Northamptonshire Archaeology

The county archaeological journal Northamptonshire Archaeology, includes reports on fieldwork, excavations and other discoveries in the County.  Financial support for publication comes from commercial archaeology.

Contributions are welcome from anyone with an interest in Northamptonshire's past.  It is distributed nationally and internationally and every member of NAS with a current subscription receives a free copy of the journal.

From Volume 35, 2008, the journal moved to A4 format and digital printing, making possible the direct insertion of colour photographs and colour plans.

If you are planning to contribute to the next volume please read "Notes For Contributors" (pdf, 241kB).

Tables of Contents, with abstracts, are available for the following volumes:

Volume 42

2023

Introduction: An Iron Age special edition

Andy Chapman
[pp 1 - 6]

Hunsbury Hillfort, Northampton: A Typological and Metallurgical Study of the Non‑Ferrous Metalwork
Ian Barnes
The report revisits the work undertaken by the author in 1985 as part of their postgraduate study and looks in detail at the non-ferrous metalwork recovered during a watching brief on ironstone quarrying on the site of Hunsbury hillfort in the 19th century....

Volume 41

2021

Introduction: The archaeology of medieval Northampton
Andy Chapman
[pp 1 - 3]

Brave New World: Northampton Development Corporation and Archaeology 1970-85
John H Williams
In 1968 Northampton was designated an area of considerable expansion under the New Towns Act of 1946, with the Master Plan for development being approved in 1970....

Volume 40

2019

Introduction: past, present and future
Andy Chapman
[pp 1 - 4]

The Brumut Hills: two Neolithic long barrows near Flore
Jim Brown
Two Neolithic long barrows of the Cotswold-Severn type were confirmed by geophysical and trial trench investigation, supported by fieldwalking, to the north of Flore, Northamptonshire....

Volume 39

2017

Introduction
Andy Chapman
[pp 1-2]

An Early Neolithic enclosure near West Cotton, Raunds
Andy Chapman
A major complex of Neolithic and Bronze Age monuments lying along the Nene valley between Raunds and Stanwick, was investigated in the 1980s as part of the Raunds Area Project....

Volume 38

2015

Introduction to Volume 38: 40th Anniversary Issue
Andy Chapman
In 1974 the newly formed Northamptonshire Archaeological Society published its first full journal, labelled volume 9 as it was the successor to a sequence of eight bulletins, published between 1966 and 1973 by the Federation of Northamptonshire Archaeological Societies....

Volume 35

2008

The publication of Northamptonshire Archaeology
Andy Chapman
[pp....

Volume 34

2006

The Future for our Past: Publication and Archaeology
Andy Chapman
[pp....

Volume 33

2005

A Bronze Age Ring Ditch at Earls Barton quarry, Northamptonshire
Christopher Jones and Andy Chapman
An archaeological watching brief was carried out at the southern extension at Earls Barton Quarry....

Volume 32

2004

Prehistoric palaeochannels and a ring ditch at Stanwick Quarry, Northamptonshire
Andy Chapman
Earlier stages of mineral extraction at Stanwick Quarry had been subject to excavation and survey in the 1980s and early 1990s as part of the Raunds Area Project, which investigated an extensive and long-lived prehistoric landscape, a large area of Iron Age and Roman settlement at Stanwick and the deserted medieval village of West Cotton....

Volume 31

2003

Three Bronze Age burial sites in Northamptonshire
Andy Chapman
Sites at Irchester quarry, Brackmills Link Road, Northampton and Marsh Lane, Irthlingborough, investigated as part of separate developer funded projects, have produced evidence of Bronze Age burial in the form of ring ditches of former round barrows of early Bronze Age date....

Volume 30

2002

Middle Iron Age occupation at Mawsley New Village, Cransley Lodge, Kettering, Northamptonshire
Graham Hull and Steve Preston
A series of middle Iron Age circular structures comprising an unenclosed occupation site with at least two phases of activity, were radio-carbon dated to a period between the 4th and the 1st centuries BC....

Volume 29

2000-2001

Excavation of an Iron Age Settlement and a Middle Saxon Cemetery at Great Houghton, Northampton, 1996
Andy Chapman et al....

Volume 27

1996-1997

The Excavation of Neolithic and Medieval Mounds at Tansor Crossroads, Northamptonshire, 1995
Andy Chapman
Two of a group of three circular mounds set on a spur of high ground overlooking the valley of the river Nene at Tansor, Northamptonshire, were partially excavated prior to a road improvement scheme....