More information : Area centred TA 14341347. Earthworks of a shrunken village. (1-2)
The earthworks consist of ditches, some forming hollow-ways, and
several pond-like features.
Immediately adjoining the present village the earthworks are the
result of shrinkage. Surveyed 1/2500. (3)
TA 145135. Surface finds of 13th-18th century pottery were made in
1966 during drainage and levelling of part of the Shrunken Medieval
Village earthworks. House sites were observed with corner stones and
cobbled areas. (4)
TA 145135 centred. Part of Habrough Shrunken Medieval Village north
and south of Newsham Road, covering about 5 ha. Earthworks south of
road comprise house-sites, toft boundaries and trackways; those to thenorth levelled in 1966, finds in Scunthorpe Museum, acc. code: HA AE.
(See also village remains TA11SE10. Habrough medieval village seems
to have spread from about TA 143134 north east about TA 159144). (5)
The Medieval settlement referred to by the previous authorities was
seen as cropmarks and earthworks, around the present village of
Habrough, and mapped from good quality air photographs. The
remains of tofts and crofts are visible to the north, south and
west of Newsham road centred at TA 1440 1355, TA 1444 1345 and
TA 1424 1348. Trackways are visible between the tofts and crofts.
A number of ponds and/or small quarries in this area may represent
robbed buildings sites. Most of these features have been ploughed
flat and are now visible as cropmarks. A block of ridge and furrow
is visible to the south east, centred at TA 1472 1342. There are
further fragmentary remains of tofts and crofts visible to the
north and east of Chapel road, centred at TA 1449 1384 and TA 1477
1395. Some of these have been built over. More possible crofts
are centred at TA 1480 1420. Ridge and furrow is visible centred
at TA 1469 1378. The settlement remains continue onto the next
1:10,000 sheet (see TA 11 SE 10) but these form a different nuclei
of settlement remains. (Morph No. LI.402.1.1-17)
This description is based on data from the RCHME MORPH2 database.
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