Prehistoric

Hampshire

Bellamy, P S, 1991 (1992) The investigation of the prehistoric landscape along the route of the A303 road improvement between Andover, Hampshire and Amesbury, Wiltshire 1984-1987, Proc Hampshire Fld Club Archaeol Soc, 47, 5-81
Limited archaeological work revealed the north side of an Iron Age enclosure occupied from the fifth to the first centuries BC, and several sets of field systems. Both wet and dry soils had been cultivated, grain stored and processed, stock reared (also butchered and skinned), local and non-local pottery used, and textiles produced. Extensive linear boundary systems, where datable, were of probable middle to late Bronze Age construction in a well-established landscape.

Oliver, Mary, 1992 Excavation of an Iron Age and Romano-British settlement site at Oakridge, Basingstoke, Hampshire, 1965-6, Proc Hampshire Fld Club Archaeol Soc, 48, 55-94
Observation and some excavation over two years revealed a large site with pits, enclosure ditches, field boundaries and a well. Finds suggest occupation from early/middle Iron Age to the 4th century AD, possibly continuous. A well was completely excavated to 26.67m.

Rees, Helen, et al, 1993 Later Bronze Age and Early Iron Age settlement in the lower Test valley: evidence from excavations and finds 1981-9, Proc Hampshire Fld Club Archaeol Soc, 49, 19-46
Two decades of small excavations and watching briefs have produced evidence of occupation of later Bronze Age and early Iron Age periods, particularly in the Nursling and Romsey areas. Metalwork, pottery, querns, and other finds are reported.

Lincolnshire

French, C A I, et al 1994 Excavation of the Deeping St Nicholas barrow complex, South Lincolnshire, Lincolnshire Archaeology and Heritage Reports Ser, 1
Excavation revealed a complex sequence: a Neolithic occupation layer was succeeded by a very early Bronze Age pit inhumation of a young child surrounded by up to nine rings of concentric stakes, closely followed by an early Bronze Age revetted and ditched barrow. Shortly afterwards a perimeter trench was cut and set with posts and a further inhumation, a female with jet beads, was inserted, to be followed by a male inhumation. Further remodellings included the addition of two cists, each with cremations inside and a Deverel-Rimbury cremation outside. After further cremations, the mound was left to be engulfed by peat during the later Bronze Age. By later medieval times drainage allowed an arable field system to be set out here. this needs cutting

London

Bazeley, R, Green, C and McGregor, D, 1991 Excavation of an early prehistoric site at Creffield Road, Acton, Trans London Middlesex Archaeol Soc, 42, 17-31
Excavation close to John Allen Brown's 1885 `working floor' recovered a Levallois flake and some Mesolithic or even later artefacts, and also allowed a detailed geological investigation of the site.

Grimes, W F, and Close-Brooks, J, 1993 The excavation of Caesar's Camp, Heathrow, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, 1944, Proc Prehist Soc, 59, 303-60
The definitive account of Grimes's excavations of the rectangular earthwork at Heathrow Airport has refined his interpretations: it is now seen that a late Bronze Age occupation (attested by pottery scatters) was followed by 11 middle Iron Age round houses and a couple of ?late Iron Age features. The rectangular building, of middle or late Iron Age, remains unique in Britain but is like some Romano-Celtic temples.

Northamptonshire

Audouy, M, 1993/4 Excavations at Berry Hill Close, Culworth, Northamptonshire, 1992, Northamptonshire Archaeol, 25, 47-62
The work revealed the remains of a middle Iron Age enclosure; virtually no features survived above the natural Ironstone. Pottery recovered ranged from Iron Age (in the ditch) and Romano-British through to medieval in the fossil ploughsoil over the enclosure.

Jackson, Dennis, 1993/4 The Iron Age hillfort at Borough Hill, Daventry: excavations in 1983,Northamptonshire Archaeol, 25, 63-7
Limited excavation in advance of radio station works revealed traces of middle Iron Age occupation of uncertain nature at the southern end of the hillfort, and evidence for more than one defensive ditch in this area.

Jackson, Dennis, 1993/4 Excavation of the hillfort defences at Hunsbury, Northampton, in 1952 and 1988, Northamptonshire Archaeol, 25, 5-20
Two rampart cuttings were made by Richard Atkinson in 1952 and the present author investigated an eroded portion of rampart in 1988. The early rampart incorporated stone from the ditch and was timber-revetted at the rear, possibly initially free-standing with a box structure added later, only to be superseded by a rampart of probable glacis form. Severely burnt stone was probably reused from the box rampart. Quarrying and erosion had lessened the information derivable, but a little pottery of early to middle Iron Age date, together with three radiocarbon dates, suggest construction in eighth to fourth centuries BC, with the main occupation (and perhaps the glacis) dating to second/first century BC.

Jackson, Dennis, 1993/4 Iron Age and Anglo-Saxon settlement and activity around the Hunsbury hillfort, Northampton, Northamptonshire Archaeol, 25, 35-46
Watching briefs and limited rescue excavation in the 1980s revealed intense Iron Age and Anglo-Saxon activity on a number of sites in the area. Unfinished iron objects from the Hunsbury ironstone quarry (1870--1920) suggest that ironworking and trading may have been important in the Iron Age economy of the region. Anglo-Saxon activity was attested by pottery, inhumations, and a small iron-smelting furnace.

Shropshire

Hughes, Evan Gwilym, 1994 An Iron Age barrow burial at Bromfield, Shropshire, Proc Prehist Soc, 60, 395-402
A small ring-ditch produced rare evidence for an Iron Age inhumation burial associated with a barrow. The inhumation survived as a soil stain only in this gravel site, but was associated with fragments of a La Tène I iron brooch, a penannular iron bracelet with adhering textiles, and a bronze pendant, suggesting a fifth to fourth century BC date.

Suffolk

Martin, Edward, et al, 1993 Settlements on hill-tops: seven prehistoric sites in Suffolk, E Anglian Archaeol,65
Reports an Iron Age enclosure at Barnham; two first millennium BC settlement sites at Barham; hill-top settlements at Great Bealings, Martlesham, and Little Bealings; and one at Framlingham.

Warwickshire

Cracknell, Stephen and Hingley, Richard, et al, 1993/4 Park Farm, Barford: excavation of a prehistoric settlement site, 1988, Trans Birmingham Warwickshire Archaeol Soc, 98, 1-30
Flints, pottery and a radiocarbon date indicate the earlier prehistoric period, but the first structural traces are of Late Bronze Age date (linear ditch). A mid to late Bronze Age enclosure contained two hut circles and a penannular gully. Occupation had ceased by about AD 50 but Roman and medieval sherds and ridge-and-furrow show agricultural use.

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