Monument record 5849 - Possible prehistoric/Roman settlement, north of the River Great Ouse

Cropmarks of a number of undated ditched enclosures and other features visible on aerial photographs, They include a circular enclosure, c30m in diameter, part of a possible double-ditched circular enclosure and next to it a square enclosure. Part of a narrow rectilinear enclosure, aligned north-east to south-west has also been identified. To the north, there is a rectilinear enclosure with possible internal features including pits. A trackway, aligned north-west to south-east, skirts the northern edge of the circular enclosure. A geophysical survey undertaken in 2016 did not identify any of the cropmarks apart from the circular enclosure.

{2} Geophysical survey was undertaken across part of the site. Of the numerous cropmarks recorded in this area from aerial photographs only a single barrow was identified as a geophysical anomaly. The reasons for this were not clear.

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

<2> Schmidt, A,, 2016, Old Stratford Cut, Cosgrove, Northamptonshire: Geophysical Survey, September 2016 (Report). SNN110807.

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