More information : SJ 472 612: House platforms and earthworks are visible on air
photographs at Hatton and represent the Deserted Medieval Village of
Hatton. (1-2)
Nothing visible on RAF air photographs. (3)
At Hatton Hall, a small group of enclosures, simple tofts and
crofts adjoining the moated site and fronting onto a narrow
private road leading to the hall, are visible on air photographs.
Hatton was mentioned in 1086. (4)
Immediately adjacent to the moat (SJ 46 SE 4), three or four small
enclosures front onto the lane. Behind each there seems to be a small
and separate area of ridge and furrow which suggests hand-dug beds
within a croft. This is typical of a toft and croft arrangement, and
represents with the moat the centre if not the whole of Hatton. The
extent of the wide and curving ridge and furrow round about seems to
require a considerably larger village, and there may be other toft
and croft sites not yet identified in the vicinity. (5)
SJ 472 611 (FCE). The earthworks east and west of the site of Hatton
Hall are not village remains but a complex of ancillary enclosures
associated with the moated residence (SJ 46 SE 4), evidently devoted
on the basis of field name evidence (6a) to a variety of functions
including service buildings, orchards, paddocks and recreation. The
enclosure boundaries visibly either respect the edges of ridge and
furrow furlongs or cut across them, therefore clearly post-dating
them. Traces of ridge and furrow survive within the enclosures, but
elsewhere the ridges are probably orchard banks as indicated by tree-
holes along their crests. There are indications that the earthworks
formerly continued north and north-east of the moat in the area now
covered by modern farm buildings.
The grid reference cited by authority 1 is in error and lies within
a furlong of ridge and furrow north of the area of earthworks here
described.
Surveyed by RCHME at 1:1000 scale; see plans and level 3 descriptive
text deposited in the NMR. (6) |