Monument record 4062/0/1 - Open Fields Project: Areas of Survival of Ridge & Furrow

Earthwork (Aerial Photography)

{3} Trenches 1-5 at the northernmost extent of the site contained remnants of a former agricultural system in the form of north-south aligned furrows. (Many of these had had land drains inserted at a later date.)
Further evidence of medieval/post medieval agricultural practice was present in Trenches 7 and 8 in the form of north-south orientated furrows.
Further north-south aligned furrows were present in Trenches 14, 16 and 17.

{4} Ridge and furrow across the landscape, in several different orientations within the excavated area, presumably demarcating earlier field boundaries.

<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> Hall R.V., 2006, Archaeological Evaluation on Land at Priors Hall, Corby, Northamptonshire (CPH06), p.3-4 (checked) (Report). SNN105632.

<4> Hall R., 2008, Excavations at Priors Hall, Northamptonshire, 2006: An Iron Age and Romano-British Ironworking Complex, p.37 (checked) (Report). SNN106586.

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Feb 6 2015 3:06PM