Monument record 4220/0/1 - Mill Moot: probable late medieval mill mound

Mill Moot: Late medieval mill mound. Late medieval to 18th-century pottery and a large quantity of iron nails found.

{2} The mound is large, 20m in diameter and 1.5m high, with a slight depression in the flat top and traces of a ditch 0.2m deep around it, except on the east where the remains of a ramp leading on to the summit survive. The mound is respected by the adjacent ridge-and-furrow. Late medieval and 18th-century pottery together with a large number of iron nails has been found in a worn area on the east side. Finds sent to Northampton Museum

A water-filled pit to the east, probably the source of material for the mound, was largely filled in some years ago but slight traces of it remain. The local name for the site is Mill Moot.

{3} NCCAP:SP7383/(+);

{4} The mount is known as MILL MOOT. There is no known local tradition of a windmill on it. About two years ago, the water-filled pit on the east of the mound was filled in partly with material taken
from the east side of the mound. Many potsherds were found, including a rivetted, repaired vessel and hundreds of iron-nails. Nothing was kept. No evidence of any structure was seen.

{5} [Area centred: SP 7310 8375] A tumulus, c. 1/4 mile south of LITTLE OXENDON, and to the east of the road to Little Oxendon, O.S. 6" SP 78 SW has been reported as being a bell barrow.

{6} [SP 7308 8395] Mound visible as relief-marking.

{7} A large mill-mound, 20.0m in average diameter and 1.5 m. high. There is a depression on the top and traces of a slight ditch on all but the east side. The mound is under grass at the edge of old rig-and-furrow fields. The broken surface of the filled-in pit on the east can still seen and it was presumably the quarry for the material forming the mound.
The east side of the mound is mutilated with exposed soil. About twenty potsherds of late Md. to 18th c. date were found and about the same number of iron-nails, the latter presumably from the wooden weather-boarding of the former mill. Finds sent to Northampton Museum.

{8} 'B' No change. Surveyed at 1/2500.

<1> Ordnance Survey, 1950s/1960s, Ordnance Survey Record Cards, SP78SW7 (checked) (Index). SNN443.

<2> Royal Commission on The Historical Monuments of England, 1981, An Inventory of The Historical Monuments in The County of Northampton, p.159/Site 8 (checked) (Series). SNN77381.

<3> Northamptonshire SMR Collection of Aerial Photographs, Used with NMR & CUCAP collections (Aerial Photograph(s)). SNN104822.

<4> Mr A E Horwell, Undated, Mill Moot, Great Oxendon (Oral Report). SNN112251.

<5> Historic England, Unknown, Oral information, correspondence (not archived) or staff comments, Letter: Miss Norma Whitcomb, Archaeological Asst., NORTHAMPTON MUSEUM, 25.2.60. (Oral Report). SNN111577.

<6> Aerial Photograph, Air Ministry air-photographs: 541/251/3386-7, dated 10.5.49 (Photographs). SNN112974.

<7> Woodhouse, W C, 1960, Field Investigators Comments, F1 WCW 10-MAR-1960 (Note). SNN113151.

<8> Baird, J, 1969, Field Investigators Comments, F2 JB 28-FEB-1969 (Note). SNN111452.

Record last edited

Feb 10 2023 1:26PM