Monument record 1918 - Possible Bronze Age Funerary Site

Cropmarks of two possible Bronze Age round barrows. The northern barrow has also been identified on a geophysical survey. Much finely worked flint including a barbed and tanged arrowhead found.

{1} Cropmark of a ring ditch c.47m diameter and enclosing an eccentric rectangular feature. SP90987027. Fig.148. Fieldwalking pre 1969 by B.Dix. Worked flints, flint cores and a barbed and tanged arrowhead.

{2} Gives SP90967025. C.30m diameter.

{6} Field walking in spring 1969. No surface pottery or building stone but much finely worked flint and several cores found over a wide area. A perfect tanged and barbed arrowhead in pale coloured flint was also found. Gives grid ref. as SP 909706.

{7} (SP90967025) Circular crop mark c30m diameter.
(SP90997041) Circular crop mark.
Both visible on low oblique photos held by R Hollowell Cogenhoe. Perambulation of the sites produced much finely worked flint including a complete barbed and tanged arrowhead.

{8} The S site falls on ploughed and harrowed land and the N is corn stubble and grass; nothing of interest seen at either site and local enquiries negative. Copy of Hollowells air-photo attached.

<1> Royal Commission on The Historical Monuments of England, 1979, An Inventory of The Historical Monuments in The County of Northampton, p.166-7/Site 2 (checked) (Series). SNN77380.

<2> Ordnance Survey, 1950s/1960s, Ordnance Survey Record Cards, SP97SW16 (checked) (Index). SNN443.

<3> Brown A.E. (ed.), 1966, Bulletin of the Northamptonshire Federation of Archaeological Societies (Air Photography), 1/20 (checked) (Article). SNN40027.

<4> Brown, A.E. (Ed.), 1967, Archaeology in Northamptonshire 1966/67 (Aerial Photography), 2/32 (checked) (Article). SNN105839.

<5> HOLLOWELL R., 1971, Aerial Photography and Fieldwork in the Upper Nene Valley, 6/11 site 1 (checked) (Journal). SNN106546.

<6> Brown, A.E. (Ed.), 1970, Archaeology in Northamptonshire 1969 (Prehistoric), 4/4 (checked) (Article). SNN28659.

<7> Historic England, Unknown, Oral information, correspondence (not archived) or staff comments, B Dix (oral) Kettering Grammer School AS (Oral Report). SNN111577.

<8> Seaman, BH, 1969, Field investigators comments, F1 BHS 14-NOV-69 (Notes). SNN111907.

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Jan 31 2025 3:17PM