Monument record 1335/0/1 - Saxon to medieval field boundaries or wood banks

A possible medieval or post-medieval field boundary ditch is visible as a cropmark on historic aerial photographs. Located in a parliamentary inclosed field about 752 metres NE of Bozeat Grange, the up to 3 metres wide linear ditch extends about 180 metres NW-SE. The cropmark ditch appears to form part of former pre-inclosure medieval field boundaries east of Bozeat Wood, which is recorded as extant on 1815 maps, but which appears to have been mostly cleared by 1885.

{1} Boundary ditches defining woods part extant in the post medieval period. NCC Aerial Photograph No. SP9057/9-10

{1}Cropmark visible on aerial photograph of 1979; a linear ditch; NCC Aerial Photograph No. : SP 9057/4(+);

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

<2> Brown AE, 1980, Aerial Photography 1980, p. 178 (Notes). SNN104579.

<3> Bedford Borough Council HER, 1996, Georeferenced composite layer of vertical aerial photographs taken in 1996. Held by Bedford Borough Council HER (Archive). SNN111739.

<4> Ordnance Survey Map (Scale/date), Ordnance Survey 1:2500 scale Epoch 1 map Northamptonshire dated 1885 (Map). SNN112944.

<5> Hyett, W, 1815, Ordnance Surveyor’s Drawings 2 inch to the mile (1:31,680 scale), Bedford, OSD233 Item 23, ACCESSED 30-JAN-2019 (Map). SNN116473.

<6> Bedford Borough Council HER, Undated, Bedford Borough NMP, MD003015 (Archive). SNN113023.

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Feb 25 2025 6:24PM