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

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.