SNN112259 - Archaeological excavation on land at Pineham, Upton, Northamptonshire, July 2006 to September 2006

MOLA (Museum of London Archaeology) formerly Northamptonshire Archaeology was commissioned to undertake a programme of archaeological excavation on land at Pineham, Upton Northamptonshire. The development area lies within a rich archaeological landscape in the Nene Valley. The earliest evidence comprised a scatter of flint tools and waste flakes occurring as residual finds in later features. In the middle to late Iron Age three discreet clusters of unenclosed activity were identified which comprised ring ditches, gullies and pits. In the 1st century AD, the late Iron Age settlement was directly replaced by a series of rectilinear ditched enclosures and fields representing a farmstead. Two ring ditches were constructed within a double ditched enclosure which directly overlay one of the Iron Age roundhouses. Occupation continued until the late 4th century and three phases of reorganisation and remodelling were identified though with a seemingly brief hiatus in the 3rd century AD when the settlement was either abandoned or sparsely occupied.