SNN110948 - Land off High Street and Cottesbrooke Road, Naseby, Northamptonshire. Archaeological Topographic Survey, 2016

This report presents the results of an archaeological topographic survey undertaken on land off Cottesbrooke Road and High Street, Naseby, Northamptonshire. The project was commissioned by Francis Jackson Homes in order to fulfil a condition of planning permission granted by Daventry District Council for residential development at the site. The site is archaeologically sensitive, located in an area of extant medieval ridge and furrow earthworks. A geophysical survey of the site undertaken in 2013 identified the extant earthworks on the site in addition to a number of anomalies of probable archaeological origin which were thought to pre-date the ridge and furrow. Archaeological evaluation in 2014 identified a number of linear features on the site which were stratigraphically earlier than the medieval earthworks. The topographic survey recorded well preserved ridge and furrow earthworks over much of the site. Two areas of ridge and furrow separated by a probable headland were recorded. Later field boundaries established at the time of enclosure may have used the headland as a dividing line between adjacent fields. In addition, a pond, a linear hollow and a low were recorded.