SNN112568 - Archaeological mitigation works at Stanton Cross Flood Relief Area 5 Wellingborough, Northamptonshire January-October 2020: Post-Excavation Assessment and Updated Project Design

MOLA (Museum of London Archaeology) was commissioned to undertake mitigation works on land at Stanton Cross, Wellingborough, comprising two excavation areas. The western SMS area uncovered a late Bronze Age pit and an early Roman landscape boundary and pit, whilst the eastern mitigation area investigated an enclosed middle Iron Age settlement, comprising a number of enclosures, ring-ditches and pit groups within a series of shifting boundary ditches, as well as an early Roman enclosure system, probably related to the hinterland of the nearby Roman town at Irchester. Also identified during excavations were isolated Neolithic pits, Bronze Age funerary remains and a single Saxon sunken featured building.