Monument record 1160/232 - South side of Derngate & east of Swan Street

{1}Doc;Speed;1610;S of Derngate and E of Swan Street (formerly Cow Lane);tenements fronting Cow Lane and Derngate(Darngate);,{2}Doc;Noble & Butlin;1747;S of Derngate and E of Swan Street (formerly Cow Lane);by this time tenements fronting Derngate (Darngate);,

{3}Excavations on the site failed to produce any pre-conquest features or finds; thus suggesting a post-conquest date for settlement in the area.

{4} There are references of 1414 to four cottages with gardens and thereafter to stables and orchards. These properties are likely to be the four illustrated on Speed's map of 1610. A trench excavated adjacent to the northern part of Swan Lane revealed evidence for first timber and then stone buildings from the 12th to 14th centuries.

<1> Speed J., 1610, Map of Northamptonshire, (checked) (Map). SNN559.

<2> Noble; Butlin, 1746, Town Map, (checked) (Map). SNN430.

<3> Brown A.E. (ed.), 1981, Archaeology in Northamptonshire 1980, p.204 (checked) Northampton (Article). SNN100418.

<4> Shepherd N., 2013, Archaeological Desk-Based Assessment: Swan Street, Northampton, p.13 (checked) (Report). SNN109229.

Record last edited

Jan 15 2014 1:23PM