Monument record 4064 - Cropmarks of possible prehistoric/Roman features

Cropmarks of a rectangular enclosure and two possible ring ditches identified on aerial photographs. [Part of the Hunsbury Hill Complex] Summary from record 4064/0/2: Cropmarks of two ring ditches observed on aerial photographs.

{1} Ring Ditches and Enclosures (c. SP 737580), N. of Wootton Hill Farm, on Upper Lias Clay and Northampton Sands, at 89 m. above OD. Air photographs show cropmarks of two rectangular enclosures with internal areas of about 0.2 hectare and 0.3 hectare, together with two ring ditches about 30 m. and 50 m. in diameter.

{4} Faint traces of other ditches

{5} Although not comprehensively excavated, numerous trenches dug during the housing development were watched and no internal features or dating evidence was observed. In view of the similarity to the enclosure at the south it is probably of Iron Age date.

<1> Royal Commission on The Historical Monuments of England, 1985, An Inventory of The Historical Monuments in The County of Northampton, p.423/Site 4 (checked) (Series). SNN77383.

<2> Rees G., 2008, Enclosure Boundaries and Settlement Individuality in The Iron Age, (unchecked) (Article). SNN106040.

<3> Northamptonshire SMR Collection of Aerial Photographs, NCCAP:SP7358/34-37 (Aerial Photograph(s)). SNN104822.

<4> FOARD G.R., ORAL REPORT TO SMR (Uncertain). SNN51494.

<5> Jackson, D., 1988-9, An Iron Age Enclosure at Wootton Hill Farm, Northampton, 22/ (Article). SNN104536.

<6> Dix B.(ed), 1986-7, Archaeology in Northamptonshire 1985-6, 21/153 (Report). SNN100334.

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Feb 7 2025 2:56PM