MONUMENT NO. 345244

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Earthworks - possible manorial, although may be a degraded ringwork and bailey.

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(SP 80265961) Earthwork (TI) (1)

Indicated on map (2)

Section across ditch excavated by E.D. Bailey (1957) Finds including 13th c pottery and tile in Northampton Museum. (3)

The earthwork shows as a raised platform max 1.4m high, the ditch having been filled in. Possibly the site for a medieval manor. (4)

Site of Manor House (SP 80265961) immediately W of the church, on sand at 84 m. above OD. The site consists of a rectangular raised platform with a level top, so that it is almost 3 m. high on the NW and only 1 m. high in the S. The SE part has been destroyed by the chruchyard and the NW corner has been damaged. Therre are slight traces of former buildings on the platform, but these may be modern. The site has been described as a motte, but it is more probably the site of a medieval manor house. The area in which it lies was known as South Hall Piece in 1835. (5)

Listed by Cathcart King as a badly worn rigwork with a possible bailey. (6)

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( 1) Ordnance Survey Map (Scale / Date)

OS 6" 1958

( 2) Society of Antiquaries of London Archaeologia : or miscellaneous tracts relating to antiquity

Map opposite page 394. 35, 1853

( 3) General reference

Northampton Museum 6" AW 1957

( 4) Field Investigators Comments

F1 BHS 13-MAY-1970

( 5a) General reference

Northants Record Office Little Houghton Estate Map 1835

( 5) Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, England 1979 An inventory of the historical monuments in the County of Northampton. Volume II: archaeological sites in central Northamptonshire

Monument 29 Page(s)88

( 5b) Council for British Archaeology Group 9: South Midlands archaeology newsletter

4, 1974 Page(s)27

(6) David J Cathcart King 1983 Castellarium anglicanum : an index and bibliography of the castles in England, Wales and the Islands. Volume II : Norfolk-Yorkshire and the islands

Page(s)316

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