SNN111726 - Early Bronze Age, Iron Age and Anglo-Saxon landscapes at Apex Park, Daventry

MOLA investigated a multi-period site at Apex Park, Daventry. The earliest feature comprised a segmented circular enclosure, 25m in diameter, subsequently recut as an almost continuous ring with a narrow eastern entrance. It produced no artefacts but the recut is radiocarbon dated towards the end of the early Bronze Age. A large polygonal enclosure and a rectilinear field system probably date to the late Bronze Age/early Iron Age and a pit alignment respected and terminated adjacent to the enclosure. On lower land to the north a middle Iron Age open settlement, c450-250BC, a small family farmstead, comprised at least two and possibly four roundhouse ring ditches, several four-post structures and both smaller pits and some larger storage pits set beside a linear boundary ditch with a transverse boundary to the south. There was a possible Anglo-Saxon sunken-featured building.