Monument record 2269 - Romano-British Settlement/Possible Prehistoric Burial Site, west of Wadenhoe

Various cropmarks have been identified on aerial photographs. To the east, there are at least two late Bronze Age/early Iron Age pit alignments and to the west is a complex of intercutting rectilinear enclosures and ring ditches. Fieldwalking surveys have identified Roman pottery in the vicinity of the enclosures.

{1} Uncertain cropmarks.

{2} Fieldwalking identified a dark occupation layer with Romano-British pot sherds at TL004837.

{3} Cropmarks recorded in 1982. A double-ditched circular enclosure, circular enclosure, rectangular enclosure and other linear ditches. NCCAP:TL0083/067-68+70-73.

{4} No original notes. COMPLETE DATA PUBLISHED IN CBA.

{5} Pit alignment (TL 005835) W of Wadenhoe village on the N side of a small valley on Cornbrash at 170 ft above OD. Air photographs reveal short sections of two pit alignments meeting to produce a roughly Y-shaped pattern.

<1> Northamptonshire SMR Collection of Aerial Photographs, NCCAP:SP0083/071 (unchecked) (Aerial Photograph(s)). SNN104822.

<2> Brown A.E. (Editor), 1975, Archaeology in Northamptonshire 1974, p.163 (checked) (Report). SNN41605.

<3> Foard G.; Richardson D., 1983, Archaeology in Northamptonshire 1982 (Aerial Photography), p.180 Wadenhoe (checked) (Notes). SNN100412.

<4> Hall D.N., 1960-1999, Rockingham Forest Project: Archaeological Sites Recorded by David Hall, Wadenhoe/Site 3 (Database). SNN102279.

<5> Royal Commission on The Historical Monuments of England, 1975, An Inventory of The Historical Monuments in The County of Northampton, p. 102/Site 2 (Series). SNN77379.

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