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Published:30/04/2025Language:EnglishPages:210, Illustrated throughout in black & white and colour.BAR Number: B693Series: BAR British Series

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Late Iron Age to Romano-British and Anglo-Saxon Settlement at Barton Seagrave, Northamptonshire

Name: Late Iron Age to Romano-British and Anglo-Saxon Settlement at Barton Seagrave, Northamptonshire
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Written by Andrew A. S. Newton, Antony R. R. Mustchin, and Julie Walker

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Excavation of this site in Barton Seagrave, Northamptonshire revealed activity of late Iron Age and early Romano-British date. The first phase of activity was defined by a semi-enclosed landscape including a number of discrete pit clusters and characteristic grain storage pits. Amongst these features was a stone-lined semi-subterranean structure that is unique in this region but has parallels in Scotland, Ireland, and northern France. The early Romano-British activity, dating to between the 1st and 2nd centuries AD, appears to represent changes to the function of the site while retaining the agricultural character.

Significant contemporary and related settlement evidence has previously been recorded at an adjacent site, but this site is of significance in its own right and displays intrinsically interesting features, not least the regionally unique semi-subterranean structure and the unusual deposition of quernstones that it contained.

About the Author

Andrew A. S. Newton works in post-excavation archaeology for Wardell Armstrong. He has written numerous journal articles and monographs about archaeological sites in Eastern England.

Antony R. R. Mustchin is a post-excavation report writer with Phoenix Consulting Archaeology Ltd. He has produced a corpus of publications through various journals and monograph series.

Julie Walker MA BSc, Osteoarchaeologist at Abbey Archaeology, has spent the last sixteen years working in archaeological fieldwork and osteoarchaeology in Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom and Ireland.

Contributors: Mark S. Blagg-Newsome, Nicholas J. Cooper, Julia E. M. Cussans, Kathren Henry, Andrew Peachey, Ruth Shaffrey, John R. Summers, Peter Thompson.

Reviews

‘High quality data with extensive and thorough reporting by artefact/ecofact specialists. The discovery of the subterranean structure and its contents is of great interest and could form the benchmark for discoveries of similar structures in the future. It deserves publishing for this one feature alone.’ Anni Byard