Monument record 1814 - Iron Age & Romano-British Settlement

Fieldwalking surveys in the area have found significant quantities of Roman building material, pottery and other finds and two buildings, possibly part of a villa, have been identified. Archaeological evalution in the northern part of the area found a concentration of late Iron Age enclosures and ditches.

{1} Archaeological evaluation of land centred on SP988775 carried out in 1989. Widespread remains have long been attested in the area, including a former Roman villa at SP988774. The evaluation demonstrated the widespread survival of Iron Age ditches and postholes in the southern half of the field. Subsequent quarrying was therefore confined to the northern part of the application site, which lay largely outside the area of archaeological interest.

<1> 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.

<2> DIX B., 1989, Proposed Borrow-Pit For M1-A1 Link Road, Woodford, Northants: Planning Application EN/89/204C, (unchecked) (Report). SNN62545.

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