SNN106098 - A Bronze Age Cremation Burial From Upton, Northampton: Upton Flood Attenuation (Phase 2), Archaeological Watching Brief

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Title A Bronze Age Cremation Burial From Upton, Northampton: Upton Flood Attenuation (Phase 2), Archaeological Watching Brief
Author/Originator
Date/Year 2008
SMR Input Date (use for label searches) 06/10/2008

Abstract/Summary

Between September and November 2007, an archaeological watching brief was carried out by Northamptonshire Archaeology during flood attenuation works on the north side of the River Nene, between Kislingbury and Upton, Northampton. The topsoil was stripped in three separate areas, consisting of two spurs for the construction of banks and an area of floodplain lowering. A small pit containing a cremation in a Collared Urn has been radiocarbon dated to the early 2nd millennium BC, the early Bronze Age. A number of postholes lay nearby, one of which cut the cremation pit and may have contained a grave marker. A series of undated shallow, parallel gullies and postholes, possibly part of a water-meadow management system, and a post medieval or modern boundary ditch were also recorded.

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Description

Spare copy in SMR temp store

Location

NCC Archives Service, Heritage Team SMR Library

Referenced Monuments (3)

  • Boundary ditch (Monument)
  • Pit containing Bronze Age cremation urn, Upton (Monument)
  • Undated ditches and pits, Upton (Monument)

Referenced Events (1)

  • Upton Flood Attenuation, 2007 (Watching brief) (Ref: 08/78)

Record last edited

Jan 23 2023 9:33AM

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