Monument record 544/0/1 - Possible Medieval Hollow Way (Morphed Aerial Archaeology Interpretation)

Earthwork: Non-destructive fieldwork

{2} The small single street of the hamlet can be seen once to have been part of a through road running north west to south east. To the north west of the hamlet this road survives as a shallow hollow way only 0.5m deep curving up the hillside. To the east of the hamlet it can be traced down to the River Cherwell as a similar hollow way. Immediately south of this a hollow way or ditch up to 2m deep runs down the hillside but it is not clear whether this is an original feature. To the south west of the hamlet are the mutilated remains of another hollow way running south west. This can be traced on air photos and partly on the ground for some 320m to the south where it meets the River Cherwell.

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

<2> Royal Commission on The Historical Monuments of England, 1981, An Inventory of The Historical Monuments in The County of Northampton, p.203 site 2 (checked) (Series). SNN77381.

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Sep 3 2021 3:55PM