Monument record 4452/0/0 - Possible Bronze Age funerary site (Morphed Aerial Archaeology Interpretation)

Crop/soilmark: Good quality photography. Cropmarks of a circular enclosure identified. Sherds of Bronze Age pottery found in the same area during a fieldwalking survey

{1} Cropmarks of a small circular enclosure; NCCAP:SP7266/122(+); Fieldwalking survey identified sherds of Bronze Age pottery, possibly from Bronze Age cremations, possibly a Bronze Age urnfield being ploughed out;
{2} Possible mis-location of RN:7266012;

{4} Fieldwalking survey identified sherds of a plough damaged Bronze Age cremation vessel and a few sherds of cremated bone. Interpreted as a cremation cemetery but may be an isolated burial. Three sherds of Roman pottery and a single sherd of Saxon pottery were found to the south.

<1> HALL D.N., ORAL REPORT TO SMR, (unchecked) (Uncertain). SNN50850.

<2> FOARD G.R., 1979, ORAL REPORT TO SMR, (unchecked) (Uncertain). SNN51197.

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

<4> David Hall, Fieldwalking in Northamptonshire (Archive). SNN116901.

Record last edited

Nov 27 2025 12:05PM