Monument record 448/0/1 - Possible Prehistoric/Romano-British Enclosure

Double ditched enclosure on air photographs

{1} Double-Ditched Enclosure (SP 620802), against the W boundary of the parish, on a steep-sided spur known as Downtown Hill, on clays and silts at 168 m. above OD. Air photographs (in NMR) show three sides of a sub-rectangular double-ditched enclosure covering about 0.75 hectare. The enclosure is overlaid by ploughed-out-ridge-and-furrow which obscures any trace of a S.E side.

{3} (SP 620802, SP 622802). Two double ditched enclosures on AP in 1969.

<1> Royal Commission on The Historical Monuments of England, 1981, An Inventory of The Historical Monuments in The County of Northampton, p.195 (checked) (Series). SNN77381.

<2> Northamptonshire SMR Collection of Aerial Photographs, NCCAP:6280/001-4 (unchecked) (Aerial Photograph(s)). SNN104822.

<3> Brown A.E. (Editor), 1976, Archaeology in Northamptonshire 1975, p. 194 (Journal). SNN169.

<4> RCHME, Undated, RCHME Inventory: Northamptonshire II (Central), 889305 (Archive). SNN112900.

Record last edited

Feb 4 2025 7:17PM