Data from a Construction Integrated Recording at Illett's Farm, Northamptonshire, 2021-2022 (HS2 Phase One)

This collection comprises of digital photographs, vector graphics, spreadsheets, artefact assessments, and scanned site records and drawings from a construction integrated recording by Archaeological Research Services at Illett's Farm, Northamptonshire. The recording was carried out between November and December 2021.
The excavation of the L-Shaped trench picked up the presence of two north-east to south-west aligned graves, aligned parallel to a potential trackway in the unexcavated field approximately 1.2m to the north-west. One grave contained the remains of an adult female buried on her side with arms outstretched and crossed at the wrists. The other grave contained an adult female buried prone with a Romano-British pot placed by her side and a copper alloy ring on her right hand. Both graves were found in close proximity to a single post hole which did not contain dateable material.
Further boundary ditches and pits were recorded within the trench which contained Romano-British pottery and residual Late Iron Age pottery. Cutting across the top of these features was a regiment of north-west to south-east aligned plough furrows which contained residual artefacts, including neolithic flint and Romano-British pottery suggesting truncation of earlier prehistoric and Romano-British archaeology.