SNN107193 - Archaeological Evaluation: Land at Monksmoor Farm, Daventry

In March 2006 ASC carried out a limited programme of evaluation trenching to investigate the archaeological significance of sub-circular ditches identified by geophysical survey. The targeted geophysical anomalies proved to be ditches, penannular gullies and a pit containing Iron Age pot sherds. Two ditches appear to bound areas used as stock enclosures. Other shallower penannular gullies probably define the locations of at least three roundhouses. The gullies show evidence of recutting and suggest at least three phases of activity at the site. Recovered pot sherds indicate that early/mid Iron Age settlement features are present. A small number of shallow gully/ditch features that were not evident in the geophysical survey data were also revealed. The date and archaeological origin of these features is uncertain as they had clean sandy fills that did not contain archaeological finds.