Monument record 2242 - Iron Age Settlement, south-east of The Larches

Iron Age enclosed settlement visible as cropmarks on air photographs. The cropmarks included three main enclosures, and an area of overlapping hut circles, ditches and pits. Fieldwork in the area has revealed Iron Age pottery.

{1} Cropmarks of a complex settlement with three main rectangular enclosures and an area of intensive occupation in the form of overlapping hut circles, ditches and pits. Fieldwalking recovered Iron Age pot sherds at TL02558308. Plan.

{2} Thorpe Achurch. TL 026831. St. Joseph AP shows a sub-rectangular enclosure with a small circular cropmark inside it. Fieldwork has produced Iron Age pottery. By D. Jackson, pre 1970. TL026831.

{5} Crop marks are visible at TL 025830 showing a possible building and enclosures.

{6} Site under pasture, no surface disturbances.

{7} A rectilinear enclosure with a possible annexe, two pits and two hut circles with SE facing entraces are visible at this location on HE aerial photographs taken in 2015.

Further features are visible on Google Earth photography from 2005, 2009 and 2010.

<1> Royal Commission on The Historical Monuments of England, 1975, An Inventory of The Historical Monuments in The County of Northampton, p.94-5/Site 1 (checked) (Series). SNN77379.

<2> Ordnance Survey, 1950s/1960s, Ordnance Survey Record Cards, TL08SW29 (checked) (Index). SNN443.

<3> 1982, Aerial Photography in Northamptonshire 1981, p107 Thorpe Achurch (Journal). SNN104561.

<4> Jackson D., 1970, Fieldwork and Excavation in North Eastern Northamptonshire, p.42 (checked) (Article). SNN4821.

<5> Oblique Aerial Photograph, St Joseph BS 26-JUN-1959 (Aerial Photograph(s)). SNN111738.

<6> Baird, J, 1969, Field Investigators Comments, F1 JB 30-SEP-69 (Note). SNN111452.

<7> Oblique Aerial Photograph, 28735_025-028 30-JUN-2015 (Aerial Photograph(s)). SNN111738.

<8> RCHME, Undated, RCHME Inventory: Northamptonshire I (North-East), 890467 (Archive). SNN113295.

Record last edited

Jan 31 2025 3:47PM