More information : [TF 1526 6970] Moat [G.T.]. (1) [TF 1526 6970] Moat [G.T.] [TF 1533 6960] Human Remains etc found. (2) Burreth, mentioned in 1086, is an extinct village and parish conterminous with the present parish of Tupholme. Both the abbot of Tupholme Abbey and the vicar of the parish church at Burreth died "in the Plague", and no institutions are recorded after 1381. earthworks and crop marks seen on air photographs [at area TF 1528 6961] probably indicate the site of the village. [AO/LP/63/149] The earthworks on Birt Hill, centred at TF 153 696, comprise a moat, an enclosure (with the reputed site of the church marked by a rough mound), and a confused area to the southeast, probably house steadings but mutilated by surface quarrying. Published survey (25") revised. (3-8) [TF 152697] Listed as deserted medieval village of Burreth (known in 1968). (9) Since the last investigation in 1964 the entire site has been ploughed. This has reduced the size of the earthworks but by no means obliterated them. On the main moated area stone and tile are scattered along the raised parts on the SE half of the island. Within the enclosure to the SE at the published site, TF 1534 6960, the vague outline of a rectangular building, 16 x 9m oriented E-W, with a greater concentration of stone and tile at the west end can be seen. Presumably this is the church site. Further SE still are random patches of gravel and tile, or stone and tile, and at TF 1542 6947 a scatter of debris including dressed stone and thin brick. It is possible that this is re-used material from the church site. Sherds of green glazed pottery can be found scattered over the entire area. (10-11)
[TF 1519 6935 area) Medieval and Post Medieval pottery collected from fieldwalking now in Lincoln City and County Museum (LM102.78). (12-13)
This site does not appear in the March 1994 list of scheduled ancient monuments in Lincolnshire, ?descheduled. (14)
The remains of the Medieval settlement of Burreth referred to by the previous authorities were visible as earthworks and mapped from good quality air photographs. These remains have now been ploughed and are visible as cropmarks. The moat is visible as an enclosure defined by banks and ditches with internal measurements of 80m by 70m. It is centred at TF 1522 6967. Nothing was visible in the interior of the moat. Immediately south east of the moat is the enclosure that contains the possible site of the church referred to by the previous authorities. This enclosure measures 120m by 90m and is centred at TF 1534 6960. Within the enclosure the church site is possibly marked by a rectangular platform which measures 30m by 10m. Adjacent to this is a mound 15m in diameter. To the south west of the moat and enclosure is a complex of conjoined enclosures with an average breadth of 100m. These contained ridge and furrow and are probably crofts. Adjacent to these are a series of smaller enclosures, probably tofts, measuring on average 80m by 50m, and centred at TF 1540 6948. Within these are the remains of a building visible as a small enclosure defined by low banks. Also within the tofts is a small quarry possibly the site of a robbed building. A hollow way runs north-west south-east between the crofts and tofts towards the moat where it turns south west and continues, beyond the settlement, for 600m. (Morph No. LI.554.1.1-11)
This description is based on data from the RCHME MORPH2 database. (15) |