Monument record 7289/0/1 - Possible undated enclosure

Cropmarks, enclosure and other indistinct features identified on aerial photograph.

Aerial photograph: Cropmarks, enclosure and other indistinct features. (1)

{2} Two subrectangular Iron Age or Roman ditched enclosures are visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs and were mapped as part of the Bedford Borough NMP project. Located in a field about 1200 metres north of Friendly Lodge and centred at TL 02568 74577, a 21 metre possibly sub-square shaped ditched enclosure sits within a fragmentary larger, outer, subrectangular ditch enclosing an area some 107 x 110 metres. Bisecting this NE-SW is a 225 metre long linear ditch some 2.6 metres wide of uncertain date and function. To the SE of the outer enclosure is a curvilinear ditch linking to a linear ditch suggesting a probable further contiguous enclosure or field boundary.

<1> Foard G.; Richardson D., 1983, Archaeology in Northamptonshire 1982 (Aerial Photography), p.183 (checked) (Notes). SNN100412.

<2> Oblique Aerial Photograph, NHC 1670/16 UNKNOWN (Aerial Photograph(s)). SNN111738.

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Mar 3 2023 10:40AM