Monument record 931/0/3 - Medieval/Post Medieval Hollow Ways (Morphed Aerial Archaeology Interpretation)

Earthwork: Good quality photography

{2} The other earthworks are hollow ways which may be connected, at least in part, to the existence of the Hundred meeting place here. In the centre of the hamlet, at the point where the Glassthorpe track meets the main road between Whilton and Northampton, a broad, hollow way runs north across a pasture field, continuing the line of the track, and forming the eastern boundary of the large enclosure (Mon 931/0/1). This hollow way turns and climbs the hill in a broad curve at SP672632, and at this point there are several deeply cut hollows up to 1.5m deep. It is possible that the line of these hollow ways was determined by early enclosures here, for the south side of the hollow way is bounded by a bank 0.5m high. The hollow ways run to the modern road to Harlestone, just below the assumed site of the Hundred meeting place.

<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.26 Site 3 (checked) (Series). SNN77381.

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Nov 15 2012 11:49AM