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BULLDOZING AND PLOUGHING IN THE FIELD OPPOSITE LAUGHTON HALL REVEALED A REGULAR PATTERN OF STONE DEBRIS, AND MEDIEVAL POTTERY AND GLAZED TILES ASSOCIATED WITH THIS. REPORTED IN 1968. {1}{2}
BELIEVED TO BE PART OF A MOATED SITE AT HALL FARM, BUT MORE LIKELY TO BE PART OF THE MEDIEVAL SHRUNKEN SETTLEMENT REMAINS. THE SHRUNKEN SETTLEMENT REMAINS AT THE EAST END OF LAUGHTON ARE NOW REPRESENTED ENTIRELY BY POTTERY SCATTERS IN ARABLE, SINCE THE FORMER EXTENSIVE EARTHWORKS HAVE BEEN DESTROYED. TAKEN WITH THE PATTERN OF SURVIVING STREETS AND PROPERTIES, THEY SUGGEST AN L-SHAPED SETTLEMENT, PERHAPS WITH A TRIANGULAR GREEN (NOW INFILLED) AT ITS JUNCTION. THE NORTH-SOUTH AXIS HAS THE CHURCH ASSOCIATED WITH IT; THE EAST-WEST AXIS HAS LAUGHTON HALL. DESPITE A SHARP DECLINE IN THE LATE C14 THIS LARGE SETTLEMENT SHOWS NO PERMANENT DECLINE IN THE LONGER TERM. YET IN 1607 IT WAS REPORTED AS THE SCENE OF A 'GREAT DEPOPULACION' AT THE HANDS OF SIR ROGER DALLISON, EXTENDING TO 8 FARMS AND 6 COTTAGES AND CONVERSION OF 300 ACRES OF ARABLE TO PASTURE. TO JUDGE FROM THE POTTERY SCATTERS OF LATER MEDIEVAL AND EARLY POST MEDIEVAL TYPES DATING AT THE LATEST TO THE C17, THIS DEPOPULATION WAS SPECIFIC TO THE EAST-WEST SETTLEMENT AXIS AND PROBABLY LINKED WITH THE AGGRANDISEMENT OF THE DALLISON RESIDENCE, PREDECESSOR OF LAUGHTON HALL. {3}{4}
ALSO MEDIEVAL BOUNDARIES AT THE WEST END OF THE VILLAGE. {5}
THE CROPMARKS WERE LOCATED DURING AN EVALUATION, AND THE LIMITED FINDS FROM THE DITCHES HAVE BEEN DATED TO THE MID-LATE SIXTEENTH TO MID-LATE EIGHTEENTH CENTURIES. A NATURAL STREAM CHANNEL WAS ALSO IDENTIFIED, WHICH CONTAINED A FEW SHERDS OF MEDIEVAL POTTERY DATING TO THE LATE TWELFTH TO MID FOURTEENTH CENTURIES, SUGGESTING ONLY A LIMITED AMOUNT OF ACTIVITY ON THE SITE. {8} | Subjects: | General Archaeology | Temporal: | 1066 - 1539 | Source: | Lincolnshire County Council | Identifier: | http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/Re... | Go to resource |
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