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Section of the Car Dyke canal, fishponds and barrows 250m north west of the Old Rectory is a multi-period archaeological monument in Northamptonshire comprising a Roman canal, medieval fishponds, and Bronze Age or Iron Age burial mounds. The Car Dyke itself is a substantial linear earthwork of Roman date, constructed as part of the intensive engineering and land management systems developed in Roman Britain, while the associated fishponds represent later medieval agricultural exploitation of the landscape. The barrows present on the site demonstrate occupation and ritual activity in the Bronze Age or Iron Age, indicating this location held significance across multiple periods of prehistory and history. The site exemplifies the palimpsest of human activity characteristic of the English landscape, with successive cultures leaving their mark through distinctive earthwork monuments.
Section of the Car Dyke canal, fishponds and barrows 250m north west of the Old Rectory is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1021104. View the official record →
Section of the Car Dyke canal, fishponds and barrows 250m north west of the Old Rectory is a multi-period archaeological monument in Northamptonshire comprising a Roman canal, medieval fishponds, and Bronze Age or Iron Age burial mounds. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1021104.
Section of the Car Dyke canal, fishponds and barrows 250m north west of the Old Rectory is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic England (NHLE) — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in England. The official designation reference is 1021104.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Old Customs House (9 km), Longthorpe Roman fort and settlement (9.2 km), Lynch Farm complex (9.6 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Section of the Car Dyke canal, fishponds and barrows 250m north west of the Old Rectory's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Section of the Car Dyke canal, fishponds and barrows 250m north west of the Old Rectory stands on Kellaways Formation And Oxford Clay Formation (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Oxfordian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone and sandstone.