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Description: | RN 52232
The site of the village of Middle Carlton lay 400m south east of North Carlton in a group of closes with the filed name 'Barton'. The boundary of the rectory lands at Middle Carlton, shown on the tithe map, depicts the north and south edges of the settlement, and presumably preserves the demarcation between North and Middle Carlton. Ploughing has destroyed some of the earthworks. It is extremely difficult to give an account of the tenurial history. {1}
The site of the church is SK 9482 7729 (PRN 52235). House foundations were seen during ploughing in 1953. In 1959 architectural fragments, a grave slab, (possibly from or associated with the church) 11th to 14th century pottery, a 15th century key and a spindle whorl were discovered. {2}{3}{4}
Two hundred sherds of early Saxon pottery were found on the southern fringe of the later settlement during field walking. These sherds together with some middle Saxon and Saxo-Norman wares are suggestive of settlement rather than of a cemetery site. The pottery continuing from the 5th century through to the Saxo-Norman period and onwards suggests a site of continued occupation from the early Anglo-Saxon period through to the medieval period. {12}
It has been suggested that Middle Carlton was entirely deserted in the 14th century, possibly due to devastation by the Black Death. Indeed in 1337 Middle Carlton adults were numbered together with South Carlton for the poll tax. There is also a direct reference in 1398 and 1399 to the church of Middle Carlton having been destitute for 40 years, and these reports may well have been the source of this supposed desertion. It is most likely that Middle Carlton was very small, and in 1428 it was exempt from tax because it contained less that 10 households. However pottery dating all the way through from the 5th century to the 16th century suggests at least some continuing occupation until at least the end of the medieval period. {12}{13}
Two areas of gridded surface collection were undertaken in the a field immediately west of Middle Street, North Carlton. The work was conducted in order to investigate the extent of a deserted medieval village at Middle Carlton. The surface collection produced pottery that reflected the land use of the area since the prehistoric period. Late Saxon and early medieval pottery related to the village of Middle Carlton predominated in the area between the two modern villages of North and South Carlton. {14}{15} | Subjects: | General Archaeology | Temporal: | 450 - 1539 | Source: | Lincolnshire County Council | Identifier: | http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/Re... | Go to resource |
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