SNN110813 - Archaeological mitigation at Darsdale Farm, Raunds, Northamptonshire, June to September 2015: Assessment report

Between June and September 2015 MOLA Northampton carried out archaeological mitigation work at Darsdale Farm, Raunds. A series of rectilinear field boundary ditches were bounded to the east by a long-lived linear land boundary. Stone in the upper fill of ditch may have come from an associated trackway. A rectangular enclosure abutted the western side of the boundary system, and an internal oven/hearth contained two intact triangular fired-clay loomweights. The pottery assemblage spans the 1st century AD, comprising late Iron Age and early Roman vessel types. Two poorly preserved inhumation burials of unknown date were found to the south-west of the enclosure. In the north-eastern part of the project area there were at least three small post-built structures of probable early/middle Saxon date.