Muldowney, M. and Chinnock, C. (2016). Archaeological mitigation at Dallington Gateway, Harlestone Road, Northampton, August to October 2014. Northampton: MOLA Northampton. https://doi.org/10.5284/1045645. Cite this using datacite

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Title:		 Archaeological mitigation at Dallington Gateway, Harlestone Road, Northampton, August to October 2014
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Series:		 MOLA Northampton unpublished report series
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Abstract:		 Between August and October 2014 MOLA Northampton carried out archaeological mitigation on land at Dallington Gateway, Harlestone Road, Northampton. The earliest feature was a posthole dated to the late Neolithic by a small Grooved ware assemblage. A scatter of worked flint, largely residual in later features such as the pit alignment, broadly spans the early Neolithic to early Bronze Age, and suggests that the nearby causewayed enclosure acted as a focal point for activity extending up to 1.1km away from the monument. Double posthole lines forming an avenue 3m wide and at least 60m long are undated, but a Neolithic to early Bronze Age date seems most likely. Fragments of a system of shallow and narrow linear ditches may be remnants of a middle to late Bronze Age field system. Parts of a rectangular double-ditch enclosure and an adjacent circular enclosure are also undated. A 193m length of a pit alignment aligned north-west to south-east was examined, with every pit investigated. Although many pits had heavily eroded upper edges, indicating that they had slowly silted, the sharply-squared bases indicate that originally the alignment had comprised only rectangular pits. In some places the closely-spaced pits became interlinked through erosion. The small pottery assemblage from the secondary fills of the pits suggests a date at the transition from early to middle Iron Age, perhaps the mid-5th to mid-4th centuries BC.
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Author:		 M Muldowney
C Chinnock
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Publisher:		 MOLA Northampton
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Other Person/Org:		 Historic England (OASIS Reviewer)
Northamptonshire SMR (OASIS Reviewer)
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Year of Publication:		 2016
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Site: Dallington Gateway, Harlestone Road
County: Northamptonshire
District: West Northamptonshire
Parish: HARLESTONE
Country: England
Grid Reference: 471500, 263350 (Easting, Northing)
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EARLY PREHISTORIC (Historic England Periods) SHERD (Object England)
EARLY NEOLITHIC (Historic England Periods) LEAF ARROWHEADS, OTHER WORKED FLINT, FLINT AXE BUTT END (Find)
EARLY IRON AGE (Historic England Periods) SHERD (Object England)
UNCERTAIN (Historic England Periods) DOUBLE-DITCHED ENCL;OSURE, CIRCULAR ENCLOSURE (Monus)
MIDDLE BRONZE AGE (Historic England Periods) FIELD SYSTEM (Monument Type England)
EARLY IRON AGE (Historic England Periods) PIT ALIGNMENT (Monument Type England)
EARLY PREHISTORIC (Historic England Periods) POST HOLE (Monument Type England)
EXCAVATION (Event)
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OASIS Id: molanort1-237527
OBIB: 16/6
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Created Date:		 02 Feb 2018