Monograph 15: Airfield Farm, Market Harborough now available

We are delighted to announce the publication of our most recent monograph: Late prehistoric boundaries, and Iron Age and Roman settlements, at Airfield Farm, Market Harborough, Leicestershire, by Mike Luke and Tori Guy.

Open-area excavations on around six hectares of land, undertaken in advance of housebuilding, recovered evidence of human activity spanning the middle-late Bronze Age through to the post-medieval period. The most significant remains relate to a middle–late Bronze Age pit alignment and subsequent Iron Age and Roman settlements.

The earliest features were created to divide up the landscape – a middle–late Bronze Age pit alignment and two extensive early Iron Age ditched boundaries. Settlement only began in the middle–late Iron Age, covering an area of 6ha that was largely bounded by the two earlier ditches. The excavations uncovered 29 roundhouses in all, often in clusters.

After the Iron Age settlement declined, a hiatus of roughly 150 years preceded the establishment of a Roman farmstead in the mid-2nd century AD, in a different part of the site. It covered a rectangular area of 2ha and included an aisled building, a drying oven and numerous large pits, continuing until its decline in the first half of the 4th century.

To find out more about the project and buy a copy of the monograph, please visit our dedicated Albion Archaeology Monographs page.