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

Includes bibliographical references.

This volume brings together reports on excavations by Northamtonshire Archaeology (now MOLA) in the south-east Midlands region. 19 sites were investigated, dating primarily to the Iron Age, Roman and Anglo-Saxon periods.

Specialized.

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Front Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction -- Background -- Topography and geology -- Excavation strategy -- Structure of the report -- Archive -- Fig 1.1: Project location -- Fig 1.2: Land relief and site locations -- Fig 1.3: Geology and site locations -- 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 -- Fig 3.1: Seaton, the pit alignment in excavation and geophysical survey -- Fig 3.2: Seaton, the excavated pit alignment -- Fig 3.3: Seaton, the pit alignment, looking north-east -- Fig 3.4: Seaton, pit 13 in the pit alignment, looking north-west (Scale 1m) -- Fig 3.5: Glaston, Bronze Age jar from Anglo-Saxon cremation burial B13 (Scale 20mm) -- 4. Middle to Late Iron Age (400 BC -- 43 AD) -- Middle to late Iron Age settlement near Seaton -- Gullies 14, 18 and 37 -- Gully 51 -- Pit group (pits 47, 54, 72, 82 and 88)

Pits 40, 49, 62, 66 and 69 -- Possible ditches 75 and 84 -- 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 -- Cobbled surface, 78 -- Ditches to the north of ditch 73 -- 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 -- Other features -- Other linear ditches -- The enclosure ditches, 15 and 39 -- Finds and environment evidence from the Iron Age settlements: -- The Iron Age pottery -- Seaton -- Caldecott -- Swinawe Barn, Corby -- Fabrics -- Forms and decoration -- Pottery distribution -- Chronology -- The assemblage from Roundhouse B -- Illustrated Iron Age pottery from Swinawe Barn (Fig 4.20) -- Thorpe Malsor -- Willows Nursery -- Faunal and environmental remains from the Iron Age settlements: -- Fired clay -- Seaton -- Swinawe Barn

Human bone -- The animal bone -- Methodology -- Swinawe Barn, Corby -- Carcass representation and butchery -- Species representation and diet -- Animal husbandry -- Discussion -- Charred plant remains -- Swinawe Barn -- Radiocarbon dating -- Fig 4.1: Seaton, Iron Age settlement -- Fig 4.2: Seaton, sections of Iron Age pits -- Fig 4.3: Seaton, ditch 84, and pits 82 and 80, looking east (Scale 2m) -- Fig 4.4: Thorpe by Water, Iron Age and later features -- Fig 4.5: Caldecott, plan of Iron Age settlement (south) -- Fig 4.6: Caldecott, plan of Iron Age settlement (north)

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