Monument record 1283/0/1 - Possible prehistoric round barrow

A cropmark enclosure or ring ditch is visible on air photographs. It is up to 34 metres in diameter, and features a possible entrance causeway on its south or southwest side. It occurs in an area covered with the cropmarks of periglacial features, making interpretation difficult. Harding and Lee include it in their gazetteer of henges, suggesting that such an interpretation is by no means out of the question. The cropmark remains of this ring ditch have been mapped from aerial photographs as part of the Rutland Roman Villa Project.

{1} Large ring with entrance and small ring with no entrance, seen on aerial photos NCCAP:TFOOO4/1+2+6+7

{2} Ring ditch (TF 00140422), on the N. side of Ketton Drift near its W. end, on limestone at 300 ft. above OD. Diam. 30 m. with a possible causeway across the ditch on its S. side {2a}

{4} A cropmark enclosure or ring ditch is visible on air photographs. It is up to 30 metres in diameter, and features a possible entrance causeway on its south or southwest side. It occurs in an area covered with the cropmarks of periglacial features, making interpretation difficult. Harding and Lee include it in their gazetteer of henges, suggesting that such an interpretation is by no means out of the question.

{5} The cropmark remains of this ring ditch have been seen at TF 0014 0421 mapped from aerial photographs as part of the Rutland Roman Villa Project. It has a diameter of 34m with an entrance to the south-west.

<1> FOARD G.R., 1984, ORAL REPORT TO SMR, (unchecked) (Oral Report). SNN50934.

<2a> Aerial Photograph, A/P (CUAP, BCD 82-3) (Photographs). SNN112974.

<2> Royal Commission on The Historical Monuments of England, 1975, An Inventory of The Historical Monuments in The County of Northampton, p.37/Site 1 (checked) (Series). SNN77379.

<3> Northamptonshire SMR Collection of Aerial Photographs, Used with NMR & CUCAP collections (Aerial Photograph(s)). SNN104822.

<4> Harding, A F and Lee, G E, 1987, Henge monuments and related sites of Great Britain : air photographic evidence and catalogue, Site 117/ p. 200-1 (Report). SNN113614.

<5> Small, F, 2023, Aerial Investigation And Mapping at Rutland Roman Villa Environs (Report). SNN116764.

Record last edited

Mar 11 2025 3:20PM