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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.
Bronze Age, Iron Age, Roman, and Saxon settlements along the route of the A43 Corby Link Road
Stephen Morris, Simon Markus, and Jim Brown
Archaeopress, £55 (pbk) or £16 (eBook)
ISBN 978-1803276069
Just Out and Coming Soon
Tudor and Stuart Royal Gardens
David Jacques
Oxbow, £34.95
ISBN 978-1914427350
Medieval Bridges of Middle England
Marshall G Hall
Windgather Press, £45
ISBN 978-1914427299
50 Objects from Vindolanda
Barbara Birley and Elizabeth M Greene
Amberley, £15.99
ISBN 978-1398116580
From an Ancient Eden to a New Frontier: an archaeological journey along the Carlisle Northern Development Route
Fraser Brown et al.
Oxford Archaeology North, £65
ISBN 978-1907686399
Blue/Green Glass Bottles from Roman Britain
H E M Cool
Archaeopress, £50
ISBN 978-1803277431
Cattle, Community, and Place: the archaeology of the Cambridge Biomedical Campus
Jonathan Tabor and Tom Phillips
McDonald Institute for Archaeological
Research, £45
ISBN 978-1913344184
Carmarthenshire’s Military Heritage
Dean Hollands
Amberley, £15.99
ISBN 978-1398116764
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