Monument record 1496 - Possible Iron Age/Roman settlement, south of Three Shires

Cropmarks of ditched enclosures and boundary ditches identified on aerial photographs during Northamptonshire's NMP project. Probably late Iron Age.

{2} AOC undertook works comprised of a single cable trench that stripped an area of 240m in length, 0.6m in width and depths of 0.7m. Due to these parameters, the recording of archaeological features were limited by the visibility. A total of seven archaeological features were recorded, which most could not be characterised apart from one that was a ditch. While visibility and testing of archaeological features was limited due to the narrowness of the excavation trench, the presence of charcoal inclusions and disarticulated animal remains is consistent with the materiality identified on nearby prehistoric archaeological sites. One feature contained a well preserved assemblage of animal bone was recovered, The bone was identified as an adult horse's right radius with the residual fused ulna stil intact.

<1> Northamptonshire SMR Collection of Aerial Photographs, NCC AP: SP4652/001, 006, 014, 015 (Aerial Photograph(s)). SNN104822.

<2> Cullen Cockburn, 2024, Daventry 11kv Cable, Boddington, West Northamptonshire, OX17 1HD: Archaeological Monitoring and Recording
Report (Report). SNN116633.

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Oct 29 2024 1:05PM