NASNEWS Newsletter of the Archaeological Society Website: www.northants-archaeology.org.uk

December 2020

NAS AGM and PUBLIC LECTURE public lecture The AGM will be followed by a public lecture by committee member Brian Giggins. Monday, 18 January 2021 Historic town buildings The NAS Annual General Meeting will be held online via ZOOM, so I’m afraid you will have of Northamptonshire to arrange your own tea/coffee and biscuits. Details of how to log in to the AGM will be distributed to anyone who has registered in advance by email to [email protected], and Brian Giggins, who is hosting the link, will send out invitations with a link to join. NAS AGM Chair: Mike Curtis Officers’ reports Statement of accounts Election of Hon. Officers and other members Welsh House, Market Square, of Council. The following are all willing to Town buildings are a challenging subject for stand for re-election: the building historian; each generation of Andy Chapman: Secretary, Editor and owners and occupiers leave their mark in the Treasurer way of changes until there is often little left Rob Atkins: Meetings Secretary of the original fabric. Mark Holmes: NAS NEWS editor Pat Chapman: Membership Secretary There is often an abundance of Other members of council: documentation relating to towns but Mike Curtis, Graham Cadman, Steven discovering those documents relating to a Hollowell, Brian Giggins, Roy Friendship- single building is often very difficult. Taylor, Adam Sutton The towns of Northamptonshire contain some Anyone wishing to join the committee to help interesting examples of buildings ranging the Society running, and who can bring back to at least the 15th century. In this in new energy and fresh ideas, please step illustrated talk Brian Giggins, formerly the forward. New candidates should notify the planning archaeologist for Milton Keynes, will Secretary in advance, together with the be looking at examples in Burton Latimer, names of two members to nominate and Raunds, Wellingborough, Northampton and second their application, or they can be that he has been involved with nominated on the night. since moving to the County in the 1970s.

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Market Square, Northampton Membership fees: And in related news, our committee member £12 individual membership, Graham Cadman passed by the old Shipmans £15 family membership, £10 students pub off the Market Square in the centre of £15 local societies, Northampton and took this photo. As you may £25 educational institutions and libraries know, the building is undergoing refurbishment Cheques payable to Northamptonshire and the whole of the eastern elevation has Archaeological Society: to Pat Chapman, NAS been stripped of render to expose a wonderful Membership Secretary, 4 Oat Hill Drive, view of its multiple phases of brick and stone Northampton, NN3 5AL. work. FIFTY YEARS OF NORTHAMPONSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGY GOES ONLINE It’s been a long journey but we have finally got there, and all back issues of Northamptonshire Archaeology are now available online, free to all, with the Archaeology Data Service (ADS). The process actually started in the late 2000s in getting the old paper journals scanned to pdf format, sending them off in small batches. This cost the society a little over £1000.00 in total. Having achieved that, the Council for British Archaeology (CBA) had set up an online Shipmans, Market Square, Northampton Archaeology Library and we joined, together For those of you who are able to get out and with a few other county societies. So for a about into the centre of Northampton at the few years pdf copies of articles were moment, it’s well worth a look and will serve as available online, but the library never grew as an appetiser for Brian’s AGM lecture. hoped, and was poorly advertised by the CBA so it became lost and forgotten on their SUBSCRIPTION REMINDER website, and was eventually closed down A reminder for those who do not pay by through lack of use. direct debit: subscriptions were due in However, we had always planned to go to the September, apart from those who joined ADS anyway, as this has become the national within the past few months whose centre for archaeological digital archives. In membership will run through to next order to get online though, you have to September. We would ask all those paying by compile all the metadata and then record it Direct Debit to check that they have on a spreadsheet, which for 41 volumes adjusted the amount paid according to the containing over two hundred main articles, subscription rates as increased a few years over a hundred notes, the annual roundups ago, mainly to take account of the increased and various other contributions, resulted in a costs of posting the journals. spreadsheet containing 1416 lines of data, with a lot of columns per line.

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Last year the 2004 monograph, The Northamptonshire Archaeology Archaeology of Northamptonshire, was used The Archaeology of as a trial run of the system, so that is already Medieval Northampton available on ADS, on this link: https://doi.org/10.5284/1050887 Volume 41, 2020 Now, through lockdown, the spreadsheet was This volume will contain an overview of the completed and ADS have created the online archaeology of the pre-Conquest origins of library. This has cost NAS a little over the town and reports on the excavations at £2000.00, which covers the setting up of the Northampton Castle in the 1960s and in 2013. journal on the system and its future curation. There will also be further articles and notes For additional fees, we will also be able to add relevant to the town. It will be published in future issues as well, with a built in delay the journal series but additional copies will be following publication before they become printed to make it available to non-members freely available to all. and through bookshops.

