SNN116978 - Geophysical surveys at Higham Ferrers Castle, Northamptonshire, July 2024-April 2025

The geophysical survey has provided evidence for the curtain wall and buildings within the inner bailey of Higham Ferrers Castle, immediately north of St Mary the Virgin Church. The curtain wall may have been set on top of an earthen bank or ringwork rather than a motte. The surveys did not identify any continuation of the defensive ditch found in a trial trench evaluation in 1991. The possible foundations of four other buildings were identified within the outer bailey of the castle. The results appear to confirm that the castle and associated manorial buildings did not extend as far as Castle Field, where instead there is evidence for an infilled pond and for possible tenements fronting onto Kimbolton Road.