Monument record 4300/0/1 - Possible Site of Round Barrow

Prob bowl barrow (site of). Destroyed in 1964

{2} Barrow (?) (SP 77437565). Until it was destroyed in 1964 there was a mound 0.8 m high and 11.5 m in diameter with no trace of a ditch; it was perhaps a bowl barrow. On air photographs taken before destruction {6} it appears that the mound was respected by the surrounding ridge-and-furrow.

{4} A probable bowl barrow at SP 77437565. It is 11.5m in diameter and 0.8m high, and has been slightly mutilated by digging on the NW side. There is no trace of a surrounding ditch.

{5} The mound was bulldozed in about 1964 and the site is under plough. No traces survive.

<1> Ordnance Survey, 1950s/1960s, Ordnance Survey Record Cards, SP77NE4 (checked) (Index). SNN443.

<2> Royal Commission on The Historical Monuments of England, 1981, An Inventory of The Historical Monuments in The County of Northampton, p.115/Site 3 & Fig 95 (checked) (Series). SNN77381.

<3> Wetton, 1849, Guidebook to Northampton and its Vicinity, p.105 (unchecked) (Book). SNN1032.

<4> GHP, 1962, Field Investigators Comments, F1 GHP 22-JUN-1962 (Note). SNN112399.

<5> Baird, J, 1969, Field Investigators Comments, F2 JB 19-MAR-1969 (Note). SNN111452.

<6> Royal Air Force, 1940s, RAF Vertical Aerial Photographs, CPE/UK/1925 4367-8 (Aerial Photograph(s)). SNN105266.

<7> Northamptonshire SMR Collection of Aerial Photographs, NCCAP: SP775/1+2. (Photographs). SNN104822.

Record last edited

Dec 8 2023 3:52PM