The journal is available on this link: https://doi.org/10.5284/1083067 Please go and have a look, and you can download copies of any older issues that you don’t have as paper copies. We will also be issuing a press release, which hopefully might get so local coverage beyond NAS membership.

Work on compiling the journal is ongoing, and it is hoped that it will be available in the spring of 2021, hopefully to coincide with a

return to a more normal life for us all.

The original Bulletin issued 1966-1973 THOSE WE HAVE LOST Through 2020 we have lost several long-term members and friends of the society, including founding members and regular contributors to the journal. There will be photographs and full obituaries in the next journal. Paul Woodfield (1933-2020) Burl Bellamy (1942-2020) Patrick Foster (1942-2020) Journal covers from the 1970s to the 2000s Richard Ivens (1950-2020)

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PUBLICATIONS 2020 The Battles and Battlefields of Northamptonshire The journal will also contain cover images and Mike Ingram and Graham Evans details of several publications that relate Northamptonshire Battlefields Society directly and indirectly to the archaeology of Paperback £9.99, 155 pages the county: site reports, broader overviews and specialist papers, listed briefly below for Northampton in the Great War, Your Town & those who might want some extra winter Cities in the Great War reading: Turton, K, 2016 Pen & Sword Military Faxton: Excavations in a Deserted Northamptonshire Village 1966–68 Northamptonshire at War 1939-45, Your Butler, L, and Gerrard, C, 2020 Town & Cities in the World War Two Soc Medl Archaeol monog, 42 Turton, K, 2017 Paperback £30.79 Pen & Sword Military Coton Park, Rugby, : A Middle NORTHAMPTONSHIRE AND THE Iron Age settlement with copper alloy casting HERITAGE AT RISK REGISTER 2020 Chapman, A, 2020 Historic England published their Heritage at Archaeopress Archaeology Risk (HAR) Register 2020 on 15 October. Paperback £35.00 Their aim is to work with owners, Friends A Romano-British Settlement and Cemetery Groups, developers and other stakeholders to at Higham Road, Burton Latimer, find solutions for ‘at risk’ historic places and Northamptonshire sites across England. Luke, M, and Barker, J, 2020 The 2020 Register contains 59 entries for Albion Archaeology monog, 4 Listed buildings and structures, places of Bourton Way, Wellingborough and Station worship, archaeological monuments and Road, Higham Ferrers: Two Middle Iron Age Conservation Areas across Northamptonshire. Settlements overlooking the in Sound progress is being made with some; Northamptonshire others sadly remain in poor or declining Luke, M, and Barker, J, 2020 condition. Thankfully, no registered Albion Archaeology monog, 5 battlefields or parks and gardens are No Prices, contact Albion Archaeology. currently identified as being at risk in the Prehistoric Burial Mounds in Orton Meadows, county. Peterborough You can find out what's at risk across England D F Mackreth, forthcoming by searching the Heritage at Risk Register: East Anglian Archaeology, 173 https://historicengland.org.uk/advice/heritag 170 pages e-at-risk/ A Medieval Life: Cecilia Penifader and the Details of all Northamptonshire entries are World of English Peasants before the Plague available in the Heritage at Risk Midlands Judith M Bennett. 2020 Register 2020 at: University of Pennsylvania Press, https://historicengland.org.uk/images- The Middle Ages Series. books/publications/har-2020-registers/mid- Paperback: 192 pages, £20.52 har-register2020/ (2nd edition: revised, with new illustrations)

