SNN112262 - A magnetometer survey of the abandoned village of Thrupp, Norton, Northants

CLASP undertook an exploratory magnetometer survey of an area of 9.4 ha. covering the deserted medieval village of Thrupp in the parish of Norton, Northamptonshire. The geophysical survey area is bisected by the B4036 and archaeological remains of the site are also known to lie below the present road surface. 1 The survey results revealed many integrated anomalies both to the north and south of the road, centred on the cross roads of the B4036 and Station Rd. Welton. The majority of the features observed are consistent with the archaeological vestiges of some of the destroyed late 15th century medieval tenements and an abandoned chapel, the results of enclosure in 1489. The overall layout and extent of the medieval village was discerned and the distribution of tofts/tenements, enclosures and trackways revealed. Several other anomalies associated with early Iron Age and Romano-British settlement activity are also present although their collective meaning is difficult to interpret.