Iron Age, Roman and Anglo-Saxon settlement along the Empingham to Hannington pipeline in Northamptonshire and Rutland / Simon Carlyle, Jason Clarke and Andy Chapman.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Carlyle, Simon, author.

Contributor:

• Clarke, Jason, 1969- editor.
• Chapman, Andy, 1951- editor.

Series:

• Archaeopress archaeology.
• Archaeopress archaeology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Northamptonshire (England)--Antiquities.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (148 pages) : illustrations, maps.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd, [2017]

Summary:

Reports on excavations by Northamtonshire Archaeology (now MOLA) in the south-east Midlands region; Nineteen sites were investigated, dating primarily to the Iron Age, Roman and Anglo-Saxon periods.

Contents:

• Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction
• Background
• Topography and geology
• Excavation strategy
• Structure of the report
• Archive
• 2. Neolithic and Early Bronze Age (c.4000-1450BC)
• Neolithic and early Bronze Age activity
• Worked flint
• 3. Middle Bronze Age to Early Iron Age (c.1450-400BC)
• A late Bronze Age/early Iron Age pit alignment near Seaton
• Middle Bronze Age to early Iron Age activity at Glaston
• 4. Middle to Late Iron Age (400 BC
• 43 AD)
• Middle to late Iron Age settlement near Seaton
• Possible ditches 75 and 84
• Gully 51
• Gullies 14, 18 and 37
• Pit group (pits 47, 54, 72, 82 and 88)
• Pits 40, 49, 62, 66 and 69
• Pits 77 and 80
• Pits 5, 7, 25 and 30
• Iron Age ditches and a cremation burial near Thorpe by Water
• Middle to late Iron Age settlement near Caldecott
• Ditches 73 and 38
• Features to the south of ditch 73
• Pit 44 and posthole 63
• Pits and postholes to the north of ditch 73
• Ditches to the north of ditch 73
• Cobbled surface, 78
• Middle to late Iron Age settlement at Swinawe Barn, Corby
• The enclosure (ditches 22, 46 and 92)
• The roundhouses
• Other features
• Late Iron Age ditches near Thorpe Malsor
• Ditch 18
• Ditch 52
• Middle to late Iron Age settlement at Willows Nursery
• The enclosure ditches, 15 and 39
• Other linear ditches
• Finds and environment evidence from the Iron Age settlements
• The Iron Age pottery
• Seaton
• Caldecott
• Swinawe Barn, Corby
• Fabrics
• Forms and decoration
• Pottery distribution
• The assemblage from Roundhouse B
• Chronology
• Illustrated Iron Age pottery from Swinawe Barn (Fig 4.20)
• Thorpe Malsor
• Willows Nursery
• Fired clay
• Swinawe Barn
• Faunal and environmental remains from the Iron Age settlements
• Human bone
• The animal bone
• Methodology
• Carcass representation and butchery
• Species representation and diet
• Animal husbandry
• Discussion
• Charred plant remains
• Radiocarbon dating
• 5. Roman Settlement (AD43
• AD450)
• Late Roman settlement at Glaston
• Roman settlement
• Ditch 34
• Roman activity near Seaton
• A Roman enclosure and cremation burials near Gretton
• The Roman enclosure
• Roman cremation burials
• A Roman pit at Swinawe Barn, Corby
• Roman enclosures at Rushton
• The enclosure: ditches 12 and 21
• The droveway: gullies 5 and 7
• Gullies 9 and 17
• A Roman ditch system at Violet Lane
• Roman settlement near Thorpe Malsor
• Earlier features, ditches 61, 63 and 128 and pit 67
• The major ditch systems
• Pebbled surface 131
• The pit group
• Other pits/postholes 74, 105 and 121
• Roman settlement at White Hill Lodge
• A ditched enclosure system
• Droveway: ditches 35 and 41
• Roman settlement near Great Cransley
• Ditch 25
• Enclosure 1
• Enclosure 2: ditches 13 and 17
• Enclosure 3: ditch 11
• The trackway: ditches 40 and 31/36
• Enclosure 4: ditch 44
• Colluvium 58
