Monument record 965/0/1 - Possible Medieval Tofts, Murcott

Earthworks of possible medieval village remains.

{1} Aerial photos NCCAP:SP6267/15+16+18-20+23+38+39.

{2} South east of Main Street there are at least eleven long closes extending down the hillside and again bounded by banks, scarps or ditches. The north west ends of the three northern ones are still occupied by houses and gardens, and have ridge and furrow within them. In 1771 the area to the south west of these was a single field and paddock.

{4} Archaeological observation undertaken during construction of a new house identified a single post-medieval pit and a large undated ditch aligned north-south. It is perpendicular to an east-west earthwork recorded by the RCHME in 1981 and must therefore predate it.

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

<2> Royal Commission on The Historical Monuments of England, 1981, An Inventory of The Historical Monuments in The County of Northampton, p.133 site 5 (checked) (Series). SNN77381.

<3> Collingridge J., 1771, Watford New Inclosures Belonging to William Cartwright (Map 3158b), (unchecked) (Map). SNN42160.

<4> Pine, J, 2022, Plot 1, Land at Murcott, Long Buckby Road, Long Buckby, Northamptonshire: an archaeological watching brief, https://doi.org/10.5284/1117000 (Report). SNN115015.

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