Monument record 1815 - Possible Iron Age to Saxon Settlement, south-east of Woodford Grange

Air photographs show a complex of crop-marks comprising enclosures and ditches and including at least four circular hut sites and a considerable number of pits. Fieldwalking over the cropmark site found Iron Age, Romano-British and Early Saxon pot, limestone and tile. Concentration of Iron Age and Romano-British pottery on area of darker soil.

{1}Settlement (centred SP 98687710) SE of Woodford Grange, on River Gravel at 100 ft above OD, close to the R.Nene. Air photographs show a complexity of crop-marks comprising enclosures and ditches and including at least four circular hut sites and a considerable number of pits. A little further NE is a large Roman site with which it may
be connected.

{3} Archaeological evaluation of land centred on SP988775 carried out in 1989. Widespread remains have long been attested in the area, including a nearby cropmark site of enclosure ditches and hut circles.

{5}FINDS; IA & RB & SMALL NUMBER OF EARLY SAX SHERDS RECOVEREDFROM N END OF FIELD DURING SURVEY (1);

{6}Field walking over cropmark site (30m transect) Iron Age, Romano-British and early saxon pot, limestone and tile found. Concentration of Iron Age and Romano-British pottery on area of darker soil.

{9} Cropmarks, showing rectangular and square enclosures are visible at SP 986771.

{10} The area is now under plough but nothing of archaeological interest was seen at the site. The marks on the photograph look to be superficial and recent.

{12} Linear feature (ditches), recorded on AP at (SP 985770) in 1980.

<1> Royal Commission on The Historical Monuments of England, 1975, An Inventory of The Historical Monuments in The County of Northampton, p.112/Site 5 (checked) (Series). SNN77379.

<2> Ordnance Survey, 1950s/1960s, Ordnance Survey Record Cards, SP97NE34 (checked) (Index). SNN443.

<3> Dix B., 1992, Recent Work in Northamptonshire Archaeology, p.125 (Checked) (Article). SNN104441.

<4> DIX B., 1989, Proposed Borrow-Pit For M1-A1 Link Road, Woodford, Northants: Planning Application EN/89/204C, (unchecked) (Report). SNN62545.

<5> CADMAN G.E., 1993, Woodford field survey, (unchecked) (SMR Report Form). SNN49989.

<6> CADMAN G.E., 1995, SMR REPORT FORM, (unchecked) (Uncertain). SNN49794.

<7> Soden I.; Dix B., 1995, The M1-A1 Link Road in Northamptonshire: Archaeological Observation Along the A14, 1989-94, p.22-23 (checked) (Report). SNN73926.

<8> Northamptonshire SMR Collection of Aerial Photographs, NCCAP:SP9877/1-22+24-26+28+29 (Aerial Photograph(s)). SNN104822.

<9> Aerial Photograph, St Joseph AP VV18 (25.7.57) (Photographs). SNN112974.

<10> Baird, J, 1969, Field Investigators Comments, F1 JB 29-OCT-69 (Note). SNN111452.

<11> Aerial Photograph, A/P (CUAP ZE87-90, ZJ89-91) (Photographs). SNN112974.

<12> Brown A.E. (ed.), 1981, Archaeology in Northamptonshire 1980, p. 207 (Article). SNN100418.

<13> RCHME, Undated, RCHME Inventory: Northamptonshire I (North-East), 890437 (Archive). SNN113295.

Record last edited

Jun 5 2023 3:55PM