| Summary : The remains of Shillingthorpe, a small medieval settlement first recorded in the early 14th century and largely deserted by the middle of the 16th century. The remains include a series of low earthworks which represent a small group of rectangular house plots aligned in a short east-west row. To the south of these features are the remains of a rectangular moated enclosure measuring 45 metres by 55 metres; the remains of three further ditched enclosures, each 25 metres by 30 metres, lie to the west of it. The settlement is adjoined on the west and north by its associated fields. In the western part of the monument are the earthwork remains of ridge and furrow cultivation, representing the surviving parts of two furlongs separated by a broad hollow way which runs east-west towards the house plots. Along the eastern edge of the monument is a linear bank and ditch representing a field boundary which formerly separated these surviving area of ridge and furrow cultivation from further furlongs to the east, now levelled. Scheduled. |
More information : [Area TF 071114] Shillingthorpe (Scheldingthorpe, Shillyngthorp,
etc.), mentioned in the early 14th century, is a lost hamlet in the
parish of Braceborough. It was returned about 1565 as a hamlet
containing only one family. (1)
There are no surface indications of this hamlet. (2)
Additional reference. (3)
TF 073 114. Deserted village of Shillingthorpe. Scheduled no.
LI/173. (4)
The features described below, mapped from good quality air
photographs, represent Medieval and Post-Medieval settlement, a
deserted village, probably the same site described by authority 1,
but located further to the east at TF 0727 1135.
All the features were seen as earthworks, except for two rectangular
buildings, 3m by 9m, at TF 0728 1138 and TF 0726 1137, which were
seen as both earthworks and cropmarks. The earthwork building
platforms and stone foundations, seen in early photographs, were
plough levelled and seen as cropmarks in the later photography.
South of the buildings, at TF 0731 1132, is a moated enclosure,
45m by 55m. West of the moat, at TF 0726 1130, are three small enclosures, 25m by 30m.
Three holloways run west, north-west and north from this area of
settlement, to areas of extant ridge and furrow, at TF 0716 1126,
TF 0718 1151 and TF 0742 1114. At TF 0712 1143 is a small circular
banked enclosure, 5m in diameter, a potential stack stand.
(Morph Nos LI.788.44.1-7, LI.788.45.1)
This description is based data from on the MORPH2 database.
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