Monument record 4192/0/5 - Probable Medieval/Post Medieval Bank (Morphed Aerial Archaeology Interpretation)

Crop/soilmark+Earthwork: Good quality photography

{1} North of the church, on land sloping steeply northwards, are traces of degraded earthworks in the form of mutilated platforms and ditched and banked enclosures. These appear to be the remains of former buildings, but none remained by 1839. Plan of earthworks.

{2} Remains of earlier village earthworks which lay around the church and the medieval manor house (which was held by the Knights Hosiptallers).

{4} Settlement earthworks recorded by D.Hall as part of the Rockingham Forest Project Survey.

<1> Royal Commission on The Historical Monuments of England, 1979, An Inventory of The Historical Monuments in The County of Northampton, p.35/Site 1 (checked) (Series). SNN77380.

<2> Serjeantson R.M.; Ryland W. (Editors), 1906, The Victoria History of the Counties of England: Northamptonshire, p.142-44 (unchecked) (Series). SNN100369.

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

<4> Hall D.N., 1960-1999, Rockingham Forest Project: Archaeological Sites Recorded by David Hall, (unchecked) (Database). SNN102279.

Record last edited

Nov 5 2014 1:42PM