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Previous years' Heritage at Risk Registers associated settlements, Irthlingborough; are available to download on the Historic Roman villa, Little Addington. England website: Kettering https://historicengland.org.uk/ One Listed Building - Dovecote, north east of Summary of 2020 Northamptonshire HAR Newton Field Centre, Newton and Little entries by local authority: Oakley Corby Northampton Church of St Leonard, Rockingham, Listed buildings - 8, 8a, 9 and 9a, George Row, Rockingham (Northampton & Country Club); Church of St Andrew, Church Walk, Great Billing, Billing. Scheduled Monument: Multivallate hillfort at Old Church of St John the Baptist, Moulton Lane, Boughton along with 5 Listed churches - Conservation Area: St Crispin Hospital, Upton Church of All Saints, Church Lane, Clipston; Church of St Denys, Clipston Road, Kelmarsh; South Northamptonshire Church of All Saints, Daventry Road, Norton; Two Listed buildings - Terrace gardens, Church of St Michael, Stowe IX Churches; Castle Ashby Park, Castle Ashby; Stable Church of St Peter and St Paul, Church Lane, block and outbuildings at Wakefield Lodge, Watford. Potterspury Weedon Barracks: seven II* Listed entries Seven Listed churches: Church of St Mary, for enclosure, bastion and canal walls and the Horton, Hackleton; Church of St John the West Lodge. Baptist, Church Road, Boddington; Church of Gate arch south of south front of Manor St Peter and St Paul, Church Lane, Chacombe; House, Winwick Manor, Winwick Church of St Luke, Banbury Lane, Cold Three Scheduled Monuments all identified as Higham; Church of All Saints, Church Lane, vulnerable to arable ploughing: Univallate Croughton; Church of St Peter and St Paul, hillfort 250m south and a bowl barrow 300m Church Street, ; Church of south east of Castle Dykes Farm, St Mary, Thenford; Church of St John the Farthingstone; Two bowl barrows and a henge Baptist, High Street South, Tiffield. 600m east of Mill Hill Farm, Naseby; Site of Scheduled Monuments: Astwell Castle Farm Bannaventa, Norton / Whilton (Gatehouse Tower), Helmdon; and six plough or tree/scrub threatened Scheduled East Northamptonshire Monuments - Roman villa, Chipping Warden Five buildings or structures - Apethorpe and Edgcote; Roman villa south east of Palace, Apethorpe; Ashton Mill, Oundle Road, Cosgrove Hall, Cosgrove; Roman villa north of Ashton; Barnwell Castle, Barnwell; Lilford Road Hill Farm, Harpole; Roman villa south Hall, Lilford-cumWigsthorpe; Dovecote on east of Stokegap Lodge, Stoke Bruerne; site of manor house and gardens, Wakerley. Sulgrave bowl barrow, Sulgrave; Former Five Listed churches: Church of St Nicholas, World War I National Filling Factory, Main Street, Bulwick; Church of St Peter, Banbury, Warkworth. Main Road, Lowick; Church of St Peter, Conservation Area: Old Stratford. Berrister Place, Raunds; Church of St Lawrence, Church Street, Stanwick; Church Wellingborough of St Mary Magdalene, Main Street, Yarwell. Listed building: House, Higham Road, Two Scheduled Monuments at risk - arable Irchester – description includes the ploughing: Crow Hill Iron Age hillfort with information that - ‘Works were delayed when the main contractor went into liquidation; ______NASNEWS, December 2020 - 5 - Northamptonshire Archaeological Society ______completion and public opening is planned for Roy is best known for directing the long summer 2021’. running excavations at Piddington Roman villa Listed churches: two - Church of St Mary, which have been ongoing since 1979 through The Green, Orlingbury; Church of St Peter the Upper Nene Archaeological Society. and Paul, Main Street, Sywell. UNAS bought the local Wesleyan chapel in Scheduled Monuments: two - site revealed by Piddington, converting it into a museum in aerial photography north of Easton Lodge, order to store and display the project’s finds, Easton Maudit; Romano-British settlement and housing research and educational and pottery kilns west of Ecton North Lodge, facilities. Ecton / Sywell. Roy was for many years on the committee, Conservation Area: Wellingborough Town including Chair, of the pressure group Centre. RESCUE. He presently serves on the board of the Delapre Abbey Preservation Trust. NEW VICE PRESIDENTS His contributions to archaeology have been We are delighted to announce that: recognised nationally in his Lifetime Martin Tingle and Roy Friendship-Taylor Achievement Award from British have been appointed as NAS Vice Presidents. Archaeological Awards in 2008, and securing a nomination for Archaeologist of the Year in They join A E Brown, the original editor of 2019 in the Current Archaeology Awards. the journal, in this honorary position. Roy was a graphic designer in , but Martin and Roy have given many years’ service later took a Diploma in Archaeology at the to NAS and it is worth acknowledging their University of , and an MPhil in long and distinguished record with the Archaeology at the University of Nottingham, Society as well as their work on the reporting on Roman Channel Rim Jars, archaeology of the county. published as a BAR monograph. Roy has been When Brian Dix stood down as editor of the Chair of the Upper Nene Archaeological NAS Journal in 1989, no one else could be Society (UNAS) for over four decades and found to take on this role and, as Dennis was elected an FSA in 2007. Jackson pointed out in his autobiography, the Society was possibly in danger of collapsing. AND FINALLY……… News items of interest are also posted on It was Martin Tingle and his wife, Liz the NAS Facebook page. If you have any Musgrave, who stepped up to take on the editorial role, and Martin later went solo with items you would like included, or the journal and also became the joint Chair, contributions to the journal, contact: and later Chair of the society. He held the Andy Chapman role of Journal editor for 15 years. NAS secretary and journal editor An additional and significant project Martin NAS email: [email protected] undertook during this time was editing The If you have any news or information that Archaeology of Northamptonshire, which was published in 2004. you would like included in the next NAS newsletter then please contact: Roy Friendship-Taylor has been involved in NAS for over 40 years, serving on the Mark Holmes committee in many different roles, including NASNEWS editor as Vice Chair. [email protected] ______NASNEWS, December 2020 - 6 -