Site Images and Data from an Archaeological Evaluation at Knotwood Farm Fields, Old Stratford, Northamptonshire, 2015

This collection comprises site data (images and CAD) from an archaeological evaluation which was undertaken by Cotswold Archaeology in October 2015 at Knotwood Fields Farm, Northamptonshire. The evaluation was undertaken to inform a planning application to South Northamptonshire Council for the development of a solar farm. The fieldwork comprised the excavation of fourteen trenches. The evaluation recorded a number of curvilinear ditches, which most likely represent small enclosures and a roundhouse. Pottery dating from the Iron Age was recovered from the silted fills of these ditches. Broadly contemporaneous boundary ditches, containing pottery dating to the Iron Age, were also identified. There was a good correlation between the evaluation and the geophysical survey results, although there were a small number of archaeological features which had not been detected by the survey, as well as limited geophysical anomalies which were not found to correspond to below-ground archaeological remains.