Monument record 2301/0/75 - Possible Iron Age/Roman settlement

[Part of the wider Harper's Brook Complex] The site of a probable Iron Age or Roman enclosure, apparently destroyed during gravel quarrying in 1965. It had been photographed as a cropmark by St Joseph in 1953. Limited salvage excavation of the ditch recovered a single sherd of Late Iron Age pottery from the primary silts, suggesting that the site may have been broadly contemporary with the more fully investigated ditched enclosure to the north (SP 98 SE 15). Ordnance Survey field investigation also apparently recovered four Roman potsherds from the surface in the vicinity of the enclosure.

{1, 3} A double ditched enclosure quarried away south-east of the hedge - only the one sherd was found {3a}. Now under corn stubble. There are no surface indications of the enclosure but 4 isolated fragments of RB grey ware was found. No IA material seen. No air cover available.

{2} SP 99358005. Crop marks. One IA Hunsbury type sherd found by D Jackson in 1953.

<1> Ordnance Survey, 1950s/1960s, Ordnance Survey Record Cards, SP98SE14 (checked) (Index). SNN443.

<2> Northampton Museum 6 Inch Map (Map). SNN10162.

<2a> Historic England, Unknown, Oral information, correspondence (not archived) or staff comments, Dr J K St Joseph (Oral Report). SNN111577.

<3> Colquhoun, FD, 1969, Field investigators comments, F1 FDC 8-OCT-69 (Notes). SNN112950.

<3a> Historic England, Unknown, Oral information, correspondence (not archived) or staff comments, Dennis Jackson (MOW) Northampton (Oral Report). SNN111577.

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Jun 25 2024 9:29AM