Monument record 4287/5/3 - Manorial remains (Morphed Aerial Archaeology Interpretation)

Earthwork: Small scale excavation

{2} The surviving remains, together with those planned by the OS before destruction and those visible on air photographs, indicate at least two separate phases. To the east, and now completely destroyed, was a rectangular area bounded on the south by a low bank and external ditch and probably on the west by at least a bank. The parish church stood in the south east corner and from the north side of the churchyard a low scarp extended north to form the east side of the area.
The enclosure thus formed contained scarps and banks forming closes or perhaps garden plots; a very disturbed group of scarps in the centre were probably the remains of a building. The OS surveyors recorded two other embanked or scarped structures to the north, probably also former buildings. Beyond were other scarps and banks.

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

<2> Royal Commission on The Historical Monuments of England, 1981, An Inventory of The Historical Monuments in The County of Northampton, p.124 site 16 (checked) (Series). SNN77381.

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