SNN112152 - Bourton Way, Wellingborough and Station Road, Higham Ferrers: Two middle Iron Age settlements overlooking the River Nene in Northamptonshire

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Type Monograph
Title Bourton Way, Wellingborough and Station Road, Higham Ferrers: Two middle Iron Age settlements overlooking the River Nene in Northamptonshire
Author/Originator
Date/Year 2020
SMR Input Date (use for label searches) 26/10/2020

Abstract/Summary

Two new housing developments in Wellingborough and Higham Ferrers, Northamptonshire, gave Albion Archaeology the opportunity to excavate there before building work began. Each excavation revealed part of a middle Iron Age settlement that was already known from previous excavations, and this publication takes a comparative overview of the whole of both settlements. Situated overlooking the River Nene, the two settlements were in prime topographic locations for a mixed farming economy, dominated by the husbandry of sheep/goat and cattle, and the growing of wheat and hulled barley. As is often the case on sites of this period, occasional evidence for non-agricultural activities such as textile-, bone- and antler-working were alos recovered. The bourton Way settlement in Wellingborough is thought to have covered about 4 hectares and comprised a central domestic focus of roundhouses, post-built structures and storage pits, surrounded by fields. In contrast, the station Road settlement in Higham Ferrers consisted of a loose arrangement of domestic and non-domestic enclosures, fields and boundaries spread over 3.5 hectares

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Description

Hard copy only

Location

NCC Archives Service, Heritage Team HER Library

Referenced Monuments (2)

  • Middle Iron Age settlement, Wilby Way (Monument)
  • Site of Middle Iron Age farmstead, east of Station Road (Monument)

Referenced Events (2)

  • Bourton Way, 2013-4 (Excavation)
  • Land off Station Road, Higham Ferrers, 2014 (Excavation) (Ref: SR2230)

Record last edited

Oct 28 2020 9:31AM

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