More information : Middleton, in Norton Bavant, is listed as a suspect DMV,
separately assessed in 1334 but now no more than a farm. (Sited to
ST 906445 by (1) but to ST 905438 by (2)). (1-2)
Middleton DMV is situated at ST 90754456 in a field immediately to
the north of Middleton Farm. The remains, mutilated in places by
surface digging, consist of several building platforms terraced into
the SW facing field and bounded on the north by a hollow way. To the
SW of the complex are two roughly rectangular depressions the larger
of which is almost certainly a pond. The smaller, deeper, depression
is either a pond or a pit associated with the adjacent surface
digging. The terracing has a maximum height of 1.3m.
The hollow way terminates at its southern end on a crescentic banked
structure of uncertain use. It appears to have originally been
circular, the SW portion having been destroyed by digging, and
though it seems coeval with the DMV it may have been constructed in
a later period.
Surveyed at 1:2500. (3)
No change; report of 13.3.69. correct. (4)
Middleton is listed within the gazetteer of DMVs known in 1968. (5)
A shrunken settlement set on prehistoric lynchets on the south side of Middle Hill. The settlement is enclosed by a boundary bank and ditch on the NW and NE sides and by a hollow-way to the SE.
For detailed description see Archive Account. (6) |