Monument record 4649/0/1 - Possible Prehistoric Enclosure (Morphed Aerial Archaeology Interpretation)

Crop/soilmark: Good quality photography

{4} Air photos show a small D-shaped enclosure 80m by 30m, orientated north east - south west. Within it and in the surrounding area are numerous other cropmarks but these appear to be mainly natural. Northants Archaeology vols all give incorrect grid references. Aerial photo no. NCCAP: SP7256/1+4

{6} Further to the south Iron Age farming settlement have been identified near Milton Malsor and Rothersthorpe.

<1> 1972, Northamptonshire Archaeology, 7/57 (unchecked) (Journal). SNN59528.

<2> 1973, Northamptonshire Archaeology, 8/26 (unchecked) (Journal). SNN59529.

<3> Brown A.E. (Editor), 1977, Archaeology in Northamptonshire 1976, 12/230 (unchecked) (Report). SNN723.

<4> Royal Commission on The Historical Monuments of England, 1982, An Inventory of The Historical Monuments in The County of Northampton, p.127/Site 1 (unchecked) (Series). SNN77382.

<5> Northamptonshire SMR Collection of Aerial Photographs, Used with NMR & CUCAP collections (Photographs). SNN104822.

<6> Carlyle S., 2010, Neolithic Cremations And A Romano-British Enclosure at Milton Ham, Northampton, February and March 2008, p.4 (part checked) (Report). SNN107968.

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