Allington |
| Hob Uid: 1043788 | |
Location :
Wiltshire
All Cannings
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| Grid Ref : SU0682063090 |
| Summary : Medieval settlement, first documented in Domesday. Settlement earthworks, including building platforms, a pond and a boundary bank, represent shrinkage at two locations. Other earthworks, visible on aerial photographs, appear to be the possible remains of croft boundaries. |
More information : Well preserved settlement earthworks are evident in three paddocks. At SU06806330 there is a wide sub-circular depression c15m dia. with a channel leading to it with a second draining the feature. This depression is probably a pond. To the S there are building platforms, one measuring 8x6m with a boundary bank to one side. Bricks and Sarsen are evident on this platform. Further earthworks, possibly crofts, are evident at SU06806323. (1-4)
Further Medieval and/or Post Medieval settlement remains, to those
described by authority 1, have been mapped from aerial photographs.
A number of boundaries, possibly the remains of crofts are visible
through the village. Some near Allington Cottage, are centred at
SU 0184 6325. More are visible to the south at SU 0190 6321 and
SU 0188 6311. East of the chapel an area of perpendicular banks and
ditches probably represent further settlement remains and are centred
at SU 0180 6300. The earthworks described by authority 1 were not
discernible on the available aerial photographs as they just appear
as an amorphous area of disturbed ground. Potential traces of ridge
and furrow were visible to the north east of the present village but
these were too faint to be sure enough of to plot. (5)
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