Monument record 3832 - Possible Bronze Age round barrow and Iron Age & Romano-British settlement, north of The Tile House

Cropmarks of a double ring ditch indicate the site of Bronze Age barrows on air photographs. Cropmarks also show enclosures of a ditched trackway, a pit and ditches and Roman and Iron Age pottery has been found.

{1} Double Ring Ditch or Barrow. Air photographs (in NMR, and CUAP, YX 95) show cropmarks of a double ring ditch with diameters of 18 m and 40 m, which is cut by a ditch of the [Iron Age/Roman] settlement. The barrow mound survives, 28m in diam. and 0.5m high. The inner ditch is narrow, the outer one much wider.
Roman Settlement. Traces of a ditched trackway, perhaps forming a T-shaped junction, two small enclosures, one with a large pit inside it and the other with a clear entrance on the N., as well as a number of indeterminate ditches, are visible on air photographs. A small quantity of Roman pottery has been found in the S.E. part of the site (SP SP 8117 7126).

{2} Fieldwalking in 1968, to check the site of a ring ditch recorded from aerial photography in 1966. A large, low mound was clearly visible in the field. A sparse scatter of Romano-British coarse ware sherds was found just south of the barrow mound.

{3} Roman pottery found to the south of the barrow mound.

{4} A known cropmark site yielded a few Iron Age and Romano-British pottery sherds. SP811713.

{5} NCCAP:SP8171/001+8-14.

{6} A ring cropmark at SP 811713 was photographed by R Hollowell of Upper Nene Archaeol Soc in 1966.

{7} Cropmark visible on RAF Aps at SP 81137127, and another at SP 83757146 (probably an old quarry).

{8} Marks of authority {7} are both quarries.

{9} (SP 811713). A double ditch ring enclosure on AP in 1979.

<1> Royal Commission on The Historical Monuments of England, 1979, An Inventory of The Historical Monuments in The County of Northampton, p.71 Sites 1 & 2 (checked) (Series). SNN77380.

<2> Brown, A.E. (Ed.), 1970, Archaeology in Northamptonshire 1969 (Roman), 4/8 (checked) (Article). SNN100535.

<3> HOLLOWELL R., 1971, Aerial Photography and Fieldwork in the Upper Nene Valley, p.13 (checked) (Journal). SNN106546.

<4> Brown A.E. (Editor), 1976, Archaeology in Northamptonshire 1975, p.183 (checked) (Journal). SNN169.

<5> Northamptonshire SMR Collection of Aerial Photographs, (unchecked) (Aerial Photograph(s)). SNN104822.

<6> Brown A.E. (ed.), 1966, Bulletin of the Northamptonshire Federation of Archaeological Societies (Air Photography), p. 20 (Article). SNN40027.

<7> Aerial Photograph, AP 540-1312, F 21 0216-7 (Photographs). SNN112974.

<8> Seaman, BH, 1969, Field investigators comments, F1 BHS 07-OCT-1969 (Notes). SNN111907.

<9> Cowley, D E and Foard, G R, eds, 1980, Aerial photography in Northamptonshire 1979, p. 177 (Article). SNN112709.

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Feb 3 2025 7:52PM