SNN112986 - Images and GIS data from an Archaeological Evaluation of Land at Mickle Well Park, Daventry, Northamptonshire, January to February 2019

This collection comprises images and GIS data from an archaeological evaluation of land at Mickle Well Park, Daventry, Northamptonshire. This work was undertaken by Cotswold Archaeology between January and February 2019. The fieldwork comprised the excavation of one hundred and twenty trenches. A previous geophysical survey of the site identified anomalies interpreted as rectilinear enclosures, most likely indicative of Romano-British settlement. Subsequent targeted archaeological evaluation confirmed the presence of archaeological remains in the form of rectilinear enclosures, concentrated in the north-eastern part of the site. The current evaluation further recorded the remains of a settlement which forms the periphery of the previously identified Late Iron Age and Roman settlement, which was investigated in December 2013. In the current site, the remains consisted of a series of ditches and pits. The evaluation and geophysical survey results suggest that north-eastern part of the site was the main focus of settlement with parts of the remainder of the site utilised for agriculture. Medieval plough furrows, the remains of the open field system that once surrounded the village of Welton/ Daventry, were encountered across the entire site. The evaluation identified ditches and agricultural features within the remainder of the site from which material dateable to the post-medieval and modern periods was recovered. The majority of these ditches are recorded on historic mapping. The remaining field boundary ditches, furrows and land drains fit within the general alignment of the surrounding field systems depicted on historic and current Ordnance Survey mapping. The flanking ditches of two possible trackways were identified within the eastern part of the site, but remained undated. Further pits and ditches, predominantly concentrated in the eastern part of the site, could not be attributed to either the identified Iron Age, Roman or medieval to modern activity.