SNN108430 - Archaeological Trial Trench Evaluation at Foxhills, Brackley North, Northamptonshire

An archaeological trial trench evaluation was undertaken at Foxhills, Brackley North prior to the proposed development on the site. Twenty-one trenches were excavated with only eight trenches containing archaeological features. The archaeological features were located on the top of a north-east facing slope in Field 1, and consisted of a group of roundhouse ring ditches, postholes and pits. A single posthole produced Early Iron Age pottery, probably dating no later than the 6th century BC. The majority of the pottery, including the material associated with the roundhouses, is dated to the Middle to Late Iron Age, 4th to 1st centuries BC. A single large pit produced a mixed pottery assemblage dating to the late Pre-Roman Iron Age, indicating that occupation had continued into the early decades of the 1st century AD. The trenches in Fields 2 and 3 contained no archaeological features while the single trench in Field 4 had been disturbed by modern dumping and levelling.