Monument record 1198/1 - Possible Early/Middle Iron Age settlement and iron working, Old Tun Copse

Discrete scatters of Iron Age pottery have been found in an area of c20ha since forest clearance and deep ploughing in the 1950s. Finds include areas of dark soil, burnt pebbles, cobbled floors, iron slag and worked flints associated with both early and mid Iron Age pottery.

{1} Features identified in 1956 during timber clearance included stone floor associated with Iron Age pottery and iron slag. Fieldname: Old Tun Coppice.

{2} Finds in estate office.

{3} Several discrete scatters of Iron Age material have been found over an area of at least 20 hectares, since forest clearance and deep ploughing in 1956. Finds include areas of dark soil, burnt pebbles, cobbled floors, iron slag and worked flints associated with both early and mid Iron Age pottery.

{4} Old Tun Copse, on Wakefield Estate. Heavy pebbling and Iron Age B pottery found during deforestation 1955.

{7} This site has been interpreted as a possible hillfort based on finds, viewshed analysis and a consideration of ancient trackways.

{10} Whittlewood, soilmarks of charcoal burning and iron production. Recorded on AP in this area in 1987

<1> Ordnance Survey, 1950s/1960s, Ordnance Survey Record Cards, SP74SW5 (unchecked) (Index). SNN443.

<2> 1961, Wolverton and District Archaeological Newsletter, 6/2 (Newsletter). SNN16440.

<3> Royal Commission on The Historical Monuments of England, 1982, An Inventory of The Historical Monuments in The County of Northampton, p.168/Site 3 (unchecked) (Series). SNN77382.

<4> Brown A.E. (ed.), 1966, Bulletin of the Northamptonshire Federation of Archaeological Societies (Prehistoric), 1/5 (checked) (Article). SNN19308.

<6> Brown A.E. (Editor), 1975, Archaeology in Northamptonshire 1974, 152+175 (Report). SNN41605.

<7> Hatton, G, Aveling, J and Garnett, N, 2013, Old Tun Copse, Paulerspury, Northants (Report). SNN113169.

<8> Ordnance Survey, 1955, 1950s/60s Ordnance Survey 6 Inch Mapping Series (SP44NE) (Map). SNN61128.

<9> Baird, J, 1969, Field Investigators Comments, 27/Oct (Note). SNN111452.

<10> Shaw M., 1982, South Midlands Archaeology: CBA Group 9 Newsletter (12) (Journal). SNN22160.

<11> 1969, Journal of the Wolverton and District Archaeological Society, p. 19 (Newsletter). SNN27392.

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