SNN110834 - Archaeological geophysical survey of Area 3 of the Wellingborough East flood relief works Irthlingborough, Northamptonshire September 2016

MOLA (Museum of London Archaeology) were commissioned to undertake a magnetometer survey of c 15ha of land south of Irthlingborough Grange, which is to be developed as Area 3 of the Wellingborough East flood relief works. The survey detected extensive Iron Age and Roman occupation remains located to either side of a Roman road. Most of the remains comprise settlement enclosures and field boundaries, but at least one stone building is also present. The survey also mapped traces of medieval to early post-medieval ridge and furrow cultivation.