Monument record 297/0/1 - Medieval hollow way (Morphed Aerial Archaeology Interpretation)

Crop/soilmark+Earthwork: Non-destructive fieldwork

{2} The main street semms to have been the lane which rins south from Stuchbury Hall which is deeply hollowed over much of its length. At its north end this street divided into two or three tracks. One ran north west and then north towards Sulgrave. Another ran north east and remains as an irregular shallow hollw way, now blocked at its north end. A third ran south east (297/0/17)
On the east the present lane is edged by low earthworks comprising shallow rectangular depressions, probably former house sites, bounded by low scarps and banks nowhere above 0.5m high.

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

<2> Royal Commission on The Historical Monuments of England, 1982, An Inventory of The Historical Monuments in The County of Northampton, p.66 site 10 (unchecked) (Series). SNN77382.

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Oct 12 2015 11:00AM