Monument record 1232/0/4 - Possible medieval enclosures (Morphed Aerial Archaeology Interpretation)

Earthwork: Non-destructive fieldwork

{1} Aerial photos: NCCAP: SP7742/1+6-7 & SP7743/1-2

{2} Immediately south of the hollow way, and east of the church, there was a series of rectangular paddocks bounded by banks and ditches with, to the south again, a large circular mound 20m in diameter and 1m high which still partly survives. Along the valley side to the west of the church and north west of Manor Farm there were other more indeterminate earthworks.

{3} The charity estate consists of the manor of Furtho and a farm there, comprising a house and several closes of land.

<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.119 site 9 (checked) (Series). SNN77382.

<3> 2002, Various correspondence from Edmund Arnold's charity (Furtho), (unchecked) (Correspondence). SNN102285.

Record last edited

Jun 28 2013 10:55AM