IntroductionIn addition to the journal Northamptonshire Archaeology, Northamptonshire Archaeological Society has also published occasional monographs.
The intermittent series began in 1980 with the co-publication, along with The Royal Ontario Museum, of a Third volume on the long running excavations at Fengate, Peterborough by Francis Pryor, with a Fourth volume following in 1984.
After a long hiatus, in 2004 the society published an overview of the archaeology of the county, The Archaeology of Northamptonshire, edited by Martin Tingle. The origin of this volume lay in a day school held in 1999, marking the 25th anniversary of the society. A series of contributors summarised the state of archaeological knowledge in the county to inaugurate the English Heritage initiative to create county Archaeological Resource Assessments as the first step towards producing Regional Research Agendas.
A further monograph followed in 2010, Dennis Jackson: A Northamptonshire Archaeologist, the autobiography of one of most active excavators in the county from the 1960s to the 1980s, and one of the founding members of the society.