More information : (TF 02133380) migrated village of Sapperton. (1)
Sapretone and Brezbi, where ".... there is a church ...." is
mentioned in the Domesday Survey. (2)
The Saunders family built a large mansion at Sapperton. It was never
completed and was taken down by Richard Welby, who died in 1713. (3)
Air photos show minor traces of desertion at TF 020338. (4)
There is no surface evidence of desertion at Sapperton. Earthworks
adjacent to the present village fall within an area centred
TF 0212 3380; they represent an early agricultural pattern and are
contemporary with rig and furrow ploughing that forms an inherent
part of the complex. No individual crofts, steadings or roads are
identifiable; a much disturbed area alongside the modern road has no
comprehensive pattern. There is no local knowledge of the incomplete
mansion mentioned by Authority 3. (5)
TF 022338. Shrunken medieval village of Sapperton. Scheduled no.
LI/301. (6)
The earthworks described by authority 5 were visible on good quality
air photographs. They consist of small embanked enclosures, which
probably represent the foundations of buildings, within larger
embanked and ditched enclosures, centred at TF 0212 3381. Two
rectangular buildings, 22m by 10m, and 20m by 8m, were visible at
TF 0209 3377 and TF 0213 3377. A 20m square building, was visible
at TF 0212 3385 and another building, with internal divisions,
at TF 0212 3385.
A broad ditch at TF 0214 3374 is interpreted as a possible hollow
way. The site is surrounded by earthwork ridge and furrow to the
west (TF 0193 3378), south (TF 0217 3374) and east (TF 0229 3384).
The photographs cited by authority 4 as having minor traces of
'desertion' at TF 020 338, showed an area of extant ridge and furrow.
(Morph No. LI.826.10.1-9)
This description is based on data from the RCHME MORPH2 database.
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