Monument record 790 - Possible Prehistoric Field System With Trackways

Complex of Prehistoric or Roman enclosures and ditches across the parish seen as cropmarks on air photographs.

{1} The whole parish is an area of contiguous features and should be regarded as a single multi period site. There is evidence of a triple ditched prehistoric boundary (the start of the Jurassic Way), with the later periods showing a less organised landscape with trackways and enclosures. The area seems to have a later phase where new arrangements of roads and enclosures were imposed over an earlier landscape.

{2} (SP 634 571) Two parallel ditches and (SP 633 568) on AP in 1980.

{3} (SP 642 569) Possibly two parallel ditches, (SP 638 565) and an enclosure on air photographs in 1981.

{4} Enclosures (SP 638 560) and (SP 635 560) identified during AP survey in 1982.

{5} (SP 636 567) [Probably part of the prehistoric landscape which includes various lengths of multiple ditches running roughly in line with the Jurassic Way. Possibly a form of prehistoric boundary marker.

<1> Brown A.E. (Editor), 1977, Archaeology in Northamptonshire 1976, P. 230, 1977 (Report). SNN723.

<2> Brown A.E. (ed.), 1981, Archaeology in Northamptonshire 1980, P. 205 (Article). SNN100418.

<3> Brown A.E.(ed), 1982, Archaeology in Northamptonshire 1981, P. 109 (Journal). SNN100413.

<4> Brown A.E. (Editor), 1983, Archaeology in Northamptonshire 1982, P. 181 (Article). SNN24591.

<5> Pickering, J, 1978, The Jurassic Spine, P. 140-143 (Article). SNN115412.

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