SNN111109 - Archaeological geophysical survey at Overstone Green, Northamptonshire, August to October 2017

MOLA was commissioned to undertake a magnetometer survey at Overstone Green, to the north of Northampton. The survey covered c130ha of land and revealed five principal archaeological sites together with some dispersed features which may also be of archaeological interest. The sites comprised an enclosure and roundhouse of probable Iron Age to Roman date, a large enclosure of uncertain date (but probably pre-medieval), two small enclosure complexes each likely to date to the Iron Age or Roman period, and the remains of a post-medieval buildinf, Sywell Lodge. It is not known when the lodge was built but it was certainly extant in 1827 and demolished prior to 1885. Lesser archaeological features, including medieval ridge and furrow cultivation and the remains of a historic trackway, were also detected by the survey