Monument record 535/0/1 - Medieval closes

Settlement remains in the form of ditches bounding closes between a road and adjacent rig and furrow are visible on air photographs, but have now been entirely destroyed by modern cultivation. The area was already devoid of building by 1779.

{1} Settlement remains (SP 518532),formerly part of Byfield village,lay along the E side of the road between the manor house and Church End,on a steep W-facing slope at 145m above OD.Air photographs show what may have been a series of shallow ditches bounding closes between the road and the adjacent ridge-and-furrow to the E but the remains have been entirely destroyed by modern cultivation.the site was already devoid of building in 1779.

<1> Royal Commission on The Historical Monuments of England, 1981, An Inventory of The Historical Monuments in The County of Northampton, p.34 site 3 (checked) (Series). SNN77381.

<2> 1779, Byfield Enclosure Map, (unchecked) (Map). SNN9881.

<3> Northamptonshire SMR Collection of Aerial Photographs, RAF VAP CPE/UK/1994,4155-6 (Aerial Photograph(s)). SNN104822.

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