Iron Age, Roman and Anglo-Saxon settlement along the Empingham to Hannington pipeline in Northamptonshire and Rutland

Iron Age, Roman and Anglo-Saxon settlement along the Empingham to Hannington pipeline in Northamptonshire and Rutland /

This volume brings together reports on excavations by Northamtonshire Archaeology (now MOLA) in the south-east Midlands region. 19 sites were investigated, dating primarily to the Iron Age, Roman and Anglo-Saxon periods.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Carlyle, Simon (Author), Clarke, Jason (Author), Chapman, Andy, 1951- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd, [2017]
Series:Archaeopress archaeology.
Subjects:
Iron age > England > Northamptonshire > Antiquities.
Anglo-Saxons > England > Northamptonshire > Antiquities.
Romans > England > Northamptonshire > Antiquities.
Northamptonshire (England) > Antiquities.
Northamptonshire (England) > History > To 1500.
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Contents
  • Contributors
  • Acknowledgements
  • 1. Introduction
  • Background
  • Topography and geology
  • Excavation strategy
  • Structure of the report
  • Archive
  • Fig 1.1: Project location
  • Fig 1.2: Land relief and site locations
  • Fig 1.3: Geology and site locations
  • 2. Neolithic and Early Bronze Age (c.4000-1450BC)
  • Neolithic and early Bronze Age activity
  • Worked flint
  • 3. Middle Bronze Age to Early Iron Age (c.1450-400BC)
  • A late Bronze Age/early Iron Age pit alignment near Seaton
  • Middle Bronze Age to early Iron Age activity at Glaston
  • Fig 3.1: Seaton, the pit alignment in excavation and geophysical survey
  • Fig 3.2: Seaton, the excavated pit alignment
  • Fig 3.3: Seaton, the pit alignment, looking north-east
  • Fig 3.4: Seaton, pit 13 in the pit alignment, looking north-west (Scale 1m)
  • Fig 3.5: Glaston, Bronze Age jar from Anglo-Saxon cremation burial B13 (Scale 20mm)
  • 4. Middle to Late Iron Age (400 BC
  • 43 AD)
  • Middle to late Iron Age settlement near Seaton
  • Gullies 14, 18 and 37
  • Gully 51
  • Pit group (pits 47, 54, 72, 82 and 88)
  • Pits 40, 49, 62, 66 and 69
  • Possible ditches 75 and 84
  • Pits 77 and 80
  • Pits 5, 7, 25 and 30
  • Iron Age ditches and a cremation burial near Thorpe by Water
  • Middle to late Iron Age settlement near Caldecott
  • Ditches 73 and 38
  • Features to the south of ditch 73
  • Pit 44 and posthole 63
  • Pits and postholes to the north of ditch 73
  • Cobbled surface, 78
  • Ditches to the north of ditch 73
  • Middle to late Iron Age settlement at Swinawe Barn, Corby
  • The enclosure (ditches 22, 46 and 92)
  • The roundhouses
  • Other features
  • Late Iron Age ditches near Thorpe Malsor
  • Ditch 18
  • Ditch 52
  • Middle to late Iron Age settlement at Willows Nursery
  • Other features
  • Other linear ditches
  • The enclosure ditches, 15 and 39
  • Finds and environment evidence from the Iron Age settlements:
  • The Iron Age pottery
  • Seaton
  • Caldecott
  • Swinawe Barn, Corby
  • Fabrics
  • Forms and decoration
  • Pottery distribution
  • Chronology
  • The assemblage from Roundhouse B
  • Illustrated Iron Age pottery from Swinawe Barn (Fig 4.20)
  • Thorpe Malsor
  • Willows Nursery
  • Faunal and environmental remains from the Iron Age settlements:
  • Fired clay
  • Seaton
  • Swinawe Barn
  • Human bone
  • The animal bone
  • Methodology
  • Swinawe Barn, Corby
  • Carcass representation and butchery
  • Species representation and diet
  • Animal husbandry
  • Discussion
  • Charred plant remains
  • Swinawe Barn
  • Radiocarbon dating
  • Fig 4.1: Seaton, Iron Age settlement
  • Fig 4.2: Seaton, sections of Iron Age pits
  • Fig 4.3: Seaton, ditch 84, and pits 82 and 80, looking east (Scale 2m)
  • Fig 4.4: Thorpe by Water, Iron Age and later features
  • Fig 4.5: Caldecott, plan of Iron Age settlement (south)
  • Fig 4.6: Caldecott, plan of Iron Age settlement (north)

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