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LITTLE LIMBER

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Earthworks and cropmarks of a probable Medieval deserted settlement identified at Little Limber, Brocklesby Park. Features include hollow ways, tofts, crofts, mounds and a stack stand.

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TA 123103 DMV of Little Limber. Village earthworks lying principally
W of Home Farm are recorded in low relief in pasture by APs (a) in
1946, and partly as low earth works, partly ploughed as soil marks in
1971, and have been further reduced since. (1)

The Medieval settlement referred to by the previous authorities was
seen as earthworks and mapped from good quality air photographs.
Most of the remains have been ploughed and are now visible as
cropmarks. The remains of at least ten tofts are visible as
embanked rectilinear enclosures, measuring on average 20m by 15m,
are centred at TA 1230 1023. A hollow way extends between the
tofts for 230m. Two mounds are visible within the tofts. One of
these is referred to as a possible steading in TA 11 SW 10 but the
function of this, or the other, mound is not clear. Possible croft
boundaries extend north west and south east from the tofts. To the
west of the tofts are more fragmentary remains of possible tofts and
crofts centred at TA 1215 1038. A possible stack stand is visible as
an earthwork to the south west of these, centred at TA 1202 1025. A
possible mill mound is visible to the south of the settlement (see
TA 11 SW 10 for the previous recording history of th emound). It is
almost certainly related to the settlement.
(Morph No. LI.283.2.1-18)

This description is based on data from the RCHME MORPH2 database.
(2)

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(1) General reference

Everson, P 1982 Unpublished archive text, West Lindsey Project, RCHME

(1a) Aerial photograph

RAF VAP CPE/UK 1880/1195-6; Hunting Survey HSL UK 71.207 Run 13 3727-8; APs in NMR

(2) General reference

Helen Winton/15-JUN-1993/RCHME: Lincolnshire NMP

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