Monument record 2929/0/5 - Possible Medieval/Post Medieval Toft (Morphed Aerial Archaeology Interpretation)

Earthwork: Good quality photography

{1}EWKS;AP;POSS MED CLOSES OF VILLAGE OF COTTESBROOKE;DEFINED BY D.N.HALL;(1);NCCAP:SP7173/7-9(+);

{3} At the extreme end of the village on both sides of the road, east and south-east of Home Farm is a series of small rectangular enclosures bounded by low banks and scarps. These may represent another part of the village, but the area was already devoid of occupation by 1628.

{4} Cottesbrooke Parish Survey. There are some shrunken vill earthworks to the east of the village.

<1> HALL D.N., ORAL REPORT TO SMR, (unchecked) (Uncertain). SNN50849.

<2> Northamptonshire SMR Collection of Aerial Photographs, Used with NMR & CUCAP collections (Photographs). SNN104822.

<3> Royal Commission on The Historical Monuments of England, 1981, An Inventory of The Historical Monuments in The County of Northampton, p.57 Site 5 (checked) (Series). SNN77381.

<4> Brown A.E. (Editor), 1974, Archaeology In Northamptonshire 1973, p.104 (checked) (Article). SNN9109.

Record last edited

Feb 25 2011 4:18PM