Monument record 114 - Probable Neolithic & Bronze Age Burial Site, south of Fotheringhay Lodge

Cropmarks of a possible Neolithic mortuary enclosure, Bronze Age round barrows and linear boundary ditches identified on aerial photographs as part of the Northants NMP project.

{2} Ring Ditches (TL 07519425), diameter 30m, in which are two eccentric pits, one extremely large. In the same field three barbed-and- tanged arrowheads and some flint scrapers have been found.

Ring Ditch (TL 07499419), diam. 16m.

Ring Ditch and Enclosure (TL 07559419). The ring ditch has a diam of 33m. with a small circular ditch within it on the W. side. It is intersected by a larger egg-shaped enclosure.

{3} (TL 075942) Cropmarks seen on AP.

{4} No surface remains.

{5} Ring ditch group recorded on AP in 1971. AP No.350, Baker/Pickering.

<1> Northamptonshire SMR Collection of Aerial Photographs (Aerial Photograph(s)). SNN104822.

<2> Royal Commission on The Historical Monuments of England, 1975, An Inventory of The Historical Monuments in The County of Northampton, p. 40, Fig 40/Sites 3-5 (Series). SNN77379.

<3> Aerial Photograph, AP St Joseph ZB 17 (Photographs). SNN112974.

<4> Baird, J., 1970, Field investigators comments, F1 JB 02-JUN-70 (Notes). SNN110341.

<5> Brown A.E. (Editor), 1972, Air Photography Report for 1971 (Baker & Pickering), p. 56 (Journal). SNN11490.

<6> RCHME, Undated, RCHME Inventory: Northamptonshire I (North-East), 890510 (Archive). SNN113295.

Record last edited

Feb 3 2025 8:13PM