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Shotton
Hob Uid: 25740
Location : County Durham Sedgefield
Grid Ref : NZ3660025400
Summary : The deserted Medieval settlement of Shotton is visible as earthworks on air photographs. The settlement is visible as a series of banks, ditches, boundary banks, boundary ditches, platforms, enclosures, mounds and a hollow way.
More information : NZ 366254 Banks and ditches visible on air photographs suggestive of deserted Medieval village site. (1) At Shotton is a series of banks and ditches forming small enclosures. The banks average 3m in width by 0.8m high and are grass-covered, the construction not being visible. They appear to represent raised house-platforms and the walls of small enclosures. Running from east to west is a hollow averaging 1.5m deep by 7m wide. This may be either a roadway or a dried water course. (2) No change since report of 4.6.57. Surveyed at 1:2500. (3) Reference that in 1387 John Karrowe held land and tenements in Shotton. (4) No change since previous report, but some minor detail added; published survey (25") revised. (5) (NZ 366254) Deserted Medieval Village of Shotton (site of) (NAT) (6) NZ 368254. Shotton. Listed by Beresford. (7) The deserted Medieval settlement of Shotton is visible as earthworks on air photographs. The settlement is visible as a series of banks, ditches, boundary banks, boundary ditches, platforms, enclosures, mounds and a holloway. (8,9)

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Source details : APs (RAF CPE/UK/1835/3038-40 4096-4097)
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Source details : F1 DS 04-JUN-57
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Source details : F2 RWE 22-DEC-61
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Source details : App 1 45th Report of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records 1884 Item No 2 Durham Records
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Source details : F3 RE 25-NOV-81
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Source Number : 6
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Source details : OS 6" 1967
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Source Number : 7
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Source details : Deserted Medieval Villages 1971 186 (M Beresford)
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Source Number : 8
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Source details : NMR NZ 3625/16 (17262/55) 18-MAR-1999
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Source Number : 9
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Source details : RAF CPE/UK/1835 3039 13-NOV-1946
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Monument Types:

Monument Period Name : Medieval
Display Date : Extant
Monument End Date : 1387
Monument Start Date : 1387
Monument Type : Deserted Settlement, Village, Bank (Earthwork), Ditch, Boundary Bank, Boundary Ditch, Platform, Enclosure, Mound, Hollow Way
Evidence : Earthwork, Documentary Evidence

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External Cross Reference Source : SMR Number (Durham)
External Cross Reference Number : 353
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External Cross Reference Source : National Monuments Record Number
External Cross Reference Number : NZ 32 NE 3
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Related Activities :

Associated Activities :
Activity type : FIELD OBSERVATION (VISUAL ASSESSMENT)
Start Date : 1957-06-04
End Date : 1957-06-04

Associated Activities :
Activity type : FIELD OBSERVATION (VISUAL ASSESSMENT)
Start Date : 1961-12-22
End Date : 1961-12-22

Associated Activities :
Activity type : FIELD OBSERVATION (VISUAL ASSESSMENT)
Start Date : 1981-11-25
End Date : 1981-11-25

Associated Activities :
Activity type : AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH INTERPRETATION
Start Date : 2007-04-11
End Date : 2007-08-31

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Shotton