Northamptonshire Archaeology 20

Gives an introduction to the Project's objectives and scope, dealing with landscape history from early prehistoric to medieval

A rectangular mortuary enclosure with façade (a square barrow) was associated with a group of thirty-seven Grimston ware vessels and some wares related to Mildenhall type, with some Beaker. A Bronze Age pit complex and six ring ditches, some originally with mounds, also appear funerary. The site, in a woodland clearing, is discussed in its Nene Valley context, with reports on the environmental evidence, inhumations and cremations, and animal bones.

Excavations in 1963 and 1966 revealed an Iron Age enclosed settlement of circular buildings, probably for mixed farming, and pottery with curvilinear decoration. During second half 1st century this settlement was succeeded by a flimsy romanized building nearby. A series of stone-based Roman agricultural buildings, including a long barn with massive circular stone post-bases along its spine, was built over the earlier settlement. A bronze-melting hearth followed, set among rubble. Mosaic debris points to late Roman modifications nearby.