SNN111176 - Land north of Hampton Drive, Kings Sutton, South Northamptonshire: Updated Project Design

Headland Archaeology UK (Ltd) was commissioned by Barwood Strategic Land, to undertake an excavation on land north of Hampton Drive, King Sutton, South Northamptonshire, to satisfy a planning condition relating to application S/2012/1417/MAF. Excavations revealed the remains of a linear sequence of penannular ditches, thought to represent the remains of Iron Age roundhouses. These were found in association with semi-circular ditched enclosures which may have related to small scale industrial or agricultural activity. The site was confined to the north by two large boundary ditches which appeared to mark the northern extent of the settlement site. Multiple phases of remodelling were identified in association with the possible roundhouses including evidence, in the form of large quantities of fuel-ash slag, for the possible destruction by fire of wattle and daub structures. The semi-circular features, on a different alignment, are thought to indicate a different phase and form of activity.