Data from Fieldwalking and Construction Integrated Recording at Field 18, Versions Farm, Radstone, West Northamptonshire, 2021-2022 (HS2 Phase One)
High Speed Two Ltd., Archaeological Research Services Ltd, 2025. https://doi.org/10.5284/1129318. How to cite using this DOI
- HS2 Phase One: London to West Midlands Historic Environment Digital Archive
- Data From Fieldwalking and Construction Integrated Recording of Flint Scatters in No-Data (Blank) Areas C23, Overview and Data, 2021-2022 (HS2 Phase One)
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- DOI:https://doi.org/10.5284/1129318
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Introduction
Project Summary
This collection comprises images, site records, reports, GIS and vector data, and a harris matrix for fieldwalking and construction integrated recording at Field 18, Versions Farm, Radstone, West Northamptonshire. This work was undertaken by Archaeological Research Services Ltd between August 2021 and May 2022.
Area C30067, Versions Farm, produced a prehistoric pit sealed below colluvium infilling a dry valley and cut down from within a buried palaeosol layer. In the overlying colluvial deposits, three inhumations were discovered together with other pits and small finds. A geoarchaeological section was cut across the valley side of the excavation site revealing a complex history of site development from the Late Glacial through to the present. The palaeosol has potential to inform on past landscape formation, vegetation, and was an important chronostratigraphic marker for when the onset of mass colluviation took place.
Re-use value
The archive forms part of the archaeological investigative work undertaken ahead of the construction of the HS2. All of the files contained within the archive are suitable for reuse as they are in standard, easily accessible formats, in line with the FAIR principles. The archive may be looked at in conjunction with other archives to further add depth and context to the works (including the evaluation trenching phase of works on this site). All specialist reporting was taken to assessment stage, therefore there is potential for further analysis.
