Monument record 795 - Probable prehistoric/Roman settlement

Ditched trackway, enclosure, pit alignment, and ditches of Prehistoric or Roman date were seen as cropmarks on air photographs.

{1} Ditched trackway, enclosure, pit alignment and ditches (centred SP 633564; Fig. 135), north-east of Stowe Lodge, on Northampton Sand at 158 m above OD. On air photographs (in NMR) cropmarks of a sinuous trackway (sp 63215627–63395653), orientated roughly south-west-north-east and visible for about 360 m, can be seen. To its west there is part of a sub-rectangular enclosure with rounded corners (SP 63205635) and a short length of pit alignment. There are traces of other possible ditches and enclosures but these have been obscured by frost-wedging and are difficult to interpret.
[The possible enclosures and pit alignment were not recorded part of the NMP project].

<1> Royal Commission on The Historical Monuments of England, 1981, An Inventory of The Historical Monuments in The County of Northampton, p.179-80 site 2 (unchecked) (Series). SNN77381.

<2> RCHME, Undated, RCHME Inventory: Northamptonshire II (Central), 889331 (Archive). SNN112900.

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Feb 3 2025 8:47PM