Digital Archive from an Archaeological Excavation at Saxon Rise 2, Northampton Road, Brixworth, Northamptonshire, June to October 2016

This collection comprises images, CAD, site records and database spreadsheets from programme of archaeological investigation at Saxon Rise 2, Brixworth, Northamptonshire. This work was undertaken by Cotswold Archaeology between June and October 2016 at the request of Barratt Northampton. An area of 3.44ha was excavated across the development site. Early Neolithic and Early Bronze Age pits were identified, along with ditches and pits more broadly dating from the Bronze Age to Early Iron Age. The most significant remains comprised trapezoidal and sub-circular enclosures, two possible ring ditches and extensive pitting dating to the Middle to Late Iron Age, including one pit of Middle Iron Age date, which contained a male inhumation burial. An extensive assemblage of pottery spanning these periods was recovered from a number of features, along with an unusual and significant iron metalwork hoard from a Late Iron Age pit, likely a ritual deposit. Activity continued from the Late Iron Age into the Romano-British period, shifting towards the south of the site, and was characterised by the development of an enclosure complex, probably part of a farmstead of complex form. Few post-Roman features were identified, with no evidence of occupation until the establishment of a ridge-and-furrow agricultural system in the medieval or post-medieval periods. There was evidence for a post-medieval boundary wall and possible quarry pits, along with a modern ditch, postholes and dog burials.