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Description: | COLD HANWORTH WAS CLEARLY ALWAYS A SMALLER THAN AVERAGE SETTLEMENT AND SEEMS NEVER TO HAVE RECOVERED FROM A LATE C14 DECLINE AND PERHAPS SUBSEQUENT ENCLOSURE. THOUGH TWO SHARED ENTRIES WITH HACKTHORN PREVENT A PRECISE CALCULATION OF MINIMUM RECORDED POPULATION IN 1086, IT WAS ALMOST CERTAINLY AT LEAST AS HIGH AS THE LEVEL IN THE EARLY C14. IT HAD NEVERTHELESS BEEN LISTED SEPARATELY RATHER THAN AS A DEPENDENCY IN 1316. THE C15 APPARENTLY SAW LITTLE RECOVERY. THE SURVEY OF DEPOPULATIONS IN 1607 RECORDED THAT ROBERT GRANTHAM HAD ENCLOSED 26 ACRES FOR PASTURE, BUT SLIGHTLY EARLIER GLEBE TERRIERS APPEAR TO SHOW MUCH OF THE PARISH IN CLOSES ALREADY. THE WEST HALF OF THE SITE WAS LEVELLED AND PLOUGHED AFTER 1963, BUT THE PATTERN OF THE FORMER EARTHWORKS CAN BE RECONSTRUCTED FROM APs AND AN OS SURVEY. THE AXIS OF THE VILLAGE SEEMS TO HAVE BEEN AN APPARENTLY MEANDERING WEST-EAST HOLLOW-WAY. SETTLEMENT CLOSES DEFINED BY DITCHES OCCUR ON EITHER SIDE. A POSSIBLE DISJUNCTION BETWEEN THE EAST AND WEST PARTS OF THE REMAINS SUGGESTS THE POSSIBILITY THAT THE WEST PART MARKS AN EXPANSION, PROBABLY PLANNED, FROM A CORE FOCUSED ON THE CHURCH. TO THE EAST OF THE CHURCH TWO DWELLINGS IN SMALL CLOSES LYING OUTSIDE THE MAIN AREA OF EARTHWORKS ARE MARKED ON THE TITHE AND DRAINAGE MAPS OF 1842 AND 1848, BUT NOT ON OS MAPS OF 1883-8. THESE EARLY MAPS ALSO SUGGEST AN EAST-WEST WAY ALONG THE NORTH SIDE OF THE CHURCHYARD, PERHAPS A BACK LANE SIMILAR TO THAT ON THE SOUTH. TO THE SOUTHWEST OF CHURCH FARM THE RIDGE-AND-FURROW HAS BEEN DAMAGED BY LATER EARTHWORKS. THESE TOGETHER WITH CHURCH FARM ARE AWAY FROM THE MAIN CORE OF THE OLD VILLAGE AND POSSIBLY REPRESENT RELATIVELY LATE ACTIVITY. {3}
The scheduling includes the full extent of the surviving earthworks and part of the associated field system of Cold Hanworth. {6} | Subjects: | General Archaeology | Temporal: | 1066 - 1900 | Source: | Lincolnshire County Council | Identifier: | http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/Re... | Go to resource |
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