Monument record 5842/0/12 - Romano-British Enclosure (Morphed Aerial Archaeology Interpretation)

Crop/soilmark: Non-destructive fieldwork

{1} Cropmarks of a rectangular enclosure with a slight trace of a possible appended enclosure on the north east side. The whole area covers 0.5ha. Aerial photos NCCAP: SP8055/1-5

{2} Recent air photos show a rectangular enclosure bounded by very broad ditches, with a smaller enclosure attached to one side, the whole covering 0.5ha. SP800558.

{4} Cropmarks of many subrectangular, and some sub-circular, ditched enclosures. Some of the enclosures are conjoined. A wide-ditched enclosure to the north east has a possible external palisade trench. Other pits and ditches can also be seen and at the west end of the field a possible old field boundary. Aerial photos NCCAP:SP7955/001-3

<1> Foard G., 2000, Oral report to SMR, (Undated) (Oral Report). SNN100433.

<2> Royal Commission on The Historical Monuments of England, 1982, An Inventory of The Historical Monuments in The County of Northampton, p.199/Site 7 (checked) (Series). SNN77382.

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

<4> Foard G., 2000, Oral report to SMR, (1990) (Oral Report). SNN100433.

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