Monument record 1754/0/3 - Open Fields Project: Areas of Survival of Ridge & Furrow

Earthwork (Aerial Photography)

{3} Medieval ridge and furrow cultivation is present in the eastern part of the development site. It is part of a wider system of cultivation previously recorded. Geophysical survey undertaken in 2007 to the north and south of the site recorded anomalies related to this cultivation.
Well-defined earthworks comprising ridge and furrow were present on the east of the site to the south of the stream. The north-north-east by south-south-west orientated ridges were up to 5.5m wide x 0.4m high. The interval between the ridges was approximately 9-10m.

<1> Hall D.; Palmer R., 2001, Midland Open Fields Project: Digital Archive, (part checked) (Archive). SNN105253.

<2> Hall D.N., 2001, Turning The Plough - Midland Open Fields: Landscape Character and Proposals for Management, (unchecked) (Book). SNN101551.

<3> Simmonds C., 2010, An Archaeological Trial Trench Evaluation of Land at Finedon Road, Irthlingborough, Northamptonshire, p.4+9 Fig.9 (checked) (Report). SNN107963.

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