Monument record 2048/0/3 - Possible Ditch, Undated (Morphed Aerial Archaeology Interpretation)

Crop/soilmark: Good quality photography

{2} A pit alignment intersecting 3 parallel ditches.

{3} Trial trench evaluation identified two parallel ditches aligned north-south. These were 0.50m and 0.57m wide with shallow U-shaped cuts filled with greybrown silty-clay. They were 0.40m and
0.18m deep but both were below the level of the water table. No finds were recovered however industrial magnetic residue, indicative of burning was recovered from the fill of one of the ditches.

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

<2> Royal Commission on The Historical Monuments of England, 1979, An Inventory of The Historical Monuments in The County of Northampton, p.49 site 18 (checked) (Series). SNN77380.

<3> Goacher, H, 2017, Land at Great Billing Sand and Gravel Extraction and Restoration, Northampton: Archaeological evaluation and auger survey, 2017 (Report). SNN110985.

Record last edited

Dec 15 2017 1:43PM