Monument record 883/0/2 - Medieval Crofts, east of Main Street

Crop/soilmark: Good quality photography. Former tofts and crofts abandoned by the mid 18th century.

{1} NCCAP:SP6160/001-9+11-15.

{2} The area was abandoned by 1742.

{3} To the south of the stream and east of the main through street was a series of long rectangular paddocks bounded by shallow ditches. These have all been destroyed but stone rubble and pottery (mainly C13th and C14th) have been found at the west and north ends of some of them, indicating that they were once tofts and crofts of the village. In 1742 many of these were still hedged closes.

{4} Archaeological watching brief during the construction of a replacement water main identified a wall and a medieval/post-medieval midden on the eastern side of Dodford village. Bricks within the midden were of medieval manufacture. A scatter of medieval and post-medieval was recovered from the topsoil and subsoil.

<1> Northamptonshire SMR Collection of Aerial Photographs, Used with NMR & CUCAP collections (Photographs). SNN104822.

<2> 1742, Map of Dodford, (unchecked) (Map). SNN14474.

<3> Royal Commission on The Historical Monuments of England, 1981, An Inventory of The Historical Monuments in The County of Northampton, p.72 Site 1 (checked) (Series). SNN77381.

<4> Sprenger, P, 2008, Dodford to Borough Hill Replacement Water Main: Archaeological Watching Brief, Site 2 (Report). SNN112676.

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Feb 11 2022 3:43PM