Monument record 2235/0/1 - Area of Probable Medieval/Post Medieval Settlement Enclosures & House Sites

Mapping based on D.Hall's data.

{1} Field name: Hall Close.

{2} A series of rectangular earthwork closes containing in some cases the sites of buildings. Many of the banks indicate the former presence of stone walls.

{3} The area around the fishponds is covered with low banks, mounds and scarps, forming no coherent pattern, which may represent an earlier site of the village of Pilton. [N.B. Quoted grid ref of TL02508437 applies to fishponds rather than settlement earthworks.

{4} Settlement earthworks (mapped as part of RFP Survey).

<1> 1838, Tithe Map of Pilton, (unchecked) (Map). SNN8158.

<2> BROWN A.E., 1996, Earthworks at Pilton, (unchecked) (Notes). SNN47735.

<3> Royal Commission on The Historical Monuments of England, 1975, An Inventory of The Historical Monuments in The County of Northampton, p.74 Site 9 (checked) (Series). SNN77379.

<4> Hall D.N., 1960-1999, Rockingham Forest Project: Archaeological Sites Recorded by David Hall, (unchecked) (Database). SNN102279.

Record last edited

Nov 29 2011 11:12AM