SNN103978 - Earls Barton, Mallard Close

An archaeological survey involving geophysical survey and trial excavation located a square Iron Age enclosure and Roman features. The enclosure ditch, nearly 4m wide and 1.25m deep, produced pottery dating from the middle to late Iron Age and into the Belgic period. An internal gully and an external pit are dated to mid to late 1st century AD. A large primary Belgic assemblage included sherds with spalling and this , and the ramins of a kiln spacer, suggests that a pottery kiln may be nearby. About 30m SE of the enclosure there were three roughly parralell gullies and a later pit all dating to the third or fourth centuries.