Monument record 402/0/1 - Probable Medieval Hollow Ways (Morphed Aerial Archaeology Interpretation)

Earthwork: Non-destructive fieldwork

{2} Aerial photos NCCAP: SP5170/001-17.

{3} The best preserved consists of a series of rectangular scarped closes lying on each side of a hollow way or main street. The latter is of irregular form and, in one place, almost totally obliterated byt later narrow-rig which lies over it. At the north end it curves north-west to meet the stream. From this hollow way another runs east and a third runs west towards the stream. Further north two short hollow ways or lanes also extend north-west of the stream. Earthwork plan.

<1> Ordnance Survey, 1950s/1960s, Ordnance Survey Record Cards, SP57SW11 (unchecked) (Index). SNN443.

<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.13 Site 1 (checked) (Series). SNN77381.

Record last edited

Apr 4 2011 2:27PM