Archaeological excavations in advance of the construction of the new A43 dual carriageway between Towcester and the M40, in both Northamptonshire and Oxfordshire, were carried out by Northamptonshire Archaeology in 2000 and 2001 in accordance with Highways Agency requirements. Excavations were undertaken on five settlement sites four dating to the Iron Age/early Roman period, and one to the Roman period. Three of the Iron Age sites, each of a different form, lay within 500m of each other south of Towcester. There were also investigations on a smaller scale on sites principally of the Iron Age...

Archaeological excavation of about 11ha of land at Tower's Fen, Thorney, Peterborough (England),
investigated part of an extensive pattern of ditched enclosures and fields associated with several
waterholes and two ponds. One large pit, which may have been a waterhole, yielded Early Bronze
Age pottery and is radiocarbon dated to the terminal 3rd millennium BC. Two other dates from the
ponds came out at around 1500-1300 BC. The other features were probably also Middle to Late
Bronze Age although the limited quantity of pottery was not datable precisely. Waterlogged...