Monument record 3272/0/2 - Medieval/Post Medieval Bank (Morphed Aerial Archaeology Interpretation)

Earthwork: Good quality photography

{1} A rectangular banked enclosure, bounded on the east by a large bank 1m high and 9m wide and on the north and south by much slighter banks only 0.25m high x 3m wide. The enclosure contains ridge and furrow, and is surrounded to the east, north and south by ridge and furrow [Mon 8344/0/4].

{2} The area was devoid of buildings in 1799.

{4} There is a record of some sort of major earthwork enclosure east of Manor Farm which may at one time have been related to the farm.

<1> Royal Commission on The Historical Monuments of England, 1979, An Inventory of The Historical Monuments in The County of Northampton, p.4 Site 16 (checked) (Series). SNN77380.

<2> 1799, Bozeat Inclosure Map (NRO Map 2839), (unchecked) (Map). SNN293.

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

<4> Soden I., 2013, Archaeological Building Recording and Evaluation at Manor Farm Barn, 7 Dychurch Lane, Bozeat, Northamptonshire, p.3 (checked) (Report). SNN109628.

Record last edited

Feb 11 2015 4:49PM