Monument record 3393 - Possible Bronze Age round barrows and Iron Age Settlement, north-east of Brafield

Cropmarks of ring ditches, rectilinear enclosures and possible boundary ditches have been identified on aerial photographs. There have been finds of worked flint and Iron Age pottery.

{1} SP 8280 5889, 8285 5932 & 8290 5953: Vague mark of ditches on APs R Hollowell 1969. (Nothing visible on APs OS 1965)

{2} Mr Hollowell confirmed the sitings and said he intends to re-photograph them soon. There are no surface indications of the ditches.

{3} SP 828 594: Iron Age settlement on Boulder Clay at 104 metres above OD. Air photographs in NMR show a series of indistinct cropmarks of no coherent form. Iron Age pottery has been found here.

<1> Northampton Museum Records (Uncertain). SNN126.

<2> Seaman, B H, 1970, Field Investigator's Comments, 8-SEP-70 (Notes). SNN111541.

<3> Royal Commission on The Historical Monuments of England, 1979, An Inventory of The Historical Monuments in The County of Northampton, P. 5-7 (Series). SNN77380.

<4> Brown, A E (ed), 1971, Bulletin of the Northamptonshire Federation of Archaeological Societies, P. 4 (Journal). SNN13960.

<5> Northamptonshire Industrial Archaeology Group, 1970, Industrial Archaeology In Northamptonshire, P. 2 (Article). SNN103317.

Record last edited

Feb 7 2025 2:37PM