Monument record 459/0/1 - Medieval Settlement Features (Morphed Aerial Archaeology Interpretation)

Earthwork: Non-destructive fieldwork

{1} Field name: Chain Piece.

{2} Aerial photos NCCAP: SP5656/022-34.

{3} One area of settlement was south of the present hall; the surviving earthworks suggest that most of that part of the settlement lay under the present hall and its gardens and outbuildings. They consist of a small area of indeterminate low scarps and banks. At the east end of the site a broad hollow way (marked 'a' on the earthwork plan) appears from under the later gardens and swings south-westwards down the hillside. It is truncated by a steep scarp falling to the lake. At its centre the hollow way is 2m deep. Another trackway, now a terraced feature (marked 'b' on the earthwork plan), runs west from the area of the later gardens, parallel to the countours. One section is broken by quarrying, but beyond this the track continues to an area of ridge and furrow. Between the two tracks is a system of low banks and scarps of generally rectangular form, including at least three well-marked building platforms. Fig.69.

<1> 1741, Map of Fawsley, (unchecked) (Map). SNN8611.

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

<3> Royal Commission on The Historical Monuments of England, 1981, An Inventory of The Historical Monuments in The County of Northampton, p.89-90 Site 1 (checked) (Series). SNN77381.

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