SNN105822 - Archaeological Evaluation of The Anglian Water Pipeline from Chelveston to Newton Bromswold, Northamptonshire, July 2006

An archaeological evaluation comprising geophysical survey, fieldwalking, watching brief and excavation was carried out by Northamptonshire Archaeology during preliminary groundworks ahead of the proposed Raunds to Newton Bromswold Anglian Water pipeline. This report covers the southern end of the pipeline from Chelveston to Newton Bromswold. An excavation was carried out at Manor Farm on an archaeological site previously identified through aerial photography and geophysical survey. It revealed part of a late Iron Age enclosure system, which may be characterised as a probable single family farmstead, which went out of use in the early Roman period. The enclosure ditches and other features produced a small assemblage of Late Iron Age and early Roman pottery and a single copper alloy brooch is dated to the first half of the 1st century AD. During the medieval period the site was under cultivation and truncated furrows of a field system overlaid the earlier archaeology.