Monument record 1028/0/1 - Possible Prehistoric Enclosure (Morphed Aerial Archaeology Interpretation)

Crop/soilmark: Poor quality photography

{1} Three sides of a small trapezoidal enclosure, only 25m x 20m, with a ring ditch 8m in diameter within it.
[HER note 13/11/2014: Air photo plots suggest that the ring ditch lies c.20m to the north-east of the enclosure, not within it, however this ring ditch was not picked up by NMP.]

{2} Aerial photo NCCAP:SP6578/001-7.

{3} The cropmark itself is now on quarry land, to which access was not obtained. Without a precise photographic location of the present quarry edge, it is hard to determine whether or not the cropmarks have survived the renewed quarrying activities. In any case, since the remaining part of the field was not under plough it could not be walked. Tha apparent juxtaposition of flints and cropmark may be significant.

<1> Royal Commission on The Historical Monuments of England, 1981, An Inventory of The Historical Monuments in The County of Northampton, p.51 Site 1 (checked) (Series). SNN77381.

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

<3> Barcham R.C., 1984, A1-M1 Link Road: Archaeological Survey, p.3 (checked) (Report). SNN46879.

Record last edited

May 6 2022 8:44AM