Find Spot record 2505/0/1 - Unstratified medieval pottery and rubble, north of Banshaw Lodge

Possible Medieval farmstead indicated by an artefact scatter, identified near Banshaw Lodge in 1967. The scatter comprised pottery including Lyveden ware and limestone rubble.

{1} Settlement (?) (SP 980874) lies around the modern Banshaw Lodge on level ground at 380ft above OD on Boulder Clay. Medieval pottery is recorded and sherds of Lyveden ware associated with limestone rubble, have been found in the same area since 1967. The finds indicate an isolated medieval farmstead.

{2} (SP 980874) Medieval pottery sherds found in January 1967.

{3} A perambulation of the site found it to be under corn stubble, little was seen.

<1> Royal Commission on The Historical Monuments of England, 1975, An Inventory of The Historical Monuments in The County of Northampton, p.19/Site 11 (checked) (Series). SNN77379.

<2> Brown A.E. (Ed.), 1967, Archaeology in Northamptonshire 1966/67 (Medieval), p.22 (unchecked) (Article). SNN26725.

<3> Seaman, BH, 1969, Field investigators comments, F1 BHS 08-OCT-1969 (Notes). SNN111907.

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