SNN103418 - Geophysical Report Survey: Nassington, Northamptonshire

Gradiometer, resistance and radar surveys were conducted within and beyond the grounds of Nassington Prebendal Manor House. The gradiometer survey in the immediate vicinity of the house consisted of areas of magnetic disturbance and ferrous response all assumed to be attributable to modern or natural features. In the adjacent arable field a complex of enclosures and trends were obvious and largely reflected what was known to exist from the aerial photographs. The results of the resistance survey were again largely though to represent natural variation, though areas of possible archaeology were identified including a pit type feature, later confirmed through excavation. The GPR survey was complicated by unfavourable near surface stratigraphy, but a number of circular and linear cut features were identified (including the pit feature seen in the resistance data). Other discrete reflectors have been classified as having archaeological potential, though these remain tentative interpretations.