Chapman, A. (2004). Prehistoric palaeochannels and a ring ditch at Stanwick Quarry, Northamptonshire. Northamptonshire Archaeology 32. Vol 32, pp. 1-22. https://doi.org/10.5284/1083330. Cite this via datacite
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Prehistoric palaeochannels and a ring ditch at Stanwick Quarry, Northamptonshire | ||||||
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Northamptonshire Archaeology 32 | ||||||
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Northamptonshire Archaeology | ||||||
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1 - 22 | ||||||
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Earlier stages of mineral extraction at Stanwick Quarry had been subject to excavation and survey in the 1980s and early 1990s as part of the Raunds Area Project, which investigated an extensive and long-lived prehistoric landscape, a large area of Iron Age and Roman settlement at Stanwick and the deserted medieval village of West Cotton. In this earlier work areas near the present river channels, where the gravel was overlain by 1.0-3.0m of alluvial clays, had been excluded from extraction. The final phase of working involved the extraction of gravel from these marginal areas so that the mineral resource was fully exploited. Given the quality of the previous results, the three areas involved were subject to an archaeological watching brief between 2002 and 2004 to determine the presence of any unrecognised dry-land sites and to examine the form and development of the palaeochannel system. The work has defined further details of the palaeochannels contemporary with the Neolithic and Bronze Age monument complex. A minor channel defining the eastern edge of Irthlingborough island had silted well before the commencement of monument building in the early fourth millennium, and a number of cut-off channels had silted at various dates during the Neolithic period and the sequence has been radiocarbon dated using waterlogged wood samples. In the early/middle Bronze Age a line of oak posts had been driven into the margins of a silted oxbow channel, and a small undated ring ditch, 10.5m in diameter, has added another monument to the prehistoric landscape. | ||||||
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2004 | ||||||
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03 Nov 2020 |
