SNN105288 - Archaeological Evaluation at Pineham North, Upton, Northamptonshire

A trial trenching evaluation was carried out in advance of development on three fields to the south-east of Kislingbury, adjacent to the M1 motorway. Six of the twelve trenches excavated found archaeology in areas where previous geophysical and fieldwalking work had identified sites. Trenches 2 and 5 to 9 contained extensive evidence of a mostly 1st to 2nd century AD Romano-British occupation site, with a number of construction phases the site is likely to have had a mixture of buildings with regular rectilinear enclosures. Evidence of medieval arable farming in the form of ridge and furrow was discovered within nearly all the trenches showing the later agricultural nature of the site.