SNN117065 - Archaeological exavation, recording and analysis on land at Pineham Barn, Upton, Site SMS 1 and SMS 2, Northamptonshire

Between July 2006 and January 2007, Northamptonshire Archaeology, now trading as MOLA, carried out an archaeological strip, map and sample (SMS) investigation on land at land at Pineham Barn, Upton. Archaeological remains dating to the Bronze Age, Iron Age and the Roman periods were present. The Bronze Age activity comprised a ring ditch, presumably a ploughed out barrow. A largely unurned middle Bronze Age cremation cemetery comprising 13 pits lay 100m to the south of it. During the early Iron Age field systems were established which were replaced during the later Iron Age by a more substantial ditched enclosure system that contained a sequence of roundhouses and associated pits. Elements of an early Roman enclosure system was situated some distance to the west, which was the continuation of a substantial Roman settlement located to the south in a previous excavation. A moderate assemblage of Bronze Age and Iron Age pottery was retrieved.