Monument record 3654 - Probable Medieval Settlement, south of the Kettering Road

Earthworks of several hollow ways cross the valley cutting adjacent ridge and furrow. To the north is a roughly rectangular enclosure bounded by a low bank. It overlies the ridge and furrow on the north, but the hollow ways went round it on the south.

{2} Enclosure and hollow ways lie east-north-east of the village on the south side of Kettering Road. At the point where two small south-west flowing streams meet in a small shallow valley there is a large area of permanently damp ground above which the adjacent ridge and furrow terminates. Just south-west of the stream junction several hollow ways cross the valley and, on the north-west side, cut the ridge and furrow. North of the hollow ways, and lying across the southernmost stream, is a roughly rectangular enclosure, bounded by a low bank, with an entrance in its lower south-west side. It overlies ridge and furrow on the north, but the hollow ways went round it on the south.

<1> HYLTON T.; MASTERS P., 1998, Empingham to Hannington Anglian Water Pipeline, Northamptonshire Section, Archaeological Evaluation: Stage 1, (checked) (Report). SNN63049.

<2> Royal Commission on The Historical Monuments of England, 1979, An Inventory of The Historical Monuments in The County of Northampton, p. 150/Site 11 (Series). SNN77380.

<3> Aerial Photograph, AP (CUAP BAP 96) (Photographs). SNN112974.

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Feb 3 2025 7:47PM