SNN110853 - Saxon Rise 2, Northampton Road, Brixworth, Northamptonshire: Archaeological Evaluation, 2014

In June 2014, Cotswold Archaeology carried out an archaeological evaluation of the proposed site of the Saxon Rise 2 residential development, off Northampton Road, Brixworth, Northamptonshire. Fourteen trenches were excavated. Previous archaeological investigations to the immediate north of the site had recorded a complex of mainly Iron Age features, including a series of enclosure and boundary ditches. Geophysical surveys of the present evaluation site indicated the presence of similar features throughout the site. The evaluation recorded a series of ditches and a small number of pits, as well as the remnants of a stone wall. These features displayed a broad correspondence with the results of the geophysical surveys. Artefactual material indicated that the features were mainly Iron Age and Roman in date, although there was also limited evidence for Mesolithic and Bronze Age activity at the site. The features exposed by the present evaluation were broadly similar in nature and date to the features recorded previously to the immediate north of the site, although there was a greater amount of Roman material from the present site. The site appears to have been in continuous occupation in the Iron Age and Roman periods, although the limited evidence for activity after the 3rd century AD suggests that the site was abandoned in the later Roman period.