SNN111242 - Land adjacent to Westhorp, Greatworth, Northamptonshire: Bronze Age cremation, Iron Age enclosure, Roman inhumation and ditch, Report on Archaeological Mitigation Programme, 2018

This report details a programme of archaeological mitigation work undertaken on land adjacent to Westhorp, Greatworth, Northamptonshire in 2017. It has been prepared by SLR Consulting Ltd (SLR) on behalf of Watson & Cox Construction. The main results of this phase of investigation revealed a Bronze Age cremation dated by radiocarbon determination to 1391-1131 BC, a second possible cremation dated between the 8th – 5th centuries BC, and a series of Iron Age ditches and pits which may have formed part of an enclosure, associated with shell-tempered and grog-tempered pottery. During the Roman period a large ditch, with a smaller parallel feature probably contemporary to it, were found together with an inhumation burial lying between. Pottery of 2nd- 3rd century date was found in the ditch, and the skeleton was scientifically dated between AD236-386.