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Northamptonshire Archaeology 19
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Title:
Northamptonshire Archaeology 19
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Series:
Northamptonshire Archaeology
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19
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Journal
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Editor:
A E Brown
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Northamptonshire Archaeological Society
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Year of Publication:
1984
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03 Nov 2020
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Preliminaries and contents
A E Brown
1 - 2
Excavations in The Riding, Northampton, in the area of Gobion Manor, 1981-2: Microfiche
John H Williams
1 - 86
Excavations on a medieval site at Derngate, Northampton: Microfiche
Michael Shaw
1 - 57
The excavation of a Bronze Age barrow at Earls Barton, Northants
Dennis A Jackson
3 - 30
A previously unrecorded bell barrow, surviving as a low mound on the flood plain of the River Nene, was excavated in the winter months of 1981 before its destruction by gravel quarrying. A scatted of cremated bones, in apparent association with a bronze ogival dagger, was the only evidence of burial. The barrow was significant and controversial, as it was the first in the country to produce radiocarbon dates for the Bronze Age Wessex Culture. An extensive area of burning produced wood charcoal dated to 1220bc +/- 50 and 1260bc +/- 60. At the time these dates were deemed to be unacceptably late, although with the subsequent recognition of the need for calibration the resultant dates, spanning 1530-1410CalBC, place the activity at the very end of the Early Bronze Age.
Irchester Roman town: excavations 1981-2
Dave Windell
31 - 52
Rescue excavations in connection with the widening of the A45 Road at Irchester Roman town were carried out between November 1981 and March 1982, Evidence of occupation of the late 2nd and 3rd centuries AD was found at the eastern extremity of the extra-mural settlement. Extensive trial trenching and watching brief work did not locate any significant occupation elsewhere within the threatened area, suggesting that extra-mural settlement was limited to ribbon-pattern development along the roads. Re-examination of the defensive system at the south-west corner of the walled area revealed three ditches, which were backfilled in the later Roman period.
Three Anglo-Saxon burials from Alwalton, Cambridgeshire
M D Howe
53 - 61
Three Anglo-Saxon cremation burials were uncovered in July 1975 during excavation for a water pipeline. Each bone deposit was within a decorated pottery urn and these are described and illustrated.
Excavations on a medieval site at Derngate, Northampton
Michael Shaw
63 - 82
Excavation on the site of the old bus station, Derngate, was undertaken in 1980 by Northampton Development Corporation, to establish the date and nature of occupation in this area which lies within the medieval town defences but outside the Late Saxon town. There was a lack of Early-Middle Saxon pottery and a single pit contained Late Saxon pottery dating to the 11th century. A large ironstone quarry had been backfilled by the end of the 12th century. The earliest evidence for a building on the site was a foundation trench dated to the 12th-13th centuries. More definite evidence for occupation comes in the 13th-14th centuries, with rubbish pits. Two circular stone ovens and a stone trough date to the 13th-15th centuries, and were overlaid by a series of clay floors and occupation levels. On the Derngate frontage there had been buildings with stone foundations and clay floors also from the 13th -15th centuries. In the 16th century, a post-in-trench structure seems likely to have been a workshop or shed, and this form of construction at this late date might be a reflection of the poorer class of building on the Swan Street frontage.
Excavations in The Riding, Northampton, in the area of Gobion Manor, 1981-2
C Farwell
John H Williams
83 - 106
It was hoped that excavation immediately to the south of the Riding, a street that probably came into being late in the post-medieval period, would locate the documented Gobion Manor. Twenty sherds of pottery suggest some pre-Conquest activity, with pits and postholes dated from 1100 to post-1470, and two wall foundations of indeterminate but probable medieval date. A heavy stone foundation, at least 1m deep, has an outside wall around the three surviving sides with a pitched stone surface within resembling a hearth base, although there was no burning. To the south was a stone-lined well. Limited pottery suggests a 16th-century date. There were subsequent areas of metalling, with associated finds indicating that these were laid shortly before or after AD1600.
Northamptonshire Archaeological bibliography 1984
A E Brown
107
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