Iron Age, Roman and Anglo-Saxon settlement along the Empingham to Hannington pipeline in Northamptonshire and Rutland / Simon Carlyle, Jason Clarke and Andy Chapman.
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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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)