Wootton Berry Lane (The Gatehouse Record)

In the civil parish of Wootton.
In the historic county of Northamptonshire and the Soke of Peterborough.
Modern Authority of Northamptonshire.
1974 county of Northamptonshire.
Medieval County of Northamptonshire.

OS Map Grid Reference: SP759562
Latitude 52.19883° Longitude -0.89090°

Wootton Berry Lane has been described as a Timber Castle but is rejected as such.

There are cropmark/slight earthwork remains.

Description

Remains of a motte overlain by earthworks of ridge and furrow and quarrying. (PastScape summary)

Wootton. All the parish was surveyed in advance of Greater Northampton. There are shrunken vill earthworks at the SW, including a small motte-like structure off Berry Lane (SP 759562). Seventeenth century modifications to the open field system are preserved in a good field of ridge and furrow south of the village. There is a possible windmill mound at SP746572. (Northants. Arch. 1974)

The earthworks, said to include a motte and settlement remains, on the S. side of Berry Lane (SP 759562; Northamptonshire Archaeol 9 (1974), 111) are old quarry pits and modern disturbances to ridge-and-furrow. (RCHME)

Sources of information, references and further reading

Historic England (PastScape) Defra or Monument number(s) 621747.
Further information may be available from the holder of the county Historic Environment Record.

Books
- RCHME, 1985, An inventory of the historical monuments in the County of Northampton Vol. 5: archaeological sites and churches in Northampton (HMSO) p. 426 online transcription
Periodical Articles
- Hall, D.N., 1974, 'Archaeology in Northamptonshire 1973' Northamptonshire Archaeology Vol. 9 p. 111 download from ArchLib

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