Chapman, A. (2017). An Early Neolithic enclosure near West Cotton, Raunds. Northamptonshire Archaeology 39. Vol 39, pp. 3-10. https://doi.org/10.5284/1083450. Cite this via datacite
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An Early Neolithic enclosure near West Cotton, Raunds | ||||
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Northamptonshire Archaeology 39 | ||||
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Northamptonshire Archaeology | ||||
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3 - 10 | ||||
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A major complex of Neolithic and Bronze Age monuments lying along the Nene valley between Raunds and Stanwick, was investigated in the 1980s as part of the Raunds Area Project. An outlying circular enclosure on higher ground to the east of the prehistoric monuments beneath West Cotton deserted medieval village, the Cotton ‘Henge’, was trial trenched in 1993, but a firm date was not obtained. Recent extensive trial trenching in advance of a proposed extension to the Warth Park industrial and warehouse complex provided a further opportunity to examine this enclosure. A section across the outer ditch produced primary and lower secondary fills containing quantities of mature oak charcoal. Charcoal from the primary fill has provided a radiocarbon date within the early 4th millennium, 3965–3800 Cal BC at 95% confidence. Even allowing for an old wood effect, this indicates that at least the outer enclosure, at 70–75m diameter, most probably dates to the early Neolithic. It lies directly in line with the long mound at West Cotton, with which it was broadly contemporary. More widely, it would also have been broadly contemporary with the known causewayed enclosure at Briar Hill, Northampton and a newly discovered causewayed enclosure east of Wellingborough, both of which also lie on the slopes of the Nene valley. The smaller inner enclosure, which may have enclosed a mound, as well the flint scatter across the surrounding slopes, probably date to the late Neolithic to early Bronze Age, so that, like the rest of the Raunds monument complex, there was use and reuse throughout the Neolithic and early Bronze Age. | ||||
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03 Nov 2020 |
