Monument record 495/0/4 - Medieval settlement features, south of Everdon Church

Earthworks of shrunken Medieval village and associated fishpond.

{1} Pond and settlement remains (SP 59505735), immediately S. of Great Everdon church, in a small valley on clay at about 170 m above OD. The valley floor here appears to have been widened and deepened to form a large depression about 1 m deep. It may originally have been a fishpond. A little to the SW are two well-defined hollow-ways, and an area of disturbed ground possibly the sites of former buildings

{3, 4} Everdon (SP 595 574) Earthworks to S of church photographed from air by P Everson and D Cowley during 1974.

{5} The field is centred at SP 5944 5733. The earthworks, now under pasture, consist of a well defined hollow-way cut into the slope and running along the S side of he field, and another joining it at the W side of the field. The remaining amorphous hollows and slight mounds within the area contained by the hollow-ways are the non surveyable vestiges of village shrinkage.

<1> Royal Commission on The Historical Monuments of England, 1981, An Inventory of The Historical Monuments in The County of Northampton, (unchecked) (Series). SNN77381.

<2> Northamptonshire SMR Collection of Aerial Photographs, NCCAP:SP5957/10&13&27 (Aerial Photograph(s)). SNN104822.

<3> Royal Air Force, Vertical Aerial Photography, (RAF 541/341 3241-2, 15-AUG-49) (Photographs). SNN104890.

<4> Brown A.E. (Editor), 1975, Archaeology in Northamptonshire 1974, p. 174 (Report). SNN41605.

<5> Tittensor, A J, 1977, Field Investigators Comments, F1 AJT 06-MAY-77 (Notes). SNN115541.

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Feb 4 2025 7:58PM