Monument record 3795/0/1 - Prehistoric Enclosure

Rectangular enclosure on air photographs.

{1} Cropmark recorded in 1980. Double-ditched rectangular enclosure. Faint traces of parts of other possible reclinear enclosures appended to east and west of main enclosure. Also part of another rectilinear enclosure to the south, running beneath road.

{2} Cropmark, aerial photography 1981, double ditched enclosure.

{3}Aerial photo NCCAP:SP8775/002-6+9-13.

{5} Enclosures (SP 87007538) NE of the village on the N side of New Road on sand at 85 m. above OD. Air photographs (in NMR) show the W part of a rectangular enclosure, with a fragment of a similar enclosure
within it. At least three ditches approach the site from the W and join or intersect the enclosures.

{6} (SP 870753). Ditches and enclosure on AP in 1979.

{7} (SP 871755). Double ditched rectangular enclosure on AP in 1980.

<1> FOARD G.R., 1980, Oral Report to SMR, (checked) (Oral Report). SNN51132.

<2> 1982, Aerial Photography in Northamptonshire 1981, p.108 Pytchley (checked) (Journal). SNN104561.

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

<4> Walford, J. and Meadows, A., 2014, Archaeological geophysical survey at Pytchley Lodge Farm, Kettering, Northamptonshire (Report). SNN110115.

<5> Royal Commission on The Historical Monuments of England, 1979, An Inventory of The Historical Monuments in The County of Northampton, Page 123 (Mon 1) (Series). SNN77380.

<6> Brown A.E. (ed.), 1980, Archaeology in Northamptonshire 1979, Page 178 (Article). SNN56490.

<7> Brown A.E. (ed.), 1981, Archaeology in Northamptonshire 1980, Page 205 (Article). SNN100418.

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Apr 23 2024 12:46PM