More information : (SP 74716589) Tumulus (AT) (1)
Photograph of the barrow (?) exhibited in Northampton Museum. (2)
Probably a barrow, situated in an arable field. In fair
condition, it is tree covered and has been disturbed on top where
an excavation was attempted by a student who encountered
roots and abandoned the project. No ditch is evident.
See annotated 25" survey. (3)
Barrow,pits and ditches(centred SP 74756585),E and SE of Boughton
Grange on Northampton Sand at 106m above OD.The mound,which stands
on the N edge of the field,is tree covered,and an attempted
excavation shortly before 1968 was not completed because of the
roots.The mound is 2.2m high and 15m in diam. and no ditch is
visible.Two pits or ditches were found in the face of the ironstone
quarry in the same field in 1973.From one of these came a sherd of a
Neolithic or Bronze Age vessel with a pronounced shoulder-ridge and
finger-nail decoration on the collar (SP 74746569).Several worked
flints have been found in the same field;air photographs in NMR.
(4)
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