CRICK The First Village in Northamptonshire

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The long-running excavations of the Middle Iron Age settlements associated with Daventry International Rail Freight Terminal are now about to be published by Archaeopress, Oxford, in two volumes. The first volume covers the excavations undertaken by Birmingham University Field Archaeology Unit (BUFAU) in the 1990s, while the second volume concerns the other sites excavated by Northamptonshire Archaeology (now MOLA Northampton), Foundations Archaeology and Cotswold Archaeology between 1994 and 2013.

By way of a taster, the current developer, Prologis commissioned a popular booklet ‘Crick, The First Village in Northamptonshire’ which has been produced by Cotswold Archaeology in association with RPS, the archaeological consultants throughout the many phases of work. Cotswold Archaeology and RPS are pleased to be able to offer this booklet as a free download.

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