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across Gregory Street to the north. It is first recorded in the 12th
Century btit the parish.wat incorporated into All Saints pariah in the
16th 'Century and the éhùrch itself converted into a freé-school., The
free-school was largely. demolished in the 19th. Century When warehouses
were built. 'St Gregory't as PreViously suspected can now almoat certainly
be.shown to'have its Origins in the Saxon_ period.
BRIGSTOCK, Iron Age Earthwork - D.A. Jackson, Northamptonshire County
Council
A rescue excavation mas undertaken in the autumn of 1979 on:a air.-
cular earthwork under plough threat, one.of several located 1 miles
south-west of13rigstock on a spur of highground in an arta of chalky,
boulderelay.
AlthOugh a sMall amount of Iron Age 'pottery hadbeen found in the
area, the precise date and function of the earthworks wat not known prior
to the excavation; one low mound had been recorded as a barrow.- The field
in which the earthworks occur Was formerly part of a medieval park and it
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was'hoped that the plough damage was only a recent phenomenon.
The.eastern half of the enclosure Was eXcaVated revealing A continuous
ditch two:m deep, enélosing an internal. area c 30 m in diameter; there
Was also evidence for .a wide internal bank. Within the enclosed area a .
single.round hut, 7 m in diaieter was found close to the bank on the south
side. The uter wall of the hut was oùtlined by a narrow wall plot with
sùbstantial post holes at the entrance. The hut. was encircled by a drainage
gully Which in itt earliest-phase was continuous, Aeviating at the .
entrance to enclose a possible porch. In a later phase the gully was interrupted
by a stone path, 2.m. wide which extended eastwards from:the:
entrance:of the hut to a gap-in the bank, and presumably to.a bridge a-
cross the ditéh.. The dating of the'features was to the late'pre-Belgic
Iron Age.
Alnùmber,of Iron Age featùres was unéovered that Pre-Aated the enclosure,
whilst evidence of earlier prehistoric occupation was tuggested
by the recovery of worked flints, inCluding a barbed-and-tanged arrowhead.
This may indicate a relatively lengthy period of prehistoric occupation on
the Boulder Clay in this area.
A45 NEW ROAD ARCHAEOLOGICAL PROJECT - D. Windell, Northamptonshire County
Council
Introduction
. The principal object Of the archaeological project was to locate,
identify and record sites which were threatened by the construction of
the A45 New Road. Preliminary surveys from:the air and, on the ground ;
identified a number of sites of. different periodt which were threatened'.
Those of the west of Ecton were, however, to be preserved under the embanked
sections of the road whilst those to the east would be destroyed
by cuttings. Extensive geophysical survey, using a magnetometer, indi-.
cated that three major sites were to be affected by road construction.
These were an Iron Age emélosure, part of very extensiVe-settlement remains
at Clay Lane (south west of Earls Barton), A DMV at Barton ThOrpe
(south eaSt of Earls Barton) and another Iron Age enclosure in the parish
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