Monument record 890/0/2 - Medieval Hollow Ways (Morphed Aerial Archaeology Interpretation)

Earthwork: Non-destructive fieldwork

{2} The village had a strikingly rectangular shape made up of three separate parts. The main part, to the north-east, consisted of a roughly rectangular area bounded on the north-east by a broad hollow way up to 2m deep (marked 'a' on the earthwork plan). At its north-west end this hollow way meets the modern track to Muscott House which is probaly on the line of the road which once bounded the village to the north-west. Just east of the bend in the modern track a hollow way curves south-east and then south to a small triangular area with a low mound in its centre (marked 'b' on the plan). From this one hollow way continues south-west towards Muscott House (marked 'c' on the plan). Annother runs south-east and then turns north-east to join the first mentioned hollow way. Another hollow way extends north-eastwards.

<1> Northamptonshire SMR Collection of Aerial Photographs, (unchecked) (Photographs). SNN104822.

<2> Royal Commission on The Historical Monuments of England, 1981, An Inventory of The Historical Monuments in The County of Northampton, p.155-6 Site 11 (checked) (Series). SNN77381.

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Feb 11 2013 6:09PM