SNN117153 - Stanwick Quarry, Northamptonshire. Raunds Area Project. Assessment of the Iron Age and Roman Coinage from Stanwick

The excavations at Stanwick, Northamptonshire, were carried out by Historic England in advance of gravel extraction. Trenching covered over thirty hectares and the resulting assemblage of finds and bioarchaeological material remains the largest archaeological collection from the county. The fieldwork revealed a prehistoric ritual landscape and field systems succeeded by rural settlement dating from the early Iron Age through the Romano-British period. Activity at the villa continued into the fifth century AD. The site produced a nationally significant assemblage of 12 Iron Age and 3,730 Roman coins. This report presents the data, now structured for integration into the future project GIS, and sets outs its potential. It uses studies of selected areas to investigate variation across the site and the changing and evolving patterns of coin loss over time, and discusses wider parallels for the Temenos, constructed over a Bronze Age barrow. The study highlights the potential of these forms of analysis and demonstrate continuity and change within various Landscape Elements defined at the site.