Monument record 4709/2/1 - Medieval Building Platform (Morphed Aerial Archaeology Interpretation)

Earthwork: Non-destructive fieldwork

{2} Part of the site of the manor house is marked by a large north facing scarp about 1.5m high. To the south east is an L-shaped scarp only 0.25m high which appears to have lain inside the area of an orchard in 1766.

{4} Across the main vista between the hall and Courteenhall church however earthworks representing the old manor house (200m south-east of Courteenhall), village and its roads are slight, suggesting that their sites were ploughed as part of the imparkment process.

<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.38 site 2 (checked) (Series). SNN77382.

<3> 1766, Map of Courteenhall, (unchecked) (Map). SNN19092.

<4> English Heritage, 1991, Register of Parks & Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England (1991, Northamptonshire), (checked) (Report). SNN1167.

Record last edited

Dec 14 2010 3:44PM