Monument record 4540/1 - Possible Bronze Age barrow cemetery, north-west of Manor Farm

Air photos show, very indistinctly, at least three ring ditches and a small double enclosure.

{1} Air photos show, very indistinctly, at least three ring ditches and a small double enclosure.

{3} SP 782 667 Circles found during 1967 using aerial photography.

{4} Cropmarks photographed from air in 1964 vague but show at least two ring ditches or sub-circular enclosures with possibly a number of ill defined sub-rectangular enclosures.

{6} A low oblique air photograph, in the possession of R Hollowell, shows circles centred to an area SP 7875 6673.
The fields centred to SP 7815 6693 and SP 7815 6672 are under plough and nothing of archaeological significance was seen in either. The field centred to SP 7867 has cropmarks at SP 7867, these are on the summit of a natural promontory but the site is under crop and closer examination was not possible.

<1> Royal Commission on The Historical Monuments of England, 1979, An Inventory of The Historical Monuments in The County of Northampton, p.110/Site 4 (checked) (Series). SNN77380.

<2> Ordnance Survey, 1950s/1960s, Ordnance Survey Record Cards, SP76NE13 (checked) (Index). SNN443.

<3> Brown, A.E. (Ed.), 1967, Archaeology in Northamptonshire 1966/67 (Aerial Photography), 2/32 (checked) (Article). SNN105839.

<4> HOLLOWELL R., 1971, Aerial Photography and Fieldwork in the Upper Nene Valley, 6/16 (checked) (Journal). SNN106546.

<5> Royal Air Force, Vertical Aerial Photography, APs RAF 541/337/ 2/7/49 3084-5 (Photographs). SNN104890.

<6> Baird, J, 1969, Field Investigators Comments, F1 JB 3-MAR-69 (Note). SNN111452.

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Feb 10 2025 7:27PM