Monument record 5709/0/3 - Iron Age enclosure (Morphed Aerial Archaeology Interpretation)

Crop/soilmark: Poor quality photography

{1} Cropmarks; a series of ditches including the former north to south aligned field boundary; also possible ring ditches; linear features including recent boundaries and possible ring ditches and a windmill-mound like structure. However all are suspect; NCC Aerial Photograph: SP4936/007.

{2} One of the probable hut circles detected by the survey corresponds clearly with a cropmark.

{3} A ditch aligned east to west, 2.02m wide and 0.59m deep. Its fill contained slag, Iron Age pottery and animal bone. The ditch had been re-cut on its northern side. The re-cut was 0.78m wide and 0.28m deep. South of the ditch was a stone surface of compacted limestone and sandstone fragments. It measured 13m long, 5m wide and 0.35m deep. Fragments of Iron Age pottery were recovered from its surface.

<1> Palmer R., 1992, Air Photo Interpretation Comments, (unchecked) (Note). SNN44995.

<2> Bartlett, A., 2012, Land at Hampton Drive, Kings Sutton, Northamptonshire Report on Archaeological Geophysical Survey 2012, (checked) (Report). SNN108531.

<3> Clarke, J., 2012, Archaeological Evaluation of Land North of Hampton Drive, Kings Sutton, Northamptonshire September 2012, p.6 (checked) (Report). SNN108423.

<4> Northamptonshire SMR Collection of Aerial Photographs, Used with NMR & CUCAP collections (Photographs). SNN104822.

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Jun 28 2021 2:56PM