• Finds from the Roman settlement
• Roman pottery
• The Roman pottery from Thorpe Malsor (Figs 5.21-5.22)
• Selected assemblages
• Ditch 39 (part of ditch system with ditches 12 and 94, see below)
• Ditch 94 (part of ditch system with ditches 12, see above, and 39)
• Ditch 112 (part of ditch system with ditches 72, 139, 117 and 145)
• Ditch 117 (part of ditch system with ditches 72, 112, 139 and 145)
• Ditch 139 (part of ditch system with ditches 72, 112, 117 and 145)
• Ditch 145 (part of ditch system with ditches 72, 112, 139 and 117)
• Ditch 150 (north end of site, aligned west-east)
• Pit 4
• Illustrated vessels (Figs 5.21 and 5.22)
• Cross-feature joins
• Samian ware
• The Roman pottery from Great Cransley (Fig 5.23)
• Selected Assemblages
• Ditch 11, Enclosure 3, southern arm (same as ditch 23)
• Ditch 17 (Enclosure 2, southern arm)
• Ditch 23 (Enclosure 3, southern arm, same as ditch 7)
• Ditch 52 (late boundary, cutting trackway ditches, eastern side)
• Pit 29, Enclosure 2
• Illustrated vessels (Fig 5.23)
• Other sites
• Roman fired clay and ceramic building material
• Gretton Road
• Rushton
• White Hill Lodge
• Great Cransley
• Roman querns
• Other Roman finds
• Glaston
• Coins
• Copper alloy objects
• Copper casting debris
• Iron
• Lead
• Worked bone
• Glass
• Faunal and environmental remains from the Roman settlements
• Cremation burials from Gretton Road
• Infant burial from Thorpe Malsor
• The burial of infants during the Roman period in Britain
• Animal bone
• Conclusions
• 6. Anglo-Saxon burial and settlement (AD450-650)
• An Anglo-Saxon cremation cemetery at Glaston
• Anglo-Saxon activity at Rushton
• Finds from the Anglo-Saxon cemetery and other sites
• Anglo-Saxon pottery
• Fabric
• Chronology and decorative symbolism
• The undecorated urns and other vessels
• Burial B4 (SF3)
• Burial B5 (SF4)
• Burial B6 (SF7)
• Burial B8 (SF6)
• Burial B12 (SF11)
• Burial B14 (SF16)
• Burial B18
• Burial B20 (SF13)
• Pit 40
• Pit 48 (SF 17)
• Topsoil (1)
• Field 15:07 (5), SFB
• Pit 30
• Pit 32
• Catalogue of illustrated Anglo-Saxon pottery
• The decorated urns
• Burial B7 (SF5) (Figs 6.11, 2 & 6.13)
• Burial B9 (SF8) (Fig 6.12, 10)
• Burial B11 (SF10) (Fig 6.12, 7-9 & 6.14 a, b & c)
• Burial B16 (SF 15) (Figs 6.2; 6.11, 1; 6.15 & 6.16)
• Other Anglo-Saxon pottery
• Subsoil (2)
• Ditch 10 (Fig 6.9, 6)
• Anglo-Saxon pottery from a watching brief, Field 15:07/4
• Other Anglo-Saxon finds
• Burial B6 (adult, sex unknown)
• Burial B7 (juvenile, 4-5 years, sex unknown)
• Burial B9 (juvenile, greater than 10 years old, sex unknown)
• Burial B11 (adult and juvenile, sex unknown)
• Burial B12 (adult, 15-18 years, sex unknown)
• Burial B13 (adult, sex unknown)
• Burial B14 (adult, sex unknown)
• Burial B16 (adult, probably female)
• The beads
• Human bone from the Anglo-Saxon cemetery
• Fragmentation, completeness and elemental representation
• Pyre conditions
• Demography
• Sex
• Pathology
• 7. Medieval and post-medieval field systems
• A field boundary wall and furrows at Normanton Road
• A boundary ditch and furrows at Seaton
• A ditch and furrows near Thorpe by Water
• A stone drain and furrows at Caldecott
• Boundary ditches and furrows at Swinawe Barn, Corby
• Furrows at other sites
• Finds of medieval and post-medieval date
• Medieval and post-medieval finds
• Cransley
• Post-medieval floor tiles
• 8. Discussion
• Project objectives
• The late Bronze Age/early Iron Age pit alignment near Seaton
• The Iron Age landscape
• The Roman rural landscape
• The early Anglo-Saxon cremation cemetery at Glaston
• Medieval and post-medieval field systems
• Bibliography.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

• 9781784915353
• 1784915351