Find Spot record 5196/0/0 - Prehistoric Finds

A number of worked flints, mostly of Mesolithic date, and small quantity of Neolithic pottery was found during excavation in 1980

{1} Finds of 22 prehistoric worked flints during excavation; small blades suggest Mesolithic date; also 2 pot sherds of possible late Neolithic date; SP75656038. 10 very small fragments of Neolithic pot were found to the east on the Derngate frontage at SP75696039

{2} Worked flints & few fragments of badly weathered prehistoric pottery were found in deposits below medieval levels.

{3} Earliest layer was brown sand immediately above subsoil which in Northampton generally contains prehistoric & early-middle Saxon material; 9 prehistoric sherds & 16 worked flints recovered from layer; lack of Saxon material might indicate this particular layer of prehistoric period; only feature which might belong to this phase was possible posthole cut through layer but containing fill often associated with prehistoric or early-middle Saxon activity. Further finds included a single Roman potsherd & 2 worked flints.

<1> Royal Commission on The Historical Monuments of England, 1985, An Inventory of The Historical Monuments in The County of Northampton, p.323/Site 2 (checked) (Series). SNN77383.

<2> Williams J.H.; Shaw M.; Hardy S., 1978-1984, Northampton Development Corporation SMR Secondary Record Sheets, M351 (checked) (Catalogue). SNN108.

<3> Shaw M., 1984, Excavations on a Medieval Site at Derngate, Northampton, p.69 (checked) (Report). SNN627.

<4> SHAW M., 1981, South Midlands Archaeology: CBA Group 9 Newsletter, 32 (Interim Report). SNN4412.

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