Monument record 3222 - Probable prehistoric/Roman settlement, north-west of Poplars Farm

Two conjoined rectangular ditched enclosures and a trackway of probable Iron Age or Roman date are visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs. Located in a field NW of Poplars Farm, a rectangular ditched enclosure up to 3.5 metres wide encloses an area about 36 x 30 metres, joined by its east side to a second rectangular enclosure that encloses an area some 33 x 28 metres. The south sides of both enclosures form part of the north side of a double ditched slightly curvilinear trackway some 175 metres long, the southern parallel side of the trackway being separated by about 8.5 metres.

{1} Air photographs show two small enclosures attached to the north side of a ditched trackway; traces of what appear to be three sides of a rectangular enclosure are visible, 250m to the south;

{2} Air photographs taken 1970 show a squarish and a sub-rectangular enclosure of 1/4 and 1/3 acre. Attached to the north side of a ditch trackway. Boulder Clay;

{4} Two conjoined rectangular ditched enclosures and a trackway of probable Iron Age or Roman date are visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs and were mapped as part of the Bedford Borough NMP project. Located in a field about 560 metres NW of Poplars Farm and centred at SP 91451 61505, a rectangular ditched enclosure up to 3.5 metres wide encloses an area about 36 x 30 metres, joined by its east side to a second rectangular enclosure that encloses an area some 33 x 28 metres. The south sides of both enclosures form the western end of the north side of a double ditched slightly curvilinear trackway some 175 metres long, the southern parallel side of the trackway being separated by about 8.5 metres.

<1> Royal Commission on The Historical Monuments of England, 1979, An Inventory of The Historical Monuments in The County of Northampton, p. 180/site 27 (Series). SNN77380.

<2> HOLLOWELL R., 1971, Aerial Photography and Fieldwork in the Upper Nene Valley, 6/19/SITE 9 (Journal). SNN106546.

<3> 1982, Aerial Photography in Northamptonshire 1981, p108 Bozeat (Checked) (Journal). SNN104561.

<4> Oblique Aerial Photograph, HOL 9486/23 1970 (Aerial Photograph(s)). SNN111738.

<5> Bedford Borough Council HER, Undated, Bedford Borough NMP, MD003015 (Archive). SNN113023.

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Apr 26 2022 2:14PM