Monument record 402/0/3 - Probable Medieval Tofts & Crofts (Morphed Aerial Archaeology Interpretation)

Earthwork: Non-destructive fieldwork

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

{2} The best preserved consists of a series of rectangular scarped closes lying on each side of a hollow way or main street. Earthwork plan. On the north-west side of the main hollow way are at least six long embanked closes, presumably former crofts and tofts, but all are over-ploughed by later ridge and furrow, and any house sites that may have existed have been destroyed.To the south-east of the hollow way is a further series of long closes. These do not appear to have been ploughed but no definite building platforms are visible.

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

<2> 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.

<3> Ordnance Survey, 1950s/1960s, Ordnance Survey Record Cards, SP57SW11 (unchecked) (Index). SNN443.

Record last edited

Apr 4 2011 2:56PM