Monument record 3824/0/1 - Probable Prehistoric Round Barrow (Morphed Aerial Archaeology Interpretation)

Crop/soilmark: Good quality photography

{1} SP811713, Hannington, ring ditch.

{2} Site of cropmark ring ditch. A large, low mound was clearly visible in the field.

{3} Air photographs taken since 1966 shoe a large double ring ditch c.200ft in diameter. A pair of ditches approach it from the west. There are other indeterminate cropmarks within the same field. A mound is still visible on the site of the ring ditch, and Roman pottery has been found to the south of it.

{5} Cropmarks of a double ring ditch with diameters of 18m and 40m.The inner ditch is narrow, the outer one being much wider. The barrow mound survives, 28m in diameter and 0.5m high. The barrow is overlain by Romano-British settlement features.

<1> Brown A.E. (ed.), 1966, Bulletin of the Northamptonshire Federation of Archaeological Societies (Air Photography), 1/20 (checked) (Article). SNN40027.

<2> Brown, A.E. (Ed.), 1970, Archaeology in Northamptonshire 1969 (Roman), 4/8 (checked) (Article). SNN100535.

<3> Brown A.E. (Editor), 1971, Aerial Photography and Fieldwork in The Upper Nene Valley: A Record of Fifteen Years' Work, p.13 (checked) (Journal). SNN69712.

<4> HYLTON T.; MASTERS P., 1998, Empingham to Hannington Anglian Water Pipeline, Northamptonshire Section, Archaeological Evaluation: Stage 1, (unchecked) (Report). SNN63049.

<5> Royal Commission on The Historical Monuments of England, 1979, An Inventory of The Historical Monuments in The County of Northampton, p.71/Site 1 (unchecked) (Series). SNN77380.

<6> Ordnance Survey, 1950s/1960s, Ordnance Survey Record Cards, SP87SW2 (unchecked) (Index). SNN443.

<7> Northamptonshire SMR Collection of Aerial Photographs, Used with NMR & CUCAP collections (Photographs). SNN104822.

Record last edited

Feb 23 2021 10:35AM