SNN109326 - Land Off Farndon Road, Hinton (Woodford Halse), Northamptonshire: Archaeological Field Evaluation
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Type | Report |
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Title | Land Off Farndon Road, Hinton (Woodford Halse), Northamptonshire: Archaeological Field Evaluation |
Author/Originator | Gregson, R.; Wells, J. & Edmondson, G. |
Date/Year | 2014 |
SMR Input Date (use for label searches) | 18/02/2014 |
Abstract/Summary
Albion Archaeology was commissioned to undertake a programme of archaeological evaluation in support of a planning application or residential development of land off Farndon Road, Hinton. At the time of the evaluation in mid January 2014, the site was pasture, recently grazed by sheep. The trenching strategy was devised to examine a variety of anomalies detected by geophysical survey. The fieldwork revealed a good correlation between a number of geophysical anomalies considered to be of archaeological origin and actual features. The features were mainly confined to the north of the site, comprising a prehistoric ditched feature which correlates with a circular geophysical anomaly, c.15m in diameter. A small assemblage of finds was recovered from the feature, including small undiagnostic fragments of calcined bone. No internal features were identified. Given the absence of other contemporary features in the vicinity, this feature may be the ditch of a burial monument rather than a roundhouse drainage ditch. This part of the site also contained a number of undated features, including the flanking ditches of a possible trackway, detected by geophysical survey parallel to the present road. Further east two quarries were identified, targeted on outcrops of the bedded limestone. No finds were recovered from the backfill, suggesting that the features were of some antiquity. A series of furrows, with typically shallow concave profiles, in the central and southern parts of the site, are characteristic of medieval and later arable cultivation. A series of deeper linear features identified towards the northern margin of the area are thought to be later cultivation features. These were truncated by a later ditched boundary, although this does not correlate with any boundaries shown on historical maps. Investigation of possible pit-like geophysical anomalies in the south-west part of the site revealed considerable variations in the geological strata, which probably account for the magnetic responses. In summary, the evaluation revealed a small number of archaeological features in the northern part of the site, which correlate with geophysical anomalies. The prehistoric circular feature which probably defines the ring ditch of a burial monument has local and regional significance; the other features are of lesser significance, mostly relating to the medieval and later arable landscape of the village.
External Links (1)
- https://doi.org/10.5284/1109827 (Link to report on ADS)
Description
Copy on CD located in CD filing cabinet
Location
NCC Archives Service, Heritage Team SMR Library
Referenced Monuments (1)
- 9563/1 Undated features, Farndon Road (Monument)
Referenced Events (2)
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Dec 6 2024 9:46AM