Monument record 4268/1/3 - Medieval fishpond (Morphed Aerial Archaeology Interpretation)

Earthwork: Unconfirmed overlay

{2} A pond nearly 3m deep, joined to another pond to the west by two channels which form either side of a large quadrilateral island.
The capital messuage, later to be the castle, is first mentioned in an undated document of the mid 12th century. Around 1200 ‘Henry de Braybroc released to the Abbot and Convent of Pipewell all his rights in the dam which Robert de Braibroc his father had made in Braibroc so that the water of the dam may have its course to Henry’s fishpond as it used to have’. This suggests that part of the existing fishponds was constructed in the late 12th century.

{5} Condition survey undertaken on site of Braybrooke castle. Many of the earthworks in good condition, but some parts being actively eroded and worn. Problems identified as stock, prolonged period of dry weather and presence of thorn trees and bushes. Major area of erosion on main fishponds - details given in report.

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

<2> Royal Commission on The Historical Monuments of England, 1979, An Inventory of The Historical Monuments in The County of Northampton, p.11 site 1 (checked) (Series). SNN77380.

<3> Taylor P., 1992, Fishponds Report 1992, (checked) (Report). SNN1339.

<4> Cadman, G., 1995, SMR Report Form, (checked) (SMR Report Form). SNN49968.

<5> Cadman, G., 1995, Braybrooke Castle and Fishponds: Condition Inspection, (checked) (Unpublished Report). SNN109255.

Record last edited

Feb 6 2014 11:43AM