Monument record 400/0/32 - Medieval/Post Medieval Rectilinear System (Morphed Aerial Archaeology Interpretation)

Earthwork: Non-destructive fieldwork

{1} NCCAP:SP5659/005-6.

{3} Another street survived until recently as a broad hollow way. On the east side of this hollow way, extending from it down the slope, were at least five or six rectangular closes bounded by banks, scarps or ditches. The area has now been built over and all the earthworks destroyed, but a large quantity of medieval pottery has been discovered in the vicinity (see Mon 400/0/1). The hollow way itself was marked by a band of gravel. No building existed here in 1779, but some of the close boundaries east of the hollow way still had hedges on them, and the north part of the hollow way itself was a long, narrow close. Earthwork plan, Fig.20 (marked 'a' on plan).

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

<2> 1779, Badby Enclosure Map, (unchecked) (Map). SNN8913.

<3> Royal Commission on The Historical Monuments of England, 1981, An Inventory of The Historical Monuments in The County of Northampton, p.9-11 Site 4 (checked) (Series). SNN77381.

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Aug 22 2014 10:24AM