Monument record 1156/0/5 - Medieval Field System (Morphed Aerial Archaeology Interpretation)

Earthwork: Good quality photography

{1} Earthworks of a possible medieval hollow way and the banks of closes. NCCAP:SP8263/008.

{3} A charter written in the mid C14th (NRO E(S)154) records the grant of ‘one messuage in Myddul street situated between the messuage of John Farindyhs on the south and the king’s highway on the north, and between the messuage of Walter of Grendon on the east and the other king’s highway on the west. The house must have stood at the corner of Middle Street and Church Street in the area now occupied by the garden of the Hall, but all trace has been removed by C18th landscaping. Though the 1703 map shows no houses along it, Middle Street itself does appear, running beside an enclosed field or close called Great Ground and later known as Middle Street Close. There is no clear archaeological evidence of occupation along the southern part of Middle Street, only traces of ditches which define former closes. However on the ground several slight terraces are visible adjacent to the hollow way and these might represent the sites of former houses. The absence of ridge and furrow over much of the area west of the road suggests that there may have been post medieval cultivation which could have removed the surface indications of settlement.

<1> Northamptonshire SMR Collection of Aerial Photographs, Used with NMR & CUCAP collections (Photographs). SNN104822.

<2> 1350 (circa), Charter (NRO E(S)154), (unchecked) (Document). SNN108763.

<3> Foard G., 1993, Ecton: Its Lost Village and Landscape Park, p.335-6 (checked) (Article). SNN54811.

Record last edited

Oct 18 2019 11:33AM