Monument record 4660/1/1 - Possible Prehistoric Round Barrow or Medieval/Post Medieval Windmill Mound

Mound circa 18yds diameter 2ft high with traces of a ditch. The field in which it lies is called Bury Hill on a map of 1725. Possibly a round barrow or windmill mound.

{1}{2} Circular mound 16m diameter x 0.25m high with slight traces of surrounding ditch about 3m wide. The field has slight traces of ridge and furrow but it is impossible to say if this pre-dates the mound. It may be barrow but could also be a medieval windmill mound. Field name: Bury Hill.

{2} SP 7343 5160 Probable barrow c.18yds. in diameter and 2ft high;traces of a ditch.Seen in pasture May 1970. Field known as Bury Hill on map of 1725 (Northants Record Office 455F.). Little of it left by the 19thc.

{3} Little of the mound was left by the mid 19th century.

{4} Mound is also located along alignment of spoil heaps relating to construction of Blisworth Tunnel along Grand Union Canal and may merely represent another heap of spoil.

<1> Royal Commission on The Historical Monuments of England, 1982, An Inventory of The Historical Monuments in The County of Northampton, p.17 site 1 (checked) (Series). SNN77382.

<2> Brown, A.E. (Ed.), 1971, Archaeology in Northamptonshire, 1970 (Prehistoric), 5/1 (checked) (Article). SNN55279.

<3> The Society of Antiquaries of London, 1853, Archaeologia (35), p.394 Plate 16 (unchecked) (Journal). SNN58177.

<4> Addison C.M., 1999, ORAL REPORT TO SMR, (unchecked) (Uncertain). SNN50667.

<5> 1729, Grafton Survey Map (NRO Map 4212), (unchecked) (Map). SNN16165.

<6> Wetton, 1849, Guidebook to Northampton and its Vicinity, p.179 (unchecked) (Book). SNN1032.

<7> Royal Air Force, Vertical Aerial Photography, RAF VAP CPE/UK/ 1926, 1029-30 (Photographs). SNN104890.

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Jun 4 2024 9:54AM