Monument record 4770/0/17 - Post Medieval Prospect Mound

Flat-topped circular mound in Easton Neston Park. It has a diameter of 40 metres wide and a height of 0.25 metres, surrounded by a ditch 10 metres wide and 0.25 metres deep, except to the south side where the ditch has been mutilated. The mound appears to cut ridge-and-furrow approaching it from the north. It is probably an 18th or 19th century tree mound.

{1} Mound (SP 70534883) lies on the S of the parish, within the park, on alluvium at 86 m. above OD. A flat-topped circular platform 40 m. across and only 0.25 m. high, surrounded by a ditch 10 m. wide and 0.25 m. deep except on the S where the ditch has been mutilated, appears to cut ridge-and-furrow approaching it from the N. It is probably a landscape feature of C18th or C19th origin; a tree about 100 years old stands in the centre. (Air photographs in NMR).

<1> Royal Commission on The Historical Monuments of England, 1982, An Inventory of The Historical Monuments in The County of Northampton, p.45/Site 7 (checked) (Series). SNN77382.

<2> Northamptonshire SMR Collection of Aerial Photographs, Used with NMR & CUCAP collections (Aerial Photograph(s)). SNN104822.

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Feb 4 2025 8:08PM