish sherds, all with grey/black cores, and most with high mica content, but also sherds with stamp and groove decoration. (Over area centred on SP895654.)

{4} No features associated with the early middle Saxon period were found during geophysical survey and subsequent trial trenching, although a single sherd of early middle Saxon pottery was retrieved during the excavation of Trench 7, which was located close to the previous find spot.

{5} Saxon settlement (?) (SP 893654), on Boulder Clay at 45m above OD. Early Saxon sherds have been found over an area of nearly 2 hectares. More pottery of the same type has been found to the S. in Great
Doddington parish.

<1> Foard, G.R., 1976, The Recovery of Archaeological Evidence by Fieldwalking With Particular Reference to The Parish of Great Doddington, (unchecked) (Dissertation). SNN103128.

<2> PEARSON T.; BRUNIER P., SUPPLEMENTARY FILE, (checked) (Notes). SNN51758.

<4> Peachey, M. And Taylor, G., 2014, Archaeological evaluation at The Ridge/Doddington Road, Great Doddington, Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, January 2014, p. 6 (Report). SNN110468.

<5> Royal Commission on The Historical Monuments of England, 1979, An Inventory of The Historical Monuments in The County of Northampton, p. 169/Site 28 (Series). SNN77380.

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