SNN100027 - Archaeological Investigation: Sywell Areodrome, Northamptonshire, Stage 2: April - May 1996

An archaeological excavation, together with magnetomer survey and observation during construction, was carried out by Northamptonshire Archaeology on land at Sywell Aerodrome in April-May 1996. The work further investigated an Iron Age settlement identified from cropmarks and confirmed by trial excavation. The archaeological work took place on a small area of the cropmarks and revealed features and activity dating from the early to the late Iron Age. Early Iron Age pottery was recovered from a long linear ditch though stratigraphically this ditch was dated as middle Iron Age. The early- middle Iron Age was represented by three pits found on the extreme north east of the excavation which may signify a focus of occupation in this period outside the area of excavation. The middle Iron Age formed the vast majority of the evidence and comprised parts of two enclosures, a four post structure, and a scatter of pits all truncated by subsequent cultivation. These were all presumably part of a single farmstead.