Information for record number MWA3476:
Undated linear cropmarks

Summary The site of a possible enclosure and linear features, which might be the remains of a drove road. All features are of unknown date but are visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs. The site is located 800m west of Little Lawford.
What Is It?  
Type: Linear Feature, Enclosure, Drove Road
Period: Unknown
Where Is It?  
Parish: Little Lawford
District: Rugby, Warwickshire
Grid Reference: SP 46 77
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Level of Protection National - Old SMR PrefRef (Grade: )
Sites & Monuments Record
Description

  
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1 On S bank of River Avon at SP4677 traces of enclosures and drove roads (?), leading towards river.
2 SP4677. Twin parallel road ditches directed at loop in the river with abutting square- and round-cornered enclosures. Negative fieldwalking. Site 62 in survey.
4 These aerial photographs have not been located.
 
Sources
Source No: 2
Source Type: Bibliographic reference
Title: Early Settlement Sites in the Avon Valley
Author/originator: Hobley B
Date: 1962
Page Number: Site 62
Volume/Sheet: Typescript
   
Source No: 3
Source Type: Record Card/Form
Title: OS Card 25NE6
Author/originator: Ordnance Survey
Date: 1968
Page Number:
Volume/Sheet:
   
Source No: 1
Source Type: Serial
Title: Archaeological Journal 1964
Author/originator: Webster G and Hobley B
Date: 1964
Page Number: 22
Volume/Sheet: 121
   
Source No: 4
Source Type: Verbal communication
Title: R.C. Hingley personal comments
Author/originator: R C Hingley
Date:
Page Number:
Volume/Sheet:
   
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source OS Card Ordnance Survey Record Card. Before the 1970s the Ordnance Survey (OS) were responsible for recording archaeological monuments during mapping exercises. This helped the Ordnance Survey to decide which monuments to publish on maps. During these exercises the details of the monuments were written down on record cards. Copies of some of the cards are kept at the Warwickshire Sites and Monuments Record. The responsibility for recording archaeological monuments later passed to the Royal Commission on Ancient and Historic Monuments. back
technique Cropmark Cropmarks appear as light and dark marks in growing and ripening crops. These marks relate to differences in the soil below. For example, parched lines of grass may indicate stone walls. Crops that grow over stone features often ripen more quickly and are shorter than the surrounding crop. This is because there is less moisture in the soil where the wall lies.

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technique Aerial Photograph Aerial photographs are taken during an aerial survey, which involves looking at the ground from above. It is usually easier to see cropmarks and earthworks when they are viewed from above. Aerial photographs help archaeologists to record what they see and to identify new sites. There are two kinds of aerial photographs; oblique and vertical. back
monument DROVE ROAD * A road or track specifically used by drovers or herders to drive their animals to market. back
monument SITE * Unclassifiable site with minimal information. Specify site type wherever possible. back
monument SETTLEMENT * A small concentration of dwellings. back
monument FEATURE * Areas of indeterminate function. back
monument ROAD * A way between different places, used by horses, travellers on foot and vehicles. back
monument LINEAR FEATURE * A length of straight, curved or angled earthwork or cropmark of uncertain date or function. back
monument ENCLOSURE * An area of land enclosed by a boundary ditch, bank, wall, palisade or other similar barrier. Use specific type where known. back
monument DITCH * A long and narrow hollow or trench dug in the ground, often used to carry water though it may be dry for much of the year. back
monument SQUARE * An open space or area, usually square in plan, in a town or city, enclosed by residential and/or commercial buildings, frequently containing a garden or laid out with trees. back
monument ROUND * A small, Iron Age/Romano-British enclosed settlement found in South West England. back

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