More information : A moat and associated village earthworks are to be found north of
Lenton Lodge. At about TF 056313. (1)
Site identified as possibly Little Lenton or Little Lavington (see
also TF 03 SW 11). Earthworks levelled and ploughed in 1978. Saxon
Norman to 13th century pottery found and from moated site at W only
16th century pottery found during fieldwalking by SLAU in 1979.
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The Medieval settlement referred to by the previous authorities was
visible as earthworks and has been mapped from poor quality air
photographs. The probable remains of tofts were visible, centred
at TF 0559 3137, as nine conjoined rectilinear ditch defined
enclosures measuring on average 40m by 40m. At the east end of the
enclosures to the north of Lenton Lodge is a moat visible as a
substantially ditched rectilinear enclosure measuring 55m by 45m
internally and centred at TF 0544 3124. There were no traces of
buildings in the interior. The settlement remains had been
seriously encroached on by the adjacent airfield at the time the
earliest photography was taken in 1946 and has now been ploughed.
Lenton Lodge has also been destroyed. There is no definite
evidence that this is the same village described as Little Lenton
or Little Lavington in Domesday Book and in tithe maps
(see TF 03 SW 11). (Morph No. LI.814.13.1)
This description is based on data from the RCHME MORPH2 database.
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