Monument record 105/1 - Old Lodge (Chapman's Lodge)

A scatter of stone and 17th and 18th century pottery. This may be the site of a lodge.

{1} Fieldname: Old Lodge. The pond was cleaned out in the summer of 1983. Plan. NCCAP: SP9283/020.

{2} Earthwork of a enclosure, now mostly filled with modern rubbish. There is a fishpond down-slope from the moat. Possibly a medieval park lodge.

{3} Earthwork survey of the "Old Lodge" with its associated fishpond and ridge-and-furrow. The lodge is a rectangular platform with some minor internal features surrounded by a ditch with external bank. Modern dumping and excavations have damaged the ditch to the north, and farther north modern silage pits have been dug into the slope of the external bank and hillside. A partially collapsed culvert built of limestone runs from the fishpond, underground to the East.

{6} A scatter of stone and 17th and 18th century pottery. This may be the site of a lodge.

<1> FOSTER P., 1982, Oral Report to SMR, (unchecked) (Oral Report). SNN50432.

<2> Hall D. N., 1979, Oral Report to SMR, (unchecked) (Oral Report). SNN50397.

<3> Bellamy B.; Foster P.; Johnston G., 1983, The Royal Deer Parks of Brigstock: an Archaeological Landscape Survey, p.15-18 (unchecked) (Report). SNN43744.

<4> Jackson D., 1982, The Royal Deer Parks of Brigstock: an Archaeological Landscape Survey, (unchecked) (Report). SNN55152.

<5> Northamptonshire SMR Collection of Aerial Photographs, Used with NMR & CUCAP collections (Aerial Photograph(s)). SNN104822.

<6> Brown A.E. (ed.), 1980, Archaeology in Northamptonshire 1979, p. 173 (Article). SNN56490.

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Nov 19 2024 1:12PM