Linear features. Angular features possibly parts of rectangular enclosures. Pit alignments with another adjoining at right angles. 2 small rectangular enclosures. (1) (2) (3)
Morph: 188.16.1 linear feature (4)
The farmer said that material dug from a large pond was dumped over irregular earthwork features here. (5)
A long machine-excavated trench (4a) was positioned to test for cropmark features. At the N end an E-W ditch 1.5m wide and at least 0.5m deep was excavated which produced 26 sherds of Romano-British pottery. Immediately N was a pit which contained post-medieval pottery. A further NE-SW ditch approximately 0.8m wide and at least 0.35m deep produced a further 2 sherds of Romano-British pottery. Towards the S end of the trench, a series of four parallel NE-SW gullies were excavated. A second machine-excavated trench (4b) was opened in field 4 to examine a rectangular double-ditch enclosure, seen as a cropmark in air photographs. One of the double-ditches was located within the excavation area which was 1.40m wide and 1.30m deep. It had a steeply V profile and contained 4 sherds of Romano-British pottery. (6)
See L8343, L8345, L8322, & L8350 for associated cropmarks.
See L11108 for lava quern.
Grid ref centred.

Data Held: Aerial Photograph (Aerial photograph). SNT2645.

9 BW prints JAP 9/28, 1178/19,20,23,24, 13616/30,32, 13786/36,37, DNR 758/14

<1> Pickering J, Air photos (Aerial photograph). SNT1148.

Other Refs: 9/28,34, 244/20, 1178/19,20,23,24 (NLAP SK 7857/1,40, 7757/18,19,22,23)

<2> Pickering J, Air photos (Aerial photograph). SNT1148.

Other Refs: 1179/9, 1181/5,6 (NLAP SK 7858/38, 7857/59,60)

<3> Riley DN, Air photos (Aerial photograph). SNT1194.

Other Refs: 426/13, 428/21,26,27 (NLAP SK 7857/23,25,27-8)

<4> RCHME, National Mapping Programme, Notts - Morph Data (Unknown). SNT1470.

<5> Oxford Archaeotechnics, 1991, Manor House Farm, Little Carlton - Magnetic Susceptibility Survey and Augering Programme, pp 16-17 (Unpublished document). SNT1867.

<6> TPAT, 1992, Manor House Farm, Little Carlton - A Summary Report upon Archaeological Evaluations, p 11 (Unpublished document). SNT1870.