Monument record 445/0/3 - Medieval Fishponds Containing Ridge & Furrow

The remains of medieval fishponds.

{1} Also well-preserved are the fishponds.

{2} Fishponds (SP 591720), on the S side of the village, S of Boat Horse Lane on Middle Lias Clay at 140m above OD. Two rectangular depressions lying parallel to each other and 0.5m deep are probably medieval fishponds. There are traces of later ridge-and-furrow lying within them.

{3} The fishponds mentioned previously are north-west of furlong 137, and as noted in several other cases, contain ridge and furrow.

<1> Hall D.N.; Harding R., 1976, The Northamptonshire Parish Surveys: Crick, 6/28 (checked) (Article). SNN14919.

<2> Royal Commission on The Historical Monuments of England, 1981, An Inventory of The Historical Monuments in The County of Northampton, p.61 Site 8 (checked) (Series). SNN77381.

<3> Hall D.N.; Harding R., 1977, Crick Parish Survey, 7/28-31 (checked) (Article). SNN57905.

<4> Brown A.E. (Editor), 1976, Archaeology in Northamptonshire 1975, 11/196 (checked) (Journal). SNN169.

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