Monument record 3868 - Late Iron Age ditches near Thorpe Malsor

Two late Iron Age ditches that may have formed the north-western corner of a large rectangular enclosure were identified during geophysical survey of a pipeline route.

{3} Two ditches which may have formed the north-western corner of a large enclosure. However, as the junction of the ditches lay at the margin of the survey area it is also possible that the ditches were two elements of a boundary system meeting at a near right angle.

<1> Walford, J.; Butler, A.; Mudd, A. & Harding, J., 2006, AWS Empingham to Hannington Pipeline: Archaeological geophysical and metal detecting surveys Phase 1 August - September 2006 (Report). SNN108019.

<2> Carlyle S.; Clarke J.; Chapman A., 2011, Archaeological Investigations Along the Route of the Empingham to Hannington (Wing Extension) Pipeline Rutland and Northamptonshire January 2008 to July 2009 (Report). SNN108656.

<3> Carlyle S. Clarke, J. and Chapman, A., 2017, Iron Age, Roman and Anglo-Saxon settlement along the Empingham to Hannington Pipeline in Northamptonshire and Rutland (Monograph). SNN110605.

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Jan 22 2024 11:48AM