REVIEW BY MIKE SHAW
Northamptonshire is a county rich in archaeological remains, many of them discovered along the Nene Valley in the south of the county. Hence the present volume is valuable in looking at a transect of land in the north of Northamptonshire. The work was carried out along a 6.5km/4-mile corridor of land close to Corby, prior to road development. Archaeological features dating from the Bronze Age through to the middle Saxon period were discovered, including early Bronze Age funerary and domestic features, a middle Bronze Age flat cremation cemetery, and middle Iron Age to early Roman farmsteads and enclosures. Subsequently there was a hiatus in settlement features along the corridor until the 5th-8th centuries AD when an early-middle Saxon settlement was uncovered, which included a weaving house and evidence for iron-smelting and -processing.
The report includes a detailed discussion of the evidence from all periods, placing it in the context of discoveries elsewhere in Northamptonshire and its wider region, many of them from recent excavations, which forms a useful introduction for those unfamiliar with the material.
Stephen Morris, Simon Markus, and Jim Brown
Archaeopress, £55 (pbk) or £16 (eBook)
ISBN 978-1803276069
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David Jacques
Oxbow, £34.95
ISBN 978-1914427